Growing Strawberries Garden (Sequoia)

This page gives instructions and pictures about Growing Strawberries Garden. Vegetable Gardening Made Easier is using the Sequoia Strawberry, pictured at the right, as its model. I bought these at my local hardware store as plants.

After starting some from seed this year (Fall 2009), I have decided that buying the plants is the best way to go.

The Sequoia is a Junebearing type. It is one of the sweetest and juiciest of the Junebearing strawberries! Provides loads of fresh berries starting in early spring here in San Antonio.

Strawberries are an easy-to-grow fruit with each plant capable of producing a quart a year.

There are several types of strawberries. One is the Junebearing which will ripen a crop over a week to ten days in spring.

This makes this plant good for making preserves.

And speaking of preserves visit my good friends at all-strawberries to find the best "strawberry recipes" for preserving and enjoying fresh and frozen strawberries.

The other is the Ever-bearing strawberry which will produce two crops, one in spring and one later in the fall.

Almost all cultivators are self-pollinating. They reproduce by creating runners that shoot out from the main plant to form a new plant. With this in mind, make sure you do not put down a mulch that will prevent the runners from growing and spreading.

Some of the benefits of strawberries are:

Rubbing an open strawberry on your teeth and gums will help remove tartar.

Strawberries are rich in fiber helping the body to absorb nutrients.

Strawberries are good for diabetics, as they help stabilize the sugar level of the blood.

Strawberries are said to help regulate blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart problems.

Strawberries have been associated with reducing the production of cholesterol in the liver.

Strawberries have been known to help the body in eliminating harmful toxins.

The potassium in strawberries helps lower the risk of stroke.

Spring 2009Below are a couple of pictures of my Growing Strawberries Garden.

My plants are growing well. They are creating their own runners which are putting on more flowers and producing more strawberries.

One thing to keep in mind is not to plant strawberries where tomatoes, potatoes, peppers or eggplant have been grown in the past several years.

These plants carry the root rot fungus Verticillium, which attacks strawberry plants. Do not plant strawberries into recently plowed grassy areas. This can lead to devastating weed problems and damage by white grubs. The white grubs will feed on the roots and damage the plants.

In the picture below are runners created by the strawberry plant. This is one way that the reproduce. The other is by seed.

09-21-09

The pictures below are of my strawberry bed. The plant shown has a lot of runners on it. I will dig up the entire plant, cut the runners off and plant both.

In the next picture is my re-worked strawberry bed. We have taken nine plants and turned them into many. We have increased the size of our strawberry patch.

And I might add that the soil is in very good condition due to the worms being at work in the soil. They have really done a good job of loosening up the soil.

Next spring we should have a lot of strawberries.

Growing Strawberries Garden is a lot of work, but it is well worth the effort when eating the delicious fruits.

Of all the fruits one can grow, the strawberry is the easiest.

10-18-09

Below is an updated photo of the Sequia strawberry patch.

April 2010

Below is my first strawberry of the 2010 season. It was nice and juicy. I have put up bird netting so hopefully this year I will get more than the birds do.

For more on Growing Strawberries Garden visit Growingn Strawberry Plants where we talk about diseases and pests.

Also see Growing Alpine Strawberries and last of all Growing Strawberries from Seeds where we have actually planted some seeds to see how well we could get the plants to grow. Some have taken off nicely. Others have not.

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