Okay, I genuinely believe that everything that can be grown at home. If you’re interested in expanding your veggie and herb garden to fruit I recommend starting with strawberries. Strawberries are an AMAZING container garden fruit, not to mention they’re a classic fruit that most love. Here are a few of my tricks to growing strawberries nearly all year long.

Containers that are off the ground! Those cute little bundles of leaves will produce flowers that will develop strawberries. The stems behind the flowers can grow to 4 to 6 inches long and will cause those berries to hang low and out of the container. Keeping the strawberries on the ground make for easy snatching from small pests but also easy to miss or step on. Keep these cuties in the air! They like to hang!

Ever-baring! Like all food producing plants strawberries come in different varieties. I prefer ever-baring varieties so that I can harvest strawberries throughout the spring, summer and fall. A pretty popular ever-baring strawberry variety is Ozark Beauty. Be sure to grab this one!

Regular Feeding Schedule! Once the garden gets big and a little wild I can get distracted by all of the other garden tasks that need attention. When I get off schedule with feeding the plants everyone seems to be okay but my strawberries. They tend to slow in production when I get off the feeding schedule but perk back up to producing berries when they get the love they need. 

Let’s grow!