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will day nuetral strawberries produce first year?
johngreen
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obviously they won't come in well until the second year but I'm just wondering if they will give me at least a bit of berries the first year. I want to put about 50 plants in and build from there. I'll be planting the seascape vartiety
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In early spring I snipped off and planted some runners I potted last autumn, as well as some tiny plants bought from Homebase a month or two ago, and to my surprise both have grown rapidly and are flowering very well, and should give a worthwhile crop, assuming all goes well. I really did not expect anything like the number of flowers, perhaps the warm sunny weather is the key. I think most if not all of mine are Cambridge Favourite i.e. Summer fruiting. So my uninformed guess is that you might get a modest crop later in the year. Obviously feed and water them.
Johngreen, yes you will get crops in the first year with day-neutral strawberries. No need to remove flowers in their first year like normal types. As you are growing 50 of them, you should have useful amounts of fruit from June onwards.
Okay thanks guys. I'm going with Seascape, a canadian blend. Been a nice warm spring here so far. Usually we don't plant till mid may but I just put some watermelon seedlings into my garden and planted a bunch of seeds