If you're growing for the first time and don't know where to start, or maybe you've given it a solid try but had hoped for better results, I have a free class designed just for you! I call it the 5 Keys To A Successful Vegetable Garden and its completely free, check it out here: courses.theripetomatofarms.ca/courses/5Keys
From a personal experience I got my seeds form a u-pick strawberry and had fantastic results. Dont know if they came true to type or not but they taste great anyway. If you are up for the challenge, do it!
I had started from seeds as well and it just sweet but when summer came it wilted so I just lost a good strawberries I wish I have some ways to save it maybe covered it with wood chips. Thanks for sharing Jeff
Whatever he is saying is true. I grew Strawberries from seed and I started the germination process just before my daughter was conceived lol. Then the plant took so long to grow but when my daughter was like almost a year old. Then only I got Strawberries. So it took a year to grow to size to carry any fruit and then it was winter, then in the second year it grew fruit. However even though they took long to grow they became very hardy plants. They really thrived in the environment they grew.
Every year I am tempted to grow strawberries from seed at this time of year. In fact, I did just that last year. I was pleasantly surprised with the germination rate; however, I totally agree, runners are much easier to grow. 🌱🍓🌸
I planted alpine strawberries last March from seed zone 4a, and had a small harvest in July, then in September I had a huge harvest, and the berries were a lot bigger.
I've got some Alpine strawberry seeds (given as a present) and I am going to try them this year. Yes, germination is always a tricky deal but I find it can be very rewarding to give a good honest try. I still use the 'daughter' system as it is a good tried and true method, especially when I suspect a hybrid plant. All my seeds come from a company that is certified organic, heirloom (and noted if hybrid) and my past experience with their stuff is great (even when my skills are lacking.). Expanding our abilities is never an endeavor I would shy from, it helps me expand my skill sets that I really derive a great deal of pleasure from. To ensure food security, I'll hedge my bets by doing both this coming season. You're caution is valid, it is not easy for brand new gardeners, but once you've got a couple of seasons under your belt, don't be afraid to stretch your wings. 🌱
Alpine strawberries, which are sweeter, although much smaller than the hybrid strawberries are in fact, grown from seeds. Most Alpine strawberries do not produce runners so if you want them, you grow them from seeds. They are difficult to grow for sure and a lot of times it will be the second year before you get a crop, but they are worth it. Alpine strawberries are sometimes called wild strawberries and are much better tasting than the strawberries that you get in the store and that most people plant.
I like strawberries and would like to grow them. The best strawberries I ever had came from a U-pick farm near Chehalis, WA. I do not live anywhere near there now. Here in central WA, it is freezing cold or it feels like we are in an oven. The weather can change at the drop of a hat. I tend to grow peas, beans, tomatoes, and peppers. They usually do pretty good. Even though I have seen strawberry seeds, I've never tried growing them since we live in a different climate from western WA.
Grew alpine strawberries from seed I got from a kit on Amazon years ago. Harvested fruit from them in the same year! (5b~6a) They survived their first winter freeze and produced the following year even better but sadly didn't make it through their second winter. This year I'm going to attempt pineberries from seed. Last year I had no germination problems but they struggled and dried out/died before reaching maturity. Worst comes to worst I'll hang my head in shame and resort to paying a visit to the local plant nursey for their more mature plants!
@@sandyhayden-bristow1382 Both years they were in a tiered container that was brought into the garage to overwinter. Could of been they didn't get enough water and dried out. Got different species in that same container right now sitting outside to see if they survive.
I grew our first strawberries from seed and the rest have been children of the plants. We lost a few old ones with this years frost but still have several plants to separate out.
I have a question about seed stratification is it fine if i put it in the winter and expect it to germinate in the springs I live in a hot climate and it doesn't snow in winter
Strawberry seeds generally need light to germinate. Ive never stratified my seeds before. Have you tried just germinating with light vs stratification?
Are strawberry and alpine strawberry so different from each other? I sowed alpine strawberry in January last year and had so many plants delivering tasty berries all summer long ❤ Sowed some other varieties a week ago, and two types of strawberry. Will be fun to see how it works 😊
Alpine ones will germinate first. Fresca (full size berries - heirloom) and Albion (full size berries - hybrid) will germinate a little while after. Fresca and Alpine varieties don't send off runners. Well...I had one Fresca out of probably 60 send off a runner, but that's it and it and it only grew about 2" from the mother plant. My Albion ones send off runners like it was their main purpose in life. You can expect 3-5 baby plants per mother plant per year. They are spreaders for sure.
Strange when I was younger my mom bought me and my sister strawberry seeds and we planted them and they germinated in like 2 weeks and then started growing fruit in like 5 weeks but idk maybe my memory is weird because time flies by quick when your young
modern garden strawberries are hybrids which are sold via clonal propagation as you do. if you already have bountiful varieties then breeding them yourself is something you should only do for curiosity or the personal hobby if attempting to develop your own. it shouldnt be done in place of growing well developed varieties until you discover one when breeding them. the only strawberries that are not hybrids that can be purchased readily from seed are alpine varieties (fragaria vesca spp semperflorens) which are developed and then stabilized, or generic woodland strawberry packets (also fragaria vesca, but not of the same stock). they can be grown from seed and as long as they are not crossed with a different alpine variety then they will continue to produce true to type.
@TheRipeTomatoFarms I'm working on breeding my own strawberries from wild stocks, but I would never give up my local variety (jefferson Red) or my everbearers (delizz) any day.
Brother, I have to disagree with you on starting from seed. Saying they won't produce in the first year is nonsense. You're just not starting them early enough. I started about 170 plants last year in January. I gave probably 30 or 40 away to friends around March. By April they were starting to produce berries right in my basement. I didn't pinch off any flowers at all. On May 9th (I write down all my dates) I put them out in 2 eve trough strawberry planters I'd built, put on the auto water drip irrigation tubing, and let them go. I also put some in pots. By August, I had enough berries to make 28 x 250mL jars of the best strawberry jam I've ever had, plus all the one's we ate fresh. There were 3 varieties. Alpine (tiny but extremely flavorful berries), Fresca (full size heirloom) and a bunch of Albion (hybrid) from seeds that I'd saved from 4 plants I'd bought the year before. I also bought 25 bare root Albion ones just in case the hybrid seeds didn't work. There was absolutely NO difference that I could see in any of the Albion plants as far as size, production, or taste. By the beginning of August, production had slowed down and I took a bunch of the plants out of the pots and planters and put them around the base of the trees in my back yard. I'd already started many plants in small pots from the runners the Albion ones had sent off. In the fall I took about 50 of them, removed the soil from the roots, and put them in coffee cans with damp sand. They've been in my bar fridge ever since and don't seem to be rotting. I did have a little mold growing in one can, and gave it a little spray with some hydrogen peroxide and that seems to have beat it down quite well. The big problem with starting your first year from seed is getting your initial batch of seeds. Albion aren't available, and need to be saved from plants you already have. The Fresca ones are stupidly priced if you buy them from West Coast Seeds, but are about 1/4 of the price from OSC. The Alpine ones come with hundreds of seeds per package, so they really aren't as big a deal. Throw the package in the fridge for 2-3 weeks, not months, and they're ready to go. I got about 50% germination out of mine, and about half of those seedlings survived, so call it 25% of the seeds I planted made it to maturity. I saved a TON of seeds last summer, so now planting lots to ensure I have a good number of survivors isn't an issue. I've actually given thousands of seeds out to friends, started my own already, and still have thousands left. Some germinated within a week, but most will take 3-4 weeks to germinate. Last year, I still had little seedlings popping up after 8 weeks beside plants that I'd already moved into pots. All that said, if you only want a couple of plants, just go buy them. If you want a LOT of plants and you want Alpine and Fresca (heirloom) varieties that can't be found in nurseries (at least around Edmonton), then seeds are absolutely the way to go. The easiest way to save seeds from Fresca and Albion berries is to skin them with a sharp knife, press the skin onto a piece of paper towel, and lay it out in the sun to dry for a few days. Once dry, just scrape off the seeds with your fingernail. The Alpine ones (tiny berries) you can either split them in half or quaters, and press them onto paper towel. If you want to to a lot at the same time, put them in a blender with some water, turn it into a very dilute juice, and strain it though a very fine sieve. You will damage some seeds, but when you're getting tens of thousands of seeds from a hand full of berries, who cares. Picking individual seeds off a strawberry with a pointy stick is insanity. If I can do all that in Edmonton (zone 3) under grow lights, it can be done anywhere. I threw a bunch of leaves over top of the ones I transplanted under the trees, so I'm curious to see how well they over wintered outside. If they didn't make it...meh....oh well. I'll have more than a hundred from the ones I've already started inside earlier this month.
I bought from west coast last year. I threw some in a planter in late July and managed to have 3 germinate! 🤞🏻 they survive winter. The rest I put in the fridge until about 3 weeks ago. I have now have 3 more wee plants. So keep trying Ali 🥂
I got some seeds from a San Andreas strawberry and put them in three 3 ziploc bags but I only got 1 of the bags to germinate, then when i checked the bags i noticed the one that germinated the seeds had a different kind of paper towel than the ones that did not. It has been 11 weeks since i started and I have gotten around 30 seeds to germinate out of 50 from that bag. The paper towel that didn't work had some clear green dots thar i had not notice (i suppose it had some chemicals that prevented the seeds from germinate)
You have a unique speaking pattern. It ascends slowly to a higher pitch then comes back down more quickly. And most of the time you speak with the same note pattern musically speaking. It’s interesting.
If you're growing for the first time and don't know where to start, or maybe you've given it a solid try but had hoped for better results, I have a free class designed just for you! I call it the 5 Keys To A Successful Vegetable Garden and its completely free, check it out here: courses.theripetomatofarms.ca/courses/5Keys
Love the information. Thank you
From a personal experience I got my seeds form a u-pick strawberry and had fantastic results. Dont know if they came true to type or not but they taste great anyway. If you are up for the challenge, do it!
I had started from seeds as well and it just sweet but when summer came it wilted so I just lost a good strawberries I wish I have some ways to save it maybe covered it with wood chips. Thanks for sharing Jeff
Whatever he is saying is true. I grew Strawberries from seed and I started the germination process just before my daughter was conceived lol. Then the plant took so long to grow but when my daughter was like almost a year old. Then only I got Strawberries. So it took a year to grow to size to carry any fruit and then it was winter, then in the second year it grew fruit. However even though they took long to grow they became very hardy plants. They really thrived in the environment they grew.
I recently saved seeds from a "store bought" strawberry. I'll post the results. Thanks for the info.
@@bettygentry9672 let us know Betty! Fingers crossed.
Awesome info 🙏🏿
I am a new grower and will not be growing from seeds 😂. Thank you for this video! ❤🍓🍓
Every year I am tempted to grow strawberries from seed at this time of year. In fact, I did just that last year. I was pleasantly surprised with the germination rate; however, I totally agree, runners are much easier to grow. 🌱🍓🌸
Right on Garrett.....it CAN be done....its just a lot MORE work, ha ha!
Another great video! May try my hand with berries when I get my outdoor garden growing (too close to capacity in the grow room lol)
I planted alpine strawberries last March from seed zone 4a, and had a small harvest in July, then in September I had a huge harvest, and the berries were a lot bigger.
I'm trying some for the first time this year. Hope I have as good a harvest as you did!
Thanks for the tips!!!
I've got some Alpine strawberry seeds (given as a present) and I am going to try them this year. Yes, germination is always a tricky deal but I find it can be very rewarding to give a good honest try. I still use the 'daughter' system as it is a good tried and true method, especially when I suspect a hybrid plant. All my seeds come from a company that is certified organic, heirloom (and noted if hybrid) and my past experience with their stuff is great (even when my skills are lacking.). Expanding our abilities is never an endeavor I would shy from, it helps me expand my skill sets that I really derive a great deal of pleasure from. To ensure food security, I'll hedge my bets by doing both this coming season. You're caution is valid, it is not easy for brand new gardeners, but once you've got a couple of seasons under your belt, don't be afraid to stretch your wings. 🌱
Alpine strawberries, which are sweeter, although much smaller than the hybrid strawberries are in fact, grown from seeds. Most Alpine strawberries do not produce runners so if you want them, you grow them from seeds. They are difficult to grow for sure and a lot of times it will be the second year before you get a crop, but they are worth it. Alpine strawberries are sometimes called wild strawberries and are much better tasting than the strawberries that you get in the store and that most people plant.
I like strawberries and would like to grow them. The best strawberries I ever had came from a U-pick farm near Chehalis, WA. I do not live anywhere near there now. Here in central WA, it is freezing cold or it feels like we are in an oven. The weather can change at the drop of a hat.
I tend to grow peas, beans, tomatoes, and peppers. They usually do pretty good. Even though I have seen strawberry seeds, I've never tried growing them since we live in a different climate from western WA.
Welcome back
@@jeffsherwood9151 glad to be back!!
Grew alpine strawberries from seed I got from a kit on Amazon years ago. Harvested fruit from them in the same year! (5b~6a) They survived their first winter freeze and produced the following year even better but sadly didn't make it through their second winter. This year I'm going to attempt pineberries from seed. Last year I had no germination problems but they struggled and dried out/died before reaching maturity. Worst comes to worst I'll hang my head in shame and resort to paying a visit to the local plant nursey for their more mature plants!
@pillowkitty6 The 2nd year, were they planted in ground or in a raised bed/planter/grow bag situation?
@@sandyhayden-bristow1382 Both years they were in a tiered container that was brought into the garage to overwinter. Could of been they didn't get enough water and dried out. Got different species in that same container right now sitting outside to see if they survive.
I grew our first strawberries from seed and the rest have been children of the plants. We lost a few old ones with this years frost but still have several plants to separate out.
I have a question about seed stratification is it fine if i put it in the winter and expect it to germinate in the springs I live in a hot climate and it doesn't snow in winter
Strawberry seeds generally need light to germinate. Ive never stratified my seeds before. Have you tried just germinating with light vs stratification?
Are strawberry and alpine strawberry so different from each other? I sowed alpine strawberry in January last year and had so many plants delivering tasty berries all summer long ❤ Sowed some other varieties a week ago, and two types of strawberry. Will be fun to see how it works 😊
Alpine ones will germinate first. Fresca (full size berries - heirloom) and Albion (full size berries - hybrid) will germinate a little while after. Fresca and Alpine varieties don't send off runners. Well...I had one Fresca out of probably 60 send off a runner, but that's it and it and it only grew about 2" from the mother plant. My Albion ones send off runners like it was their main purpose in life. You can expect 3-5 baby plants per mother plant per year. They are spreaders for sure.
To my understanding, Alpine strawberries are native (??) to colder climes so they appear to do very well in warmer areas.
I prefer growing for seeds because of how many seeds you could possibly start with. More chance of success I think
Strange when I was younger my mom bought me and my sister strawberry seeds and we planted them and they germinated in like 2 weeks and then started growing fruit in like 5 weeks but idk maybe my memory is weird because time flies by quick when your young
modern garden strawberries are hybrids which are sold via clonal propagation as you do. if you already have bountiful varieties then breeding them yourself is something you should only do for curiosity or the personal hobby if attempting to develop your own. it shouldnt be done in place of growing well developed varieties until you discover one when breeding them.
the only strawberries that are not hybrids that can be purchased readily from seed are alpine varieties (fragaria vesca spp semperflorens) which are developed and then stabilized, or generic woodland strawberry packets (also fragaria vesca, but not of the same stock). they can be grown from seed and as long as they are not crossed with a different alpine variety then they will continue to produce true to type.
This gardener gets it! 🙂
@TheRipeTomatoFarms I'm working on breeding my own strawberries from wild stocks, but I would never give up my local variety (jefferson Red) or my everbearers (delizz) any day.
It's only the summer/single bearing types that need chill hours & won't fruit in their first year. Other types probably will
@@alanz90 everbearing types need vernalization as well.
Brother, I have to disagree with you on starting from seed. Saying they won't produce in the first year is nonsense. You're just not starting them early enough. I started about 170 plants last year in January. I gave probably 30 or 40 away to friends around March. By April they were starting to produce berries right in my basement. I didn't pinch off any flowers at all. On May 9th (I write down all my dates) I put them out in 2 eve trough strawberry planters I'd built, put on the auto water drip irrigation tubing, and let them go. I also put some in pots. By August, I had enough berries to make 28 x 250mL jars of the best strawberry jam I've ever had, plus all the one's we ate fresh. There were 3 varieties. Alpine (tiny but extremely flavorful berries), Fresca (full size heirloom) and a bunch of Albion (hybrid) from seeds that I'd saved from 4 plants I'd bought the year before. I also bought 25 bare root Albion ones just in case the hybrid seeds didn't work. There was absolutely NO difference that I could see in any of the Albion plants as far as size, production, or taste. By the beginning of August, production had slowed down and I took a bunch of the plants out of the pots and planters and put them around the base of the trees in my back yard. I'd already started many plants in small pots from the runners the Albion ones had sent off. In the fall I took about 50 of them, removed the soil from the roots, and put them in coffee cans with damp sand. They've been in my bar fridge ever since and don't seem to be rotting. I did have a little mold growing in one can, and gave it a little spray with some hydrogen peroxide and that seems to have beat it down quite well. The big problem with starting your first year from seed is getting your initial batch of seeds. Albion aren't available, and need to be saved from plants you already have. The Fresca ones are stupidly priced if you buy them from West Coast Seeds, but are about 1/4 of the price from OSC. The Alpine ones come with hundreds of seeds per package, so they really aren't as big a deal. Throw the package in the fridge for 2-3 weeks, not months, and they're ready to go. I got about 50% germination out of mine, and about half of those seedlings survived, so call it 25% of the seeds I planted made it to maturity. I saved a TON of seeds last summer, so now planting lots to ensure I have a good number of survivors isn't an issue. I've actually given thousands of seeds out to friends, started my own already, and still have thousands left. Some germinated within a week, but most will take 3-4 weeks to germinate. Last year, I still had little seedlings popping up after 8 weeks beside plants that I'd already moved into pots. All that said, if you only want a couple of plants, just go buy them. If you want a LOT of plants and you want Alpine and Fresca (heirloom) varieties that can't be found in nurseries (at least around Edmonton), then seeds are absolutely the way to go. The easiest way to save seeds from Fresca and Albion berries is to skin them with a sharp knife, press the skin onto a piece of paper towel, and lay it out in the sun to dry for a few days. Once dry, just scrape off the seeds with your fingernail. The Alpine ones (tiny berries) you can either split them in half or quaters, and press them onto paper towel. If you want to to a lot at the same time, put them in a blender with some water, turn it into a very dilute juice, and strain it though a very fine sieve. You will damage some seeds, but when you're getting tens of thousands of seeds from a hand full of berries, who cares. Picking individual seeds off a strawberry with a pointy stick is insanity. If I can do all that in Edmonton (zone 3) under grow lights, it can be done anywhere. I threw a bunch of leaves over top of the ones I transplanted under the trees, so I'm curious to see how well they over wintered outside. If they didn't make it...meh....oh well. I'll have more than a hundred from the ones I've already started inside earlier this month.
Thanks for all the info.
I agree with you. In fact From seed, Strawberry can bear fruit with in 3 month. I'm in hot climate, they grow very fast
I’ve bought seed twice and none of them ever germinated 😢😢 and the were from Vesey seeds
I grew alpine strawberries from seed last year and was eating strawberries till last december.. zone.7a
@ awesome I may have just not sown them correctly 👍
@myrustygarden alpine strawberries are close to wild strawberries, and are very resilient.
Small berries with amazing flavor
I bought from west coast last year. I threw some in a planter in late July and managed to have 3 germinate! 🤞🏻 they survive winter. The rest I put in the fridge until about 3 weeks ago. I have now have 3 more wee plants. So keep trying Ali 🥂
I got some seeds from a San Andreas strawberry and put them in three 3 ziploc bags but I only got 1 of the bags to germinate, then when i checked the bags i noticed the one that germinated the seeds had a different kind of paper towel than the ones that did not. It has been 11 weeks since i started and I have gotten around 30 seeds to germinate out of 50 from that bag.
The paper towel that didn't work had some clear green dots thar i had not notice (i suppose it had some chemicals that prevented the seeds from germinate)
You have a unique speaking pattern. It ascends slowly to a higher pitch then comes back down more quickly. And most of the time you speak with the same note pattern musically speaking. It’s interesting.
It's like growing apples from seed, you never know what you're going to get!
OK will strawberries an peas an lettuce go good together, I know strawberries an peas do, U told ME
@@shirleyjohnson1710 100% they all will Shirley!
Thanks for the great tips.
@@henrib723 cheers, and thanks for watching!