The Strawberry Growing Guide

The three types and a season chart, the RHS Award of Garden Merit varieties, planting depth and spacing drawings, pots and baskets, care, picking, runners, pests and problems, the history from Frézier to Wimbledon, myths and a glossary.

What’s inside:

- Strawberries at a glance

- What is a strawberry?

- Summer-fruiting, perpetual and alpine

- RHS Award of Garden Merit varieties

- When, where and how deep

- Spacing and buying plants

- Pots, baskets and grow bags

- Water, straw, flowers and frost

- Harvest, new plants and tidying up

- Pests and problems

- A spy, a king’s garden and a pineapple

- Strawberries through time

- Myths, and where sources differ

- Words you will meet

- Credits, licence and sources

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Every fact is written in our own words and checked against named sources from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Science History Institute, the University of Minnesota and the LTA (checked 11 Nov 2026); the sources are listed on the credits page. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with its source. Our own opinions are clearly labelled.

Drawings and charts are our own. Photos are from Wikimedia Commons, public domain or CC0, credited on the credits page. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Science History Institute, the University of Minnesota, the LTA, the All England Club or any other organisation or artist named here.

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