Backyard strawberries are wonderful for each masking the bottom and for rising fruit. If you happen to’re planning out a forest backyard, or are simply searching for a plant to make use of as floor cowl, strawberries are a fantastic possibility.
The next is an excerpt from The House-Scale Forest Backyard by Dani Baker. It has been tailored for the online.
Rising Backyard Strawberries: Floor Covers
A primary precept of perennial gardening is to maintain the bottom coated with one thing, ideally one thing dwelling, all over the place and all the time. Floor cowl helps modulate soil temperature, soak up and protect moisture, and nurture soil life.
Most of the vegetation described on this chapter can carry out these capabilities for you admirably whereas concurrently supplying nutritious edibles, attracting helpful bugs, and enhancing the aesthetics of your panorama.
As you study my expertise with every, I’m assured you will discover some which might be suited to your backyard imaginative and prescient and habitats.
I’m keen on strawberries as a floor cowl, significantly the everbearing varieties. These low-growing vegetation flower and fruit all through the rising season, starting in June.
Some produce berries in prodigious quantities whereas others present a pleasant nibble as I wander via the backyard.
Backyard Strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa)
Native Vary: Temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere GC
Top: 6 to 10 inches (15–25 cm)
Unfold: Varies by kind
Soil Situations: Moist however well-drained soil Daylight: Prefers full solar
USDA Hardiness Zones: 3 to 9, relying on kind