Wild Strawberry Plants

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberry Plants not only have the best strawberry flavour, but they are very easy to grow. The common larger strawberries are called "Garden Strawberries" which are a hybrid species, and while they taste good they are not as easy to keep healthy nor do they have as strong a flavour as the wild variety does. Also, the wild varieties are much more fragrant.

You might be able to find wild plants somewhere but it is a lot easier to buy the seeds online and just grow them yourself. It's very easy to start them from seeds. If growing indoors you can surface sow the seeds onto some most soil/peat mixture. In two to three weeks the seeds will start to sprout. If you start them outdoors make sure it is in the cooler months, such as late summer or from the spring to early summer. They take a lot longer to germinate if the weather is too hot. 

If your strawberry seeds are started in the spring then you will have berries that year before the fall. Wild strawberries continue to produce berries until the first frost hits. The second year you will get a lot more berries. Birds and other animals love these berries so building some sort of screen or netting around them might be necessary.

You can buy wild strawberry seeds (woodland), and alpine strawberry seeds from these links. Alpine strawberries are also found in the wild and as the name suggests they can tolerate colder winters. They tend to produce more berries than the woodland variety. I have both varieties and I'm not sure which one I prefer over the other, since they are both great. Also, both varieties seem to be very disease resistant and also drought resistant. I use to grow garden strawberries and they were also getting leaf rust and being attacked by pests, but the wild varieties do much better. I live in Canada and the plants do well here. They will do fine as long as your climate experiences below zero or near zero temperature in the winter months. The plants need a dormant period at least for a few weeks in order to thrive.