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Question About Growing Strawberries In Containers

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Question About Growing Strawberries In Containers (post #18472)

Knarf11 on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:37
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I live in New York State, and I was wondering if it's possible to have strawberries year round if I grow the plants in a pot and bring them inside in winter.

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Strawberries! (post #18472, reply #1 of 1)

by Olivia54984 in reply to Knarf11 [original] on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 17:28

Oh, probably not!

I recently saw a strawberry advertised that because it did not set a lot of runners it was ideal for pot culture.  It might have been in Jung's or Johnny's Select Seeds. 

That said, there are two varieties, June-bearing and everbearing.  If you want to give this a go, I'd pick an ever-bearing variety.  Thing is strawberries need sharp drainage and BEES! I'm sure, that the bloom cycle and flower set has something to do with hours of sunlight.  Bees and sunlight (paintbrushes and LED lighting) aside. Most plants that in the regular setting which go dormant, actually need that period of dormancy.  They may get through one winter without a dormant period, but after depleating all their reserves setting up a handful of strawberries for breakfast  every so often over a dozen or so months, they will probably just die from exhaustion.