White Alpine Strawberries

Ok this will be a lil journal maybe weekly progress of them if I can remember.

First time growing anything except weeds in the garden so wasnt expecting much. Dry shallow chalky soils which I dont think strawberries particularly like... But wet climate working in my favour.

I read strawberries fruit in 2nd or third year and indeed the regular strawberry plant I have has no flowers.




(bad attempt at the weed membrane, I have more but obviously wanna wait til these are done before re-lifting etc)

No flowers but has been sending out a lot of runners, so I got a free plant or two



But now the white alpines are different in all ways apparently. It doesnt send out runners (sad face) but apparently flowers first year... So these were planted out in... whenever like april I sprouted em from slow ass seed.

Cute berries





2nd plant. 10 berries/flowers in total. Ill update and show you all what they look like during ripening because this is new to me and hopefully you too!

uuuummm strawberries. growing up my dad had about 2 acres of them, guess what I got to do on my summer vacations? hope everything works out for ya, no pest no rot.

I've grown white strawberries before, they were really slow growing, but the birds didn't steal your crop. Good luck!

slowandsteady said:

uuuummm strawberries. growing up my dad had about 2 acres of them, guess what I got to do on my summer vacations? hope everything works out for ya, no pest no rot.

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lol yeah id like a few more than 2 plants flowering but maybe not 2 acres lol.

NorStar said:

I've grown white strawberries before, they were really slow growing, but the birds didn't steal your crop. Good luck!

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yeah i read that, which is good because i have a family of collared doves living in my garden... see them tearing up the lawn seed. If its not them itll be the slugs...


leaves were crowding up the place so im "lsting" a bit in the middle pic, will hopefully get a bit more airflow round the fruit

i transplanted the other one to this barrel i have




<--- the leaves on my 1 regular strawberry plant are crap. so tough you can invert them they keep their shape. what gives? havent fed them anything particularly but what do they need? almost looks like too much N with the dark green there

i saw slug slime on a couple of the strawberrys, threw down some eggshells, some sisal - in vain. you see they got the bottom of that one on the right ._. the biggest. shall i just use pellets?