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Common Name: Cultivated Strawberry
Genus: Strawberry
Family: Rosaceae
Serendipity Ranch
Columbus, North Carolina
June 7, 2002
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Plants have toothed, roundish, medium green leaves and white flowers. They grow 6 - 8 inches tall, spreading by long runners to about 1 feet across. June-bearing types produce one crop per year in late spring or early summer; generally, they are the highest-quality strawberries you can grow. Everbearing or day-neutral kinds put out fewer runners than June bearers, and flower and set fruit over a longer season. Their harvest tens to peak in early summer, then typically continues (often unevenly) through fall; the exact fruiting pattern depends on the selections. To bring in a big crop of berries, plant in rows -- on flat ground if soil drains well, or on a raised mound (5 - 6 inches high) if soil is heavy or poorly drained. Set plants 14 - 18 inches apart in rows spaced 2 - 2 1/2 feet apart. [Bender, Steve, Southern Living Garden Book, The. Oxmoor House, Inc., Book Division of Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, 1998]
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