On the whole, it’s best to start growing strawberry plants in your garden in the spring. Therefore, if you have any strawberry runners or seeds available, it’s probably a good idea to get them in the ground in the autumn.
Many people choose to start them in the spring, though this will normally be the case if you are growing from seeds, rather than runners.
The earlier in the better, really, though there’s no harm in getting them going during mid spring, either. What you’re really going to need to make sure of, and this is regardless of the varieties or options you have available, is to give your fruit plants plenty of water.
This will help to get them big and strong in time for the summer. Once planted and once you are starting to see progress from early spring onwards, it might be a good idea to start fertilising them.
However, finding the best fertiliser can be tricky. That’s perhaps a topic for a different guide! Let’s keep this write-up on the medium side of things!
No matter when you plant your strawberry plants (hint – again, it’s early to mid spring!), you should always be very careful to avoid getting too much water on any new fruit. Otherwise, you could actually be making your strawberries prone to nasty diseases. Naturally, that’s something you’re going to want to avoid time and again, long after your seeds start taking root.
It’s worth doing a bit of research into this. In our own collective experience, you’ll be able to get a good crop of sweet strawberries from seeds in spring planting and growth, for a summertime harvest. However, runners will probably do best taking root in the colder months. Experiment and see – early or late, it’s a pretty variable equation.