Strawberries
|
Who among us does not adore Strawberries? We remember warm summer afternoons, hiking through summer fields and gathering wild Strawberries as children (and trying not to eat them all before we got home). Now, with a bit of patience, you can grow this precious berry from seed in your own garden! Best used in desserts, salad or fresh out of the garden and popped in your mouth, Strawberries may also be frozen for later use in sauces, tarts or pies and canned in jams, jellies and compotes. To get a little crop the first year, start Strawberries 16 weeks before the last frost date and raise as transplants.
Average seed life: 1 to 2 years
| |
#5110 Fresca Strawberries
The only variety that we know of to produce
traditional, full-sized berries from seed, Fresca
Strawberries are luscious, juicy and sweet. Bred in the US
by one of the leading seed houses, this wonderful, new,
everbearing variety is both early and long-blooming. It will
produce delicious, firm, brilliant red berries all summer
long. How can we avoid sounding like Bubba on Forrest Gump?
You’ve got your strawberry soup, strawberry shortcake,
strawberries and cream, strawberry bread, strawberry and
rhubarb pie, strawberry jam, strawberry butter, strawberry
trifle, strawberry ice cream, chocolate covered
strawberries, strawberry juice, strawberry wine punch,
strawberry-ginger-orange compote, strawberry pina coladas,
strawberry crepes with creme anglaise, Karen’s Strawberry
Spinach Salad.... (OP.)
Packet of 20 Seeds / $3.95
|
| | |
#5120 Red Wonder Alpine Strawberries
Also called Fraises des Bois, tasty Alpine Strawberries are
miniature cousins of the regular Strawberry. Easier to grow
and often considered to be sweeter than regular varieties,
they reproduce and spread by seed rather than by runners.
Alpine Strawberries perpetually bear fruit through a good
part of the summer as long as they are watered regularly in
times of low rainfall and protected from furry and feathered
sweet-toothed thieves. Only growing 6” to 8” tall, they can
be used as a border plant or as an edible ground cover.
Taste-test to determine ripeness so that you can familiarize
yourself with the optimum harvest moment. The fact that
these delicious gems do not store well will never be a
problem since they are usually gobbled up immediately. Hardy
perennial. (OP.)
Red Wonder Alpine Strawberries
This glorious, little red gem is a true delicacy.
Packet of 1000 Seeds / $3.65
|
| | |
#5125 Yellow Wonder Alpine Strawberries
Also called Fraises des Bois, tasty Alpine Strawberries are
miniature cousins of the regular Strawberry. Easier to grow
and often considered to be sweeter than regular varieties,
they reproduce and spread by seed rather than by runners.
Alpine Strawberries perpetually bear fruit through a good
part of the summer as long as they are watered regularly in
times of low rainfall and protected from furry and feathered
sweet-toothed thieves. Only growing 6” to 8” tall, they can
be used as a border plant or as an edible ground cover.
Taste-test to determine ripeness so that you can familiarize
yourself with the optimum harvest moment. The fact that
these delicious gems do not store well will never be a
problem since they are usually gobbled up immediately. Hardy
perennial. (OP.)
Yellow Wonder Alpine Strawberries
This glowing whitish-yellow berry does not attract
birds. Some say that Yellow Wonder is even better than the
Red!
Packet of 1000 Seeds / $3.65
|
|
|
