How to plant and grow everbearing strawberries in a strawberry jar.

1. Hi Gardening Friends

How to plant and grow everbearing or day neutral strawberries in a strawberry jar.

This is what you do to be successful with growing everbearing strawberries in a strawberry jar. First you need to go out and buy a clay strawberry jar and some good potting soil. You can buy some potting soil that is good for growing in containers or pots like Miracle Gro potting soil or Pro Mix potting soil. Also you need to buy some strawberries plants unless you would like to buy seed and grow your strawberries from seed.Here is a name of a strawberry from seed the strawberry is called Fresca it is 84 days from seed it is (12in/30cm)

Produces fruit that is medium size fresh berries that are four weeks earlier

than the variety called sweetheart - the first summer to fall continues fruitbearing strawberry. These Fresca strawberries are perennials.

You can grow these strawberries from seed. You should start your seeds 12 weeks before you want to plant your strawberries from seed. So that they would be ready to plant into the strawberry jar at the end of May when you would want to plant them into your strawberry jar. The first thing to do if you

want to start strawberries from seeds is to count back from the end of May

12 weeks and that is when you would start the strawberries from seed.

What you need to start strawberries from seeds is a clean flat for germinating the seeds in. Next you need a good germinating mix to put into the flat and start the seed in. Now take the flat and fill the flat half full of the germinating mix and then take the flat and soak it with water and let it set and drain on the

propagating bench. Then after you let the flat drain you can sow the strawberry seeds. What I said about the above starting seeds is for starting all kind of seeds besides just starting strawberries seeds.

After the strawberry seedlings were 3 to 4 leaves you can transplant then into

the strawberry jar.

Now take your strawberry jar and cover the bottom of the hole inside the jar with a piece of

a old broken clay pot. Then fill the strawberry jar with soil to the bottom of

the first holes in the jar. Now take and plant your strawberry plants

in the bottom holes of your strawberry jar. Then repeat the process

until the jar is filled to the top of the pot. Then take the jar and water it

completely and keep it water until the strawberries are well establish.

Here is some more everbearing strawberries that you can grow in a strawberry jar.

a. Ozark Beauty (Everbearing)

These strawberries are high-yielding and they have mouth watering flavor.

They are excellent berries for preserves or freezing.

They are large and red in color.

b. Jewel (Day Neutral)

These berries are large and juicy and they have superb flavor and quality and textural.

c. Festival (Day Neutral)

These strawberries have excellent flavor with deep red,glossy fruit.

The plants produces large ,firm strawberries with high yields.

I hope everyone would try this and enjoy growing strawberries in a strawberry jar. Would you also let me know if this information on growing strawberries

was very helpful to you? Well good luck and Happy Gardening!

Gardener Den

What are everbearing strawberries?

Everbearing strawberries are ones that produces the largest berries in June

and a second crop in August through frost.

What are Day Neutral Strawberries?

Day Neutral Strawberries produces a heavy crop in June and followed by a continual harvest until frost. They will bear more if watered frequently in summer months.

Were you can get Fresca Strawberries seeds?

Stokes Seeds Inc.

Box 548

Buffalo,New York 14240-0548

Tel: 1-800-263-7233

web site www.stokeseeds.com

Were to get Strawberries plants from?

Burpee

W.Atlee Burpee & Co.

Warminster,Pa 18974

Tel: 1-800-888-1447

Web Site: www.burpee.com

NEW! Constant Fruiting Strawberries

They are Plant Patented varieties.

Eversweet: Which produces very firm,large,sweet berries.

Eversweet Always has fruit in different stages of develoment

so you will always have some strawberries that are getting ripe.

Albion These strawberries are great for growing in strawberry jars,hanging baskets

and Al's Flower pouches.

Were to order these kind of strawberry plants.

.K.van Bourgondien & Sons, Inc.

P.O. Box 2000

Virginia Beach,VA 23450-2000

With the way this past February 2010 was with all the heavy snow in the northeast and across

the country. You are probably saying what should I have done to protect my strawberry

jar from the extreme weather? Well first of all in the fall when the weather was getting colder

if you have a sun porch or a sunny window you can bring the jar with the strawberries plants

inside for the winter and keep the plants growing and you may get lucky and have strawberries inside. I think that the way the weather haves been that this is the only way to keep the strawberries plants alive and the strawberry jar from cracking from the extreme weather we had this past winter. You have the jar in a heated area so you should fertilize and water like you did when they were outdoors and you should be getting some strawberries indoors to. So I hope this helps all my gardening friends.