My Edible Fruit Trees: Strawberry Trees

alpine strawberry (Seedling) ^7/10

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 8

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

I find that these plants don't do very well here.......it's too dry!!!  They really need watering every day, and like a bit of shade.

Alpine Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

I LOVE alpine strawberries and grow white and also red fruited kinds. They are easy to grow and love light shade.

The fruits are very small but have a strong, lucious strawberry taste. The plants are clumping and most alpine varieties don't produce runners. They easily reseed themselves so you don't have to worry there. They do well in pots or in the ground. I have mine planted in a shadehouse where they look great among the ferns.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April

Planted: 1992

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 20

Fruit Harvest: 50 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Keep an eye out for slugs and snails. Birds often don't bother with the white ones.

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

irish strawberry tree (Seedling)

Planted: 2007

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

irish strawberry tree

Fruiting Months May, June, September, October

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mxd

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Irish Strawberry Tree ^6/10

Comments: -

Arbutus unedo

Apparently you'll only try this one once.  Suppose to be a very nice tree with red and yellow lage marble size fruits

Planted: 2009

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Irish Strawberry Tree - arbutus canariensis

Comments: -

Summer 2010: This one was a gift from my sister. She picked it cause it sounded interesting (and she knew I didn't already have it!).

The flowers are pretty but it hasn't fruited yet. It does have lovely bright green new growth.

Spring 2011: lots of new growth. Since spring started it has doubled in volume!

Summer 2011: I don't think that it likes all the rain. Getting brown patches on the inside of a lit of the folliage. Fingers crossed the weather warms up soon.

Summer 2012: The browning has stopped but the growing tips were all getting droopy. I decided not to cut them off just in case and it paid off cause there was nothing wrong with them - they were flowering!!!

Planted: 2010

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter, Seasol, Charlie Carp, worm juice (in rotation)

Pest Control: Ants seem to be farming some sort of GINORMOUS fat black bloated scale things on the hardened off branches (just where the leaves come out). I picked as many off as I could and then sprayed it with pest oil.

mango strawberry (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Fruiting Months January and December

Planted: 2004

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pest Control:

mancozeb during flowering

Mango Strawberry

Microcachrys tetragona Strawberry Pine

Comments: -

Microcachrys tetragona, the creeping strawberry pine is a low shrub up to 1 metre, native to alpine regions in Tasmania. It is dioecious with the female plants producing edible red berries that look a bit like small strawberries. It seems easy to grow in Melbourne although it may not like the hot summers so it would be best kept in a cool shady position.

Planted: 2020

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Psidium littorale var. longpies (Guava | Strawberry)

Planted: 2010

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Psidium littorale var. longpies (Guava | Strawberry)

Planted: 2010

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Strawberry

Comments: -

I love this pot of strawberry. It is quite easy to grow in pots and has given me enough to eat. Propagating new ones.

Fruiting Months January, November, December

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Prone to caterpillars so it has gone under netting.

Organic Status:Organic

strawberry

strawberry

Strawberry

Comments: -

everlast & temptation. not sweetheart.

Question:

strawberry (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: -

It's taken over one of my vegie patches - overgrown with grass - helps keep the fruit off the ground - away from the slugs

Fruiting Months January, November, December

Planted: 2005

Height 0.1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry

Planted: 2007

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

I have a few different varieties growing in a big tub in my backyard.  Thankful for the dogs the birds don't go near them but my kids do.  As soon as they see a ripe strawberry or raspberry, it's gone.

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry

Planted: 2009

Strawberry

Comments: -

I have at least three different types growing in the same patch. All start fruiting in July and fruit until December. My child loves picking an eating them straight off the plants, they never make it home. Prolific and easy to grow.

Fruiting Months July, August, September, October, November, December

Planted: 2010

Height 15 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 40

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control:

no

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry

Qty: 4

Pollination: No

Strawberry (Seedling)

Growing: In the Ground

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry - Alinta ^10/10

Comments: -

I'm trying Strawberry Alinta. I only just planted them last weekend so we'll see how they go. They are supposed to have an extended fruiting season compared to other varieties.

All plants are now starting to fruit (2/9/2009)

Planted: 2009

Height 0.1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 5

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

nil needed

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry - Alinta

Strawberry - Assorted ^5/10

Comments: -

Varius types of strawberries given to us or purchased at markets.  Hopeful of getting a few to add to fruit salads.
Planted along the top of our new wall.
First fruit Dec 2009.  Yummy.

Fruiting Months August, September, October

Height 0.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 2008 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Strawberry - Bravo ^10/10

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry - Cambridge Rival ^8/10

Comments: -

This is an heirloom variety from Diggers Club. I will never buy strawberries from the supermarket after growing these. The ripe fruit is like popping a litle ball of sweet perfume into your mouth.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 5 Months after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

Pruned By: 75% in After Fruiting

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Blood and Bone, Potash

Question:

What is eating my beautiful strawberries? Ants perhaps. I have found the most minute worm like bug in one of the fruit.

Strawberry - Hokowase

Planted: 2009

Height 0.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Strawberry - Hokowase (Seedling) ^6/10

Comments: -

An acid-free amazingly sweet variety of strawberries. 

September 2009:  Some flowering activity observed. Visible baby strawberries struggling to get through.

October 2009 to March 2010:  Still producing lots of lovely acid-free sweet strawberries;  definitely the best tasting strawberries I have eaten.  My grandson Thoren seems to think so too.

Planted: 2008

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Osmocote

Pest Control:

Spray with Confidor before fruit forms.

Strawberry - Hokowase

Comments: -

From one original Bunnings pot in 2008. Propagated over 20 plants in 2009 and kept about half. Hanging baskets and planter boxes. Mulch well in winter to get (earlier) spring fruit. Putting out runners Feb 2010 after fruiting later and less than I'd like. One plant pushed out first 2 flowers mid august 2010. Giving them liquid feeds now

Planted: 2008

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 12

Question:

Quite a lot of red (and then dead?) leaves heading into winter. Is this normal? What do you do to get strawberries going again early in spring?

Comments

Brad, do you prune your strawberry plants since 2008? What do you feed them with? I have a pot of strawberry delight. Got two plants out of it so far and more runners coming. Just wondering what I should with them when the weather starts to cool down.

Hi au0rey... not sure how to reply so that I know you'll see it.... if you want to propagate the runners, wait until you see crowns form. You can tease these up and if they have roots, pot them up. If you cut the runners too early, you'll likely lose the plants. If you want the original plant to continue flowering over summer, cut the runners that come, when you see them. To answer your question, I only removed tired leaves (generally sunburnt). I let all runners go in 2008 from the pot shown below and I propagated those in 2 batches. This year I've no use for runners, so I'll remove them, but they haven't come yet (probably because I didn't mulch over winter and they've been slow to get going)

Hi Brad, thanks so much! I 'favourited' your page and check regularly to see if you had replied. :)My plant is having like 5 runners. For the 1st runner, I potted it before seeing roots and my son actually knocked it over one day and I saw roots, so i cut it off from the parent. I suppose it would be self-sufficient thereafter. That same runner also produced another baby so I potted that one as well. Would that be good idea? Yesterday I potted 3 other runners as they do have leaves (not sure if that is called crown) and pegged them down with wires. It's making a guess if they are ready to be cut off from the parent. I mean I cant have my son knocking it over again to see the roots haha.. So now I know from your advice, wait for the roots to appear before potting. If i do not trim off runners, does that mean smaller fruits?

Hi au0rey. Last first, no I don't think you'll get smaller fruits. But the plant will put energy into the runners rather than more flowers and fruit, so you'll get less. If a new plant has a runner attached, the energy drain on the small amount of roots might be too much. So only cut it away from the main plant when all the runners can be cut. It sounds like yours are going great. best of luck

Thanks Brad! :)

Hi Brad, how deep is your planter above..the one with 4 strawberry plants in it...can the plants in that planter last through at least one year without repotting? Do you know if strawberry have shallow or deep roots? Thanks loads!

Hi again. This thing really needs to alert me to comments... I only planted out this year. I'm sure you can go at least one year. That planter is not deep at all, ~20cm, I'd say. I've also got 2 self-watering pots in that rectangle shape of similar size. The roots do get to the bottom. The round hanging basket also has roots come through to the water resevoir. So far they seem to like it.