Plant These 5 Perennials NOW For Insanely EARLY Spring Harvests!
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In this video, I share 5 early fruiting perennials you must grow for the earliest spring harvests possible! Waiting for that first big harvest of the new growing season can feel like an eternity after a long winter. These perennials cut the line and produce immediately in spring with little to no waiting! Plant these 5 perennials now for insanely early spring harvests each year!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Earliest Fruits For Temperate Climates
3:29 Early Perennial #1
5:36 Early Perennial #2
8:51 Early Perennial #3
11:56 Early Perennials #4 & #5
16:28 Early Perennial #5
20:48 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about growing early fruits in your yard and garden, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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0:00 Earliest Fruits For Temperate Climates
3:29 Early Perennial #1
5:36 Early Perennial #2
8:51 Early Perennial #3
11:56 Early Perennials #4 & #5
16:28 Early Perennial #5
20:48 Adventures With Dale
I once ate so much homegrown asparagus I thought I was going to die.
It's really good, but it's a ton of fiber. I could see that being rough in the belly 😂
LOL
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I'll always remember rajon rondo clubbing you in the face at the end of game 5 in 2009
Just added 3 new fall gold rasberries, 3 new blueberries, 200 new strawberries, & 2 new apple trees to my little mini orchard. I already had a handful of fruit trees & berry bushes, but I add more each year, so its not too hard on my budget.
I bought so many strawberries because i hope to have enough to sell them by the quart at my farmers market.
Excellent work! That's a lot of strawberries 😮
I'm in zone 8a, already picking asparagus, just a few make it inside because i love eating them right away! My blueberries have so many flowers the bees are going crazy, dive bombing me as i walk by! My carrots, potatoes and green beans are coming up, i feel like a sprinter with planting time just 2-3 weeks away, running out of room in my seedling room. Love growing and eating veggies and fruit straight from the garden
Like spring eating too! My best foodie season, next to tomato time. Separate category LOL
Jealous from zone 6
@@kat517 I'm with you in solidarity in zone 6. 😢
I planted asparagus seeds in spring of 2021.. this is the first year I am able to harvest some!! I got 5 spears so far and cannot wait to eat them! ❤ I am only picking the ones the size of a pencil or larger so had to let a lot stay but I don’t care haha it worth the wait to know I will have these for the next 20 years!! ❤❤
And I am zone 7b… my strawberry plants are coming alive now too! Got both June and everbearing to try and get them more often and not just all at once
Are you eating them raw on an empty stomach? 😅
I just laughed when you mentioned your cold winter nights. I'm in zone 4 and those are our highs for the day right now. That makes early harvest all the more important to me though, so I will be adding more of the varieties you mentioned. Thanks for the information!
I need to up my berry game
If you are in zone 7 or lower you can also plant Honeyberries (or Haskaps) and Serviceberries that also fruit very early in the spring. The advantage of these is they don't need acidic soil like blueberries.
I saw your Pineapple Guava and I just planted two of them. My (wild) blackberry patch is blooming here on the zone 8b/9a line in Louisiana and my year old fig tree is leafing out. Danvers carrots I planted in my garden two weeks ago sprouted in 5 days. I took a chance and planted early Sugarbaby watermelons, cucumbers, green beans, sunflowers for the birds & bees, and I still need to make an asparagus bed for my Mary Washington seeds and artichokes. I planted all my new fruit trees (figs & mulberry) several days ago and have mowed twice. I add all my grass clippings around my fruit trees and in my garden. I started everbearing strawberries this year too. Feeling a bit overwhelmed because the seasons change so rapidly here. I`m still building my garden from forest soil and even though I want to do it all in record time I can`t. I stayed up all night hauling in dirt in my garden wagon.
I think you're going to like the pineapple guava. It's very interesting. It tastes like nothing else. It's very easy to grow and manage.
It sounds like you are a bit overwhelmed? I have to make lists and tackle a few things each day. It does eventually get done, but if I don't spread it all out, it can feel pretty daunting.
Mine are doing ok so far...starting to grow. I planted them near my outdoor power outlets and near my camper so I can protect them with a covering and warm them with lights if we get a very bad freeze next year again. I have ways to protect most of my young fig trees too with coverings and portable solar power stations running 10 watt LED lights. I can also put heated jugs of water under the coverings just to be sure they`re not damaged.@@TheMillennialGardener
sounds great!
I'd ban this comment.
I swear I'm just an every now and then viewer due to my schedule, but I just have to say you are so freaking amazing in detail for us gardeners. We are so blessed to have such an awesome Gardner like you. And I have several gardening gurus that I follow and appreciate in different areas but you cover everything and you're just amazing. I appreciate you.
I’m following you from southern Ontario, Canada. I think we are zone 5. Everything you say is so true for us, just much later. Looking forward to seeing our asparagus come up, and our strawberry blossoms. Thank you for another great video.
Fingers crossed that my asparagus survived. Planted from seed or seed starts last year, and while my strawberries are looking green but not blooming yet, but no signs of Life from the asparagus yet.
I think Dale needs a little brother to play with…now there’s an adventure😊 I can’t get over how tidy and put together your garden looks, mine is just a crazed mess, but productive nonetheless. Hugs from California❤
I like to grow June bearing and everbearing strawberries. I don’t make jam but just love having large amounts in the spring for snacking. They grow great in my greenstalk. No pest or slug pressure.
I enjoyed the video. Viewers need to know that blueberries need acidic soil around 4.5-5.o on the ph scale. I didn't know that and I killed last year's planting. Now I've added ammonium sulfate to the soil to help with the issue and planted a Duke blueberry. Actually 2 of them because the pot had 2 in it that were conjoined, but I cut them apart since each side had roots. Fast forward 2 weeks and they both seem to still be alive.
use elemental sulfur, or your Blueberries will taste like cat piss
Thanks for clarifying the difference between a primocane and floricane related to blackberries. After viewing this video, I plan to grow asparagus this year. Your videos are a great learning resource, and you explain things very well. I appreciate the information.
Outstanding! I linked to a video in the description that will show you how to plant asparagus crowns, and also I have links in the video description from where I bought mine. I recommend Hand Picked Nursery. He's local to me in NC about 2 hours away and it's a veteran owned company as far as I know.
@@TheMillennialGardener Great. Thank you.
The description of primocane and floricane is partially correct. What TMG refers to as a floricane growing off of the primocane is actually a flowering lateral shoot off the floricane. The two terms designate the season in which a particular cane grew from the crown. Either the current season (primo) or previous season (flori).
1. All canes grow from the crown at the base of the bush.
2. Primocane is any new cane that grows from the crown in the current season.
3. Floricane is the old cane that grew from the crown in the previous season.
4. Only floricanes will grow new lateral shoots in the current season that flower and produce fruit.
5. After fruiting, the entire floricane is pruned back to the crown and current season's primocanes will become next season's floricanes.
It's a bit confusing. Dr Arlie Powell has two good videos on how to wire trellis and manage primocanes and floricanes and covers this stuff.
TMG has a great channel none the less! Bone meal really works.
@@crawfish7286 Thanks for your information. Great explanation.
I built my 4 pear tree espalier last year thanks to you videos I appreciate the detailed and easy to understand pointers. Thanks!
Already been eating my asparagus (western nc). Yummmmm
Me too!
That's early!
Zone 8b represent!
Thank you for making this video! Dale is adorable, as usual! 😊👍👍
You're welcome! Dale is an interesting guy 😄
I'm in Oklahoma City zone 7b and I grow in raised beds. I'm already eating fresh asparagus! Love your videos and Dale!!!
Yep...just ate some of my "garden fresh" asparagus with SNAP today.
As a fellow 910 leech I’d love to gain a green thumb like you
2 years of owning a home and every season I procrastinate
I got all the wood to build garden beds but I procrastinate every year
Hoping to run into you around here one day!
Also your dog is beautiful 🐕
Dogs are the best!
I bought PA Freedom blackberries and purple asparagus( 2year crowns) from " Hand Picked Nursery ". They sent me 4 tiny sick rooted cuttings with rust on them. And 1 year asparagus crowns Instead of 2 year. And they were moldy.
I am 8b in Texas. I have been eating asparagus for over a week.
Blueberries are on my need to grow list.
They're a must! And they'll fit practically anywhere. They make great shrubs around the house.
@@TheMillennialGardener I had one flowering in my laundry room with no pollinators last winter... I paintbrushed it... No berries... 🥲
Heritage Raspberry is big, prolific and delicious
I have a dwarf mulberry but grow taller probably 14 ft. I cut it this year so it would be easy for me to harvest. I saved some cuttings to grow more and they are growing fruit now even if they are short and growing in a cup. 😂 I’m thinking of growing more of them as a hedge if my husband will allow me because the birds love to eat them too and most of the time they left me with only a few to try. I bought more raspberries this year and blueberries from Costco. I planted peaches, plums, apples, cherries and blueberries last year and planned to harvest some fruits every couple of months. This year I planted more peas than I planted in years. All my raise beds have peas because I learned that peas are good cover crop and since I have so many seeds in different varieties then I might as well eat the fruit too before leaving them in the soil for the next crop to use. We love peas but can only grow them in spring because they die in the summer heat here.
You'r so awesome. Really appreciate all you do to educate us.
Hope you have a wonderful gardening experience this year.
Do i pick my flowers on my strawberrys
Some of my early blueberries and honeyberries are blooming, I’m in zone 7a 😌
I live on a postage stamp yet I have a 3 x 8 raised bed of asparagus that is producing like mad right now.
I enjoy your RUclips videos. They're well informative
I have all of these! Maybe different varieties, but the same types. Asparagus grows really well here in MA, and the town of Hadley near Umass actually has an asparagus festival! I love watching all of the shoots come up every year! I plant everbearing strawberries in my containers and June bearing in my beds. The containers are somewhat helpful at keeping the hungry bunnies away since my dog no longer scares them away! I have a large stand of blackberry that grows like weeds here and produces gallons of berries every June through August! I'm thinking of giving the yellow raspberries a try, I have one space left to put them. I have awesome Jersey and Patriot high bush blueberries that often hold on to some of their leaves through the winter, only really dropping all of them right before pushing new ones out, they seem to develop the reds just like the blackberries do there!
You our favorite gardener.
Thank you.😊❤😊
I appreciate it! Thank you!
Just found you and I'm so thankful! I'm in fayetville NC, so I'm planting what you're planting. Thank you!
You're welcome! What grows well here should do well your way.
Im in chicago area and i already have flowers on my honeyberries and green new growth on my yellow rasberries which are a little earlier than the red variety. They coincide with our spring bulbs here.
have two june and two everbearing strawberries and have flowering on all almost and i have 40 plants. love the haul and i live in wilmington
They're a reliable fruit. They ripen here before the pests really activate.
As someone with mulberry trees they do ripen rather early, the problems with mulberry though is that the birds often get to the mulberries before you do and that they have a very invasive root system that causes a lot of problems.
I wish the birds ate more of them, my backyard pond is full of them.
We have asparagus and blueberries but haven’t found a good blackberry. I’m going to check that one out! I LOVE raspberries over most other berries, and we have wild ones growing around our property. I also planted a golden double raspberry last year. Hoping it fruits this year! We also bought a tiny huckleberry and I’d love to add honey berries too. Yes to all the berries! They’re sooooo good for us.
I pruned the new canes repeatedly on my 120ft long blackberry patch last year for max production this year. I pruned the tips, the new tips, and made them into bushes instead of the natural huge long canes they usually produce. The best berries that are slightly sweet even when red and are huge are blooming now. I noticed several types that have major differences in the patch. Dewberries are blooming along my driveway too. Dewberries are low to the ground and very sweet. But they`re dangerous to pick because of copperhead snakes. It is NOT fun to get bitten by one of those...trust me!
Hey from Statesville NC have good day
Hello Jeff. @@jeffsherwood9151
I’m in 9a and my mulberry is completely loaded right now! They’ll be ready to harvests in a couple weeks! So much easier than blackberries too! Omg…you HAVE to get a mulberry! Mine is everbearing and produces 2 to 3 times a year!
Yes, a MUST have! 9b mulberries can be invasive.
Bush variety is now 12 ft tall 😮 Jam jelly vinegar pies.
Just got Pakistan cuttings!!!
@@nolagirlhomestead nice! I keep mine short. It’s in my chicken yard and I top it to 6’-7’ on Valentine’s Day so it produces so much and I can pick them easier. LOVE Nola btw…we’re a 4 hour drive away.
@@adigmon Good plan, have to remember when to top it out.
Chicken coop is the bomb! Made cuzn Faye peaches the best ever!
Grew up in Tallulah
@@nolagirlhomestead how’d you get Pakistan cuttings? That’s interesting. They propagate really easily!
@@adigmon huge tree, with permission of course! 1 ft tall Already trying to make berries...
We have French Sorrel coming up now and the sprouts of the horseradish are just peeking out. Of course the winter weeds are prime now. We just had a delicous weed pie.
Ive got hosta shoots coming up (taste like asparagus), and bronze leaf fennel, and friends have rhubarb coming up
Great video, thanks for sharing
got about 1/2 a dozen radishes out of the garden, first year for most of the berries though so not expecting much, lettuce is going great, peppers from last year are producing, tomatoes and new peppers are about ready to transplant. hoping everything survive the July move to RP on the eastern coast of NC. :)
Thanks for this from Minnesota!
You're welcome! You need these things with your short season so you can get into the action earlier.
Was there a link to growing blueberries? Thanks for a great video!
That Navajo thornless does great in phoenix, AZ! Makes sense it doesn’t do well there. Great video:)
Thank you 🌱🌻
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thank you 👍🏼 . I thoroughly enjoyed this video!
I’m live in Swansboro and your channel has been helpful!
I have added so many fruit trees this year. A turkey fig, Arkansas black apple, seedless purple grape, cherry, crab apple, native plum. I have 10 blueberry bushes. I see a lot of flowers, so i may have more than a sandwich bag of berries this time. I've add strawberries and plane to make a strawberry tower. Its a shame but im hoping to lore my grand kids with the fruit. 😊
Great video, it's tough out here in 5a.
Just subscribed. Great content. Thank you.
Thanks for subscribing! I appreciate it!
Thank You!!
You're welcome!
Yes!!!!!
Thank you for all you do. I aspire to be like you although I have a very tiny yard in CT.
Zone 5, small yard, but I grow all of those!
Excellent!
Dale is cool, even when he is chillin'. Have a great weekend!
He's a good egg.
thanks for the amazing video!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the berry info. I was shopping at Tractor Supply but the differences were making my head spin!
Thanks so much! I love my black berry fruits, just planted raspberry
+3 Rhubarb, honeyberry, loquat. Especially, the first two is very cold-hardy.
i planted some joan j bare roots last spring, they took forever to wake up but i got fruit late summer. excited for them this season
Thanks for the information on all the fruits! I want to plant some thornless blackberries! Hi Dale! See you later boy!
I recommend the Prime Ark Freedom! No thorns, huge berries, it doesn't really spread. It's easy to manage.
I live in zone 5A or 5B in Ontario to would like to plant them raspberries and not in pots. Well they survived the winter if I wrap them in burlap
Your videos always super helpful, but I need to stop watching them right now. We're moving into a new house in 2 wks w/ over an acre of land, and I told myself that we'd focus on the interior this year and garden next year. Thanks to you though, in the past month, I've bought a brown select satsuma ("the front of the house is south-facing! There's a perfect spot!" I justify to my husband), 2 figs ("Look at these beautiful wooden pots! We can put 1 each on either side of the garage door!"), and now I'm tempted to buy blackberry bushes thanks to this video. Ugh. Lol
I’m up to 16 blueberry plants. Just like you, I have a mix of rabbit eye and Southern Highbush. Blackberries and Boysenberries are both covered in blooms.
Very nice! I wish I had more room for blueberries. We'll see what happens when I finally run out of all room in my yard. It's coming quickly.
@@TheMillennialGardener I grow them in pots in about a 15’ x 20’ area. Biggest problem is keeping my dogs from getting them before me!😂
I like your video so much!!👍🩵
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Another nice one, MG! 👍
I would add everbearing mulberries...I have fruit setting. My Venus grapevine is also setting fruit. I'm in the same zone as you...Central Texas.
Adventure with Dale...just point the camera at him and he melts us with those big beautiful eyes!😃💕
My strawberries I planted last year are blooming right now ❤
Gotta cover them tomorrow tho- got a freeze warning
Mulberry belongs in this list. It depends on the variety, but fruit in April to June is typical. I have one Everbearing Mulberry that I picked up from Florida, (and admittedly that may be just a little too ambitious for zone 8A) but I start seeing early green fruitless on it in mid-March. I will set some 5 gallon buckets of water around it for the upcoming frost on March 19, which I think will be the last one of this spring, and see if that will get it through.
I have baby strawberry plants. Should i pinch the flowers off until they get bigger? They're trying to fruit already. They're Seascape and Ozark kind.
❤ Dale
Zone 6, Pacific North West. Quinault is my favorite strawberry far.
I also started white strawberry seeds a few weeks ago,I have never grown strawberries from seeds and I am very excited to learn about this process and to grow this type.I dont know much about the plants as ordered the seeds from a company in Las Vegas and seeds came from China so it will be interesting to see what they turn out like ❤❤❤
I planted bare root asparagus last year (2 varieties). I cut it back the 2nd week of January (zone 9A). It sprouted the first week of February. (I kept hoping for a freeze so I could pick some. Didn’t happen this year!). The plants are now 6’ tall and ferning out! I just planted another bed of asparagus! Already looking forward to next year!
Wow, that is early. I had 4-5 more spears break ground today. That means I'll be picking them Sunday.
@@TheMillennialGardener zone 9A. We had a freeze in January which is when it died back finally! It hit upper 70’s for over a week first week of February. I was hoping for another freeze as I’d have cut back (picked!) the spears but while we did have a couple of nights with light frost, no solid freeze. I have a peach tree with fruit already set. All my figs have leaves and most of my citrus are flowering.
9b First year harvesting from my one and only crown. Martha Washington started from seed and moved to south side last fall. Added 2 more crowns.
Grocery store asparagus is no comparison!
I live west of Ottawa Canada and pick wild asparagus
Zone 9a Texas and I've already harvested asparagus since the end of February!
Blueberries have tons of flowers. No flowering on my blackberries yet, but the growth is insane! Last years strawberries are coming along. I need to get my new plugs in the ground asap, but the oak pollen is keeping me inside. 🤧🤧😭
I agree with you on raspberries... great in everything, not so good fresh. 😝
How do you keep birds from your berries? Or does Dale act as a deterrent just by being himself?
I do not like asparagus but you said if we grow them ourselves that they're very sweet and do not taste like store bought. I am always looking for food that will come up every year and this would fill the bill and i will order the purple ones and try them again in the hopes that i will now change my mind about them. When we were kids and my Mom would make asparagus we hated it and tried to always give it to the dog. Thanks for all the good information that you give to us all.
Florida Gardener
Zone 9a
Try sautéed in butter and salt, or butter and brown sugar.
Can I plant a blackberry bush at the end of my raspberry bed? Or does it need its own, separated away, spot? From what I can tell you have yours at the end of your blackberry bed?
How do you keep your soil acidic around your in ground blueberries?
Did not know about prima-cane fruiting blackberries! Thank you
You're welcome!
Prime Ark Freedom are primocane, are THORNLESS and grow really well in containers.
RECOMMEND!
I harvest mulberry in May, and loquat harvesting is in April. My zone is 8.
Every time I hear "What's growin' on" I imagine Marvin Gaye 'What's going on' music🎵🎵 playing in the background 😆, 'what's growin' on, what's growin' on' 🎵🎵
Where did you buy that blueberry plant? I bought a satsuma tree from the nursery you recomended anf looks great
I thought I hated asparagus but now I guess I need to chow down on a raw spear from the garden to really make that determination.
Asparagus from the garden versus asparagus from the grocery store is as extreme a taste difference as a garden tomato versus a grocery store tomato. One is tender and flavorful, the other is tough and tasteless.
You have your asparagus in elevated beds.
I have some long & kind of deep planters. (4-5' by 10" deep?).
Could I put asparagas in these, at least for the first year?
I'm in St.Louis, if it matters.
Thank you. Loquats (japanese plums) will fruit early as well. They flower over the winter, but i'm not sure about the growing zones.
I don't know how cold hardy mulberries are(I live in Florida), but I bought a couple two falls ago. I have a small variety and what's supposed to be a giant Chinese variety. I was told if you do not have a second one that the berries come in seedless. The small one fruited in both spring and fall. It didn't fruit a lot the first fall, but it gets more each cool season. The large Chinese one hasn't flowered yet, but it's starting to really weak up over the past couple weeks. I'm hoping they bloom at different times, so I can keep them both seedless. They taste great. It reminds me of blackberries. The big one is supposed to have fruits the size of your thumb. The tiny ones are the size of a pea. Good luck this season. Btw I already have peppers and tomatoes.
I have just hand-pollinated one of my everbearing strawberry plants.
Interesting. I've never had to. It seems they pollinate so easily.
Thank you for this video!!!! I bought some Prime Ark Freedom and Traveler's blackberries just the other day and have been planning to build a mound like you did. What happened to your trellises? Did you decide they weren't needed anymore or are they just down for winter? I am very glad to know you are still happy with those blackberries! This is seriously awesome timing.
As always, I appreciate you (and Dale) and learn so much from your videos.
Happy Friday!
The Prime Ark Freedom are an erect, non-spreading type and pretty much grow straight up. I just didn't need them anymore. They've been very easy to maintain as a bush. I didn't know that going in. I was a very early adopter of this variety when little info was known about them. I figured that out after growing them a few seasons. Dale says hello!
If you like sweet Strawberries you should get Hood variety they're plump sweet and juicy they're te best in my opinion they're June bearing
I don't grow any Junebearing types at this time. Here, I have to grow heat tolerant varieties since our summers are so hot.
@TheMillennialGardener that's a bummer if you're ever in the pacific northwest in June be sure to hit up a u-pick with them Hoods are the best Strawberries IMHO
Thanks! I'm a fruit lover, so I appreciate these great tips. Do you have a berry pruning video? I have a number of blackberry plants and don't think I'm on the right schedule for pruning. I'm also growing more blueberries, although I'm having to prepare special beds or pots because my soil is not acidic enough. I also have to fight mice, birds, chipmunks and squirrels for the berries. Last year my blackberries were exceptional, so I don't want to mess it up. If you have a video or advice or guidance to share, I'd love to see it. Thanks from northern Virginia. PS - I love Wrightsville Beach. There's nothing like walking there morning, noon, and night. I think that's not too far from you.
U shud try a thornless raspberry you might like them A diff flavor than the usual lathams or other raspberries
Have you found a good trellis system for your cane berries?
I am trying strawberries and blueberries this year. I wanted to try asparagus but soneone told me that you have to wait a year for production. Thanks for this information. Dale is cute and cool whatever he does ❤❤❤❤😊
You actually don't get to harvest them til Year 3. The first 2 years, you need to let the roots establish. The 3rd year, you can take a light harvest. The 4th year and beyond, you get full harvests. But that's the same thing for any fruit tree, so just look at it like that. Then, they feed you for 20 years.
You do have to wait a year for Asparagus, which is why you needed to plant them yesterday! 😂 so don't hold off for another year! 🤦♀️ why do we do that? When we're not going to get immediate satisfaction or results, we choose to not grow it?!? I've done the same thing with biennial flowers...
I heard that and didn't as well, but last year decided I had no reason not to and I had the space, and since it seemed like there wasn't much difference in growing them with the roots or by seed, I saved money and planted seeds. First year down, year two of letting them get stronger starts now - and they're already peeking out from the ground!
Hasakap alka Honey Berry aka Lonicera kamchatka is earlier than strawberries, and very nice :)
I know in NJ blueberries love sandy soil (in the Pine Barrens). I'd love to grow them now that I'm here on the Outer Banks but I literally have beach sand and have had very little success growing in it. Do you know if I need to give them actual soil to start them off and, if so, how deep? Or should I just give up that idea and use containers? What about raspberries and blackberries too?
I've already picked a couple strawberry's. I don't know the type. They were started from seed from a organic store bought strawberry as an fun experiment sometime last summer. I'm in zone 9. I also planted a couple other everbearing types (bare root) earlier this spring that are doing well.
Lol the personality 🎉