How to Grow Strawberries From the Seed

Planting & Harvesting Strawberries

Learning how to grow strawberries from seeds may not be as difficult as you think. A lot of people shy away from growing fruit like strawberries and blueberries, because they think there’s too much work to do for it to be worth the result.

This isn’t true.

Growing strawberries is nearly effortless, and the strawberry seeds you begin with will yield up to an entire quart (under ideal conditions) of strawberries each year for many, many years to come.

Did you know that there are three different types of strawberry that you can grow? They include:

June bearing
Ever bearing
Day neutral

Depending on how often you want your strawberry plants to produce fruit and how much space you have, you’ll choose one of the three plants to work with as you learn how to grow strawberries.

Yes, learning how to plant strawberries is easy, but that doesn’t mean you don’t need to know what you’re doing. The planting and maintaining process is fairly simple, but you still have to do it.

Below, we’ll take a look at a brief guide that details how to grow strawberries from seeds so that you can have the best fruit possible every harvest season for as long as you them.

How to Grow Strawberries From Seeds Tutorial

Here’s a rundown of the step you need to follow to successfully plant, grow, and harvest your strawberry seeds:

Find the right location. You need a space with lots of drainage and that gets plenty (at least six hours a day) of direct sunlight.
Make sure to till the garden bed at least 12 inches deep. Get rid of weeds, roots, grass, and other materials when you do this.
The hole you dig for every plant or seed should be about seven inches wide. Using the matted row method for planting, keep the plants or seeds 18 inches apart in rows that are three to four feet away from each other.
Be sure to cut off each and every runner that appears. This helps keep the plant’s growing energies focused on the main task of bearing edible fruit.
Your strawberry plants should get about an inch of water per week.
The very day they ripen, strawberries should be picked. These fruit tend to over ripen quickly, so be on the lookout.
- The first year, you should let your strawberry plants develop fruit. Pinch off the blossoms as they appear to ensure that you will have a great harvest the second season. Otherwise you might be looking at a stunted season.
- An exception to the previous hint is the “œever bearing” strawberry. They will be strong enough to produce great fruit their first year out.
- If you’re buying your strawberry plants from a nursery or a catalog, make sure they are labeled as being “œdisease free.” This will make your life much easier in the long run.

And that’s it! Once you get them in the ground, learning how to grow strawberries from seeds is one of the easiest things you can do in the garden.