If you're a strawberry lover, perhaps you've fantasized about growing your own strawberries in the backyard. One of the most basic questions for beginners concerns where to grow the plants. Growing ...

I enjoy browsing the produce departments of grocery stores, especially when vegetables and fruits aren’t ready yet in our own backyard gardens. But I must admit I’m disappointed in the quality of ...

Strawberries thrive in containers thanks to their shallow roots. Strawberries are a fantastic choice for container gardening. Their compact, fast-growing nature lets you enjoy fresh berries in small ...

Timing is important with bare root plants. They should be planted soon after arriving and never left to dry out. Once in the ground, watering is essential to settle the soil around the roots, even if ...

Who can resist a fresh strawberry? Even better is picking the strawberry from your own garden. There are many reasons to grow your own plants. Strawberries are small, attractive ground plants, are ...

The third week of February and it is time to start planting — but not everything can go into the ground. It still is too cold and early to set out annuals, plant most new perennials or to seed a new ...

Plucking summer strawberry fruits might be a gardener’s reverie on a December rainy day, but this time of year it is time to get started with planting. Bare root strawberries are available this month ...

Companion plants can be grown in such a way that each plant supports the other. Strawberries, as it happens, are friends with ...

Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden wish for 2025? Bare root fruit trees, ...

Q: We live in the fog belt in San Francisco (in the Ingleside neighborhood south of Ocean). Are we able to grow strawberries? A: Strawberries, like many gardeners living in the path of our cold summer ...

When it comes to popular fruits, strawberries are often at the top of the list. Growing strawberries isn’t quite as easy here in Central Florida because we don’t receive many chilling hours each ...