Strawberry — Fruit

Fragaria x ananassa

Full sun, moderate watering — fully hardy.

Photograph of Strawberry — iNaturalist / GBIF

Plant out: Aug–Sep
Harvest: Jun
In flower: May, Jun

Sun: Full sun
Water: Medium
Difficulty: Demanding
Hardiness: H6
Season: spring
Height: 10–50 cm
Spacing: 100 cm
Pets: Safe around pets
Bee friendly: Bee friendly

Grows well with

Borage — A two-year field trial put borage and other flowers in a strip beside strawberries: the further the plants were from that strip, the fewer pollinators and the lighter the berries. Borage is also said to keep pests off the strawberries.Garlic — Plant garlic among your strawberries, cut it down and spread the chopped leaves over the bed every couple of weeks: the scent is meant to keep greenfly off the fruit.Lettuce — Strawberries are named as a good neighbour for lettuce. Mixing unlike crops is held to help them along, partly because the scents put feeding pests off.

Growing notes

Grows to 0.1-0.5 metres. Space about 50-100cm apart. In flower May-Jun.