Where to buy strawberry plants?

moodykerry

Hello all,
I am growing a lot of veg this year which is easy to buy as seed, however I wish to also grow strawberries too, where is a good place to buy these, can you only buy them in plant form? Online shops would be best for me if you could recommend some as I do not get to go out much at the moment, and if I do its on the bus with a buggy so no spare hands.
Let me know of any strawberry success's (sp)
Kerry

nodwah

I'm evangelical about alpine strawberries: Get seeds from B&Q, woolies, supermarkets. Sow them now and get millions of plants which will fruit this year with loads of tiny very tasty fruits and keep going til th efrosts. They seem to grow in any soil and any old corner of the garden and the kids love going out searching for the fruit. They also seed around so you don't have to keep buying new ones like the big strawbs. Th eonly prob I have with them is slugs - you think you've got a lovely big juicy strab and the find a slug has eaten the whole inside! The birds don't seem to go for them tho'
Go on give em a try

moodykerry

ooh thanks, forgotton about alpine strawbs, remember picking them with my dad when I was little!
Didn't know you could buy them in seed form. Thanks!

Jonjulie

We have hundreds of Strawberry plants,think they are the "Cambridge" variety,big fruits,heavy cropper,and they grow faster than weeds,you cant kill them,even grow in my concrete drive way.
Will be digging some of them up in a few weeks,if anyone wishes to send a Large pre-paid padded envelope i will let you have some.
They fruit every year on Wimbledon weeks,dont ask me why.
PM me if you want any.Free.

saxy1

Try this website - http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk

stilernin

Just a thought...... if anyone is sending plants through the post you can protect them by using old plastic bottles.

Squash or milk bottles are good, cut off the top down to the 'full width' level, put in as many 'bare rooted' plants as is comfortable and tape on a 'top' cut from another bottle.

Best to wrap the roots in damp newspaper to keep a bit of moisture in the plant.

Several bottles of plants can be taped together and wrapped up as one parcel.

Hope this helps someone...........

mcbiddy

Mmmm... last year while making a stawberry sorbet i sieved out a lot of seeds and thought: wonder if they'd grow, so after they'd dried out properly i put some in a bit of soil/compost mix in a tray and plopped that on my back bedroom window sill and kept moist... looks like i'm going to have 20-30 plants more than last year this year. so no buying for me this year... well unless they turn out to be rubbish... i don't know about online shopping for plants though, i'd be a bit worried about the state of them when they turn up... local gardening centres will certainly have a wide range

LJM

they have them in woolworths and if you look online most garden centres carry these,i am getting the mr and mrs potts to grow with my girls this year

computerwoman

try spaldings i was just looking in my book at them, and was wondering if I should get some this year, but am allergic to wasps and bees and these will encourage them into the garden so maybe not.
www.spaldingbulb.co.uk

moodykerry

Thankyou all for your help.

Jonjulie thanks for your kind offer, but I would feel too quilty too have your plants for free. But that variety sounds just what i'm after, will look out for it.

mcbiddy, I have never thought of saving the seeds from straws, will try that.

I can see what is going too happen, going to have way too many strawb plants this year!
Thanks ALL!!

TKP_3

saxy1 wrote:

Try this website - http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk

I bought their Alpine Mignonette seeds on the weekend, and sewed them today into a propogator (on the wondow sill). Fingers crossed...