STRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR SALE
Here at Chris Bowers, we have a fantastic range of top quality strawberry plants for sale, which are suitable for planting in domestic gardens. The varieties of grow your own strawberry plants which we offer are renowned for their excellent growth properties, and can be planted between the months of June and September. The pot grown strawberry plants for sale have been specially selected to produce the best fruits, which are easy to cultivate whatever the time of year.
PLANTING STRAWBERRIES - A MANAGEABLE TASK
Planting strawberries is becoming more and more popular in the UK, with increasing numbers of people choosing to grow their own fruit. Chris Bowers can make planting strawberries a fruitful and manageable task, and we have a great variety of strawberry plants including autumn strawberry varieties which will give you the results that you are looking for.
GENERAL GUIDE
POT GROWN PLANTS FOR JUNE, JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER PLANTING. The advantage of planting pot grown plants at this time is that they become established well before winter, and each plant will give you a heavy crop the first season. Each plant is individually packed so as to avoid disturbance and the advantages far outweigh the extra cost involved. All plants are hardened off before despatch, so they are ready for immediate planting upon receipt. Plant 15" apart in the row with 24 to 30" between rows.
PLAN YOUR STRAWBERRY PRODUCTION
Fruit Produced | Area for growing | Type of plant |
Late April, early May | Cold greenhouse or windowsill | Plant pot grown plant in pots/ containers during July/August |
All May and early June | Planted outdoors covered with glass cloches or polythene in mid/late February | Plant pot grown plants during July/ August/September |
Normal Crop mid June | Outdoors July /August /September for superb maxim crop in first year | Plant pot grown plants in June to October |
Autumn Crop August to late October | Outdoors | Plant autumn fruiting varieties during autumn or spring. Always pot grown plants |
November/December | Greenhouse at 50°F | Day neutrals in pots/containers |
SPRING PLANTING
Some gardeners prefer to plant in spring and, once again, a pot grown plant is to be preferred. Perpetual varieties (autumn fruiting) will give an excellent crop from August onward when planted in spring, and day neutral varieties 12 weeks after planting.
HEALTH AND QUALITY
All of our propagating stock of the main varieties is ministry certified for trueness to type, health and vigour. Propagating stock of some varieties that are not eligible under the main certification scheme have been inspected and certified for health. The few varieties that are not eligible under either scheme are grown to our same standards of guaranteed health. These are mainly the old or outclassed varieties. Complicated but very effective for the production of a very high quality plant.
Strawberries are despatched from April to late September. Orders placed after 3rd week of Sept will be held over until the next despatch season.
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Soft Fruits
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Tayberries
- Blackcurrants
- Redcurrants
- Whitecurrants
- Gooseberries
- Loganberries
- Blackberries
- Grape Vines
- Virus Tested Rhubarb
- Hybrid Berries
- Blueberries
- Cranberries
- Kiwi Fruit
- Figs
- Hop Vines
Top Fruits
- Introductory Notes
- Supercolumns
- Apples
- Pears
- Cider Apples & Pears
- Asian Pears
- Plums, Gages & Damsons
- Cherry Plum
- Cherries
- Quince
- Medlars
- Peaches & Nectarines
- Apricots
- Mulberries