You Garden - Strawberry Plants 'Sweet Colossus', 12 Pack of Giant Strawberries, Plug Plants, Grow Your Own, King Sized Fruit

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Make sure you keep your strawberry plants well watered during hot, dry periods, and once they’ve finished fruiting, remove netting and mulch from around the plants to encourage air circulation and reduce the risk of pests making their homes there. How to make strawberry plants produce more fruit Certified runners are best planted around 30 – 40 cm apart, this allows for good growth and good air flow which helps prevent many diseases. Growing strawberries from seed takes a little bit of patience because they take up to a month to germinate and will usually crop the following year. Nevertheless, this is a good way to grow more unusual varieties that aren't available as plants. A particular favourite, 'Florian', has pink flowers and produces fruit both on the parent plant and the runners, making it ideal for hanging baskets. How to grow strawberries indoors

I have a lot of sawdust laid down as a mulch (we also use straw), and it has helped a lot to keep the weeds down.Weeding and regular watering are all that are needed. Early each spring, I top dress the plants with a shovel full of compost.One way to get plenty of strawberries all summer long is to plant summer-cropping varieties along with so-called ever-bearers. Summer-cropping strawberry plants produce heavy harvests over a short two to three week period, and ever-bearers produce multiple smaller harvests from early summer right through to the autumn. If you don't have a greenhouse or polytunnel, placing a cloche over your outdoor strawberry plants in February can advance ripening by up to three weeks. These plants usually remain in the same spot two years in a row. Then we recommend creating a new bed in a different place with young plants. Strawberries also grow well in pots and planters, but you need to store them in a cool frost-free area for the winter. You can propagate from especially good plants at this time of year too. Pin the first plantlet on a good, healthy runner into a pot of compost. Once it is rooted, detach the runner from the parent plant. Late summer and early autumn are the best time to plant these new strawberries into new beds. They’ll establish well at that time of year and produce a crop next summer. The massive berries that arise from this stunning new variety could be the largest strawberries ever and unlike some other 'king sized ' fruits they are simply bursting with flavour too.

Grow your own delicious strawberries. Planted before the end of July, you will reap your first harvest this summer! This collection consists of 18 summer fruiting strawberry plants, 6 each of the following:Summer-fruiting strawberries – these are the most popular type and produce the largest fruit. They have a short but heavy cropping period of two or three weeks. There are early-, mid- and late-fruiting cultivars, cropping from early to mid-summer. If covered with cloches or grown in a greenhouse from late winter, they will provide even earlier harvests. Generally around 25 plants is sufficient, although even a few plants in a strawberry planter can provide some wonderful fruit. Sweet Colossus is a traditional June bearing strawberry so will yield most of it's bountiful harvest in early summer. The conical berries are sweet and juicy and often weigh more than 40g each. You'll get plenty of them too so overall yields will be very rewarding. Raised from a cross between Gariguette and a selection with Mara des Bois in its pedigree, it is little surprise that this new French variety has outstanding flavour. The berries have a distinctive aroma and the flavour is incredibly sweet. The plants are heavy cropping and have good resistance to powdery mildew, verticillium wilt, crown rot and red core.