Strawberries

How to Grow Strawberries that Taste Wonderful
Growing Strawberries for Real Flavor!
Those red things you can buy in the supermarket in winter do not taste like real strawberries. Growing strawberries yourself is a great way to get that real, old-fashioned strawberry flavor - and it's easy to do wherever you live, even in an apartment! On this page I'll cover picking a location, preparing the soil, buying or growing young plants, planting strawberries (including when to plant), and growing strawberries in pots.

Make a Raised Strawberry Bed
Growing Strawberries in a Raised Bed
A well planned strawberry patch can gives years of pleasure as well as tasty fruit. Putting them in a raised bed, makes it easy to tend the plants and pick the berries. It also overcomes any problems with poor soil and drainage. Here's advice to set up your own raised strawberry patch. Several of my sisters have raised strawberry beds. One used landscape timbers and another used concrete blocks to construct the raised planting area. Photo by Virginia Allain

What's Eating the Strawberry Plants
Missing Strawberries, Nibbled Strawberries, Holes in Leaves - Something Is Eating the Strawberries
It's disheartening to start a strawberry patch and eagerly wait to pick those first berries, only to find out that some garden pest beat you to that juicy strawberry. Before you can take action to prevent the loss of your strawberries or the strawberry plants, you need to figure out what is eating them. I'll show you what to look for, so you can determine which pest is pestering you and your plants. I'll also provide some deterrents, both humane and more lethal, so you can choose a way to sa...

Strawberry Decor
Strawberry Fields Forever
Everybody probably has some sort of design motif that is their favorite, whether it derives from its colors, or shape, or other connection to memory or loved object. Maybe a motif is as simple as a pattern that has an unconscious resonance for us with harmonies in nature. For me, I somehow have always loved strawberry plant designs. I even gravitate toward the red, green and white color combination in home decor choices as a sort of default. This lens is for all those, who like me, love the...

Strawberries
My childhood memories are filled with images of strawberry fields we once owned. We stopped growing strawberries (on a big scale) but the love to those mouthwatering fruit stayed. In pancakes at breakfast, as preserves on bread at lunch, sliced over a salad for dinner and atop shortcake for dessert, the strawberry works overtime! They are not only delicious but also very healthy. Here you can find (almost) everything about strawberries, from how to grow them, through health benefits, to fun f...