Strawberry Garden Strawberry, Common Strawberry, strabery,

Fragaria x ananassa

Germinate on the surface of a good free draining, damp seed compost. Do not cover the seed.

These plants will grow well with Strawberry:

Strawberries are a good companion plant, growing well with bush beans, spinach, borage, lettuce and pyrethrum.

These plants will not grow well with Strawberry so avoid planting these within close proximity:

Strawberries should not be planted near eggplants, peppers, potatoes, raspberries, or tomatoes have grown because strawberries are susceptible to Tomato ringspot virus, verticillium wilt

These pests are known to attack Strawberry plants:

These problems and diseases are known to effect Strawberry plants:

Fragaria is latin for strawberry, ananassa means ‘like ananas’ (a genus best known for the species Ananas comosus, the pineapple), referring to the delicious smell of hybrid strawberries.

It has been said that strawberries are named because they can be mulched with straw to keep them moist and to keep the berries clean. While this can be done the name ‘strawberry’ was around before thier cultivation. It may be a change in the word from ‘strayberries’ in refrence to thier runners straying from the mother plant. Thier is also the possibility that the word ‘streow’ or hay from the berries ripening at the same time the hay was harvested. from USDA history of the strawberry.

Plants for a future: http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Fragaria+x+ananassa.