Why I Love Wild Strawberries / Alpine Strawberries

[@ThousandYardStare]

Wild strawberries are amazing - they grow anywhere, they taste great and they produce fruit way longer than cultivated varieties. Next season I will be planting them everywhere I currently have cultivated types of strawberries. If you can't find any in the wild or don't want to dig up any from the wild people sell the plants online: ebay.us/Fjovzv .......and you can plant them any time of the year. Also known as Alpine Strawberry and Woodland Strawberry.

[@19YVO]

AWESOME have a wonderfull day greetings from the Netherlands (Vlaardingen)

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@19YVO You too - life is beautiful if you turn off the news, lol

[@mashafasha5796]

@@ThousandYardStare do they pollinate themselves well? If i plant alpines on my land will it stay and spread for decades to come?

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@mashafasha5796 As far as I know they are pollinated by bees etc. but the Alpine Strawberry plants don't produce runners like normal strawberries so need to be divided from the clumps they grow in.

[@Pangaron]

Wild strawberries have a trully magical taste. Really, like a fairytale.

[@ThousandYardStare]

100% - I don't bother buying shop strawberries now as I'd rather not eat a watery version of something Natural.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I planted some alpine strawberries this year, and I can't wait to taste them. Normal strawberries are already one of my favorite fruits, with such an intense flavor -- I'm having trouble wrapping my head around calling them bland by comparison.

[@ThousandYardStare]

They are definitely bland by comparison - to me cultivated varieties taste like soft bags of colored water compared to wild / Alpine strawberries, lol

[@barbarawiddowson635]

Funny I was talking with my sister about these very things yesterday.I was lucky enough to find some on a walk as an eight year old.The flavour was so concentrated.They were amazing.Never forgot them.Never had anything similar since.

[@ThousandYardStare]

Yes they are one of the childhood foods which nothing man-made / cultivated / interbred comes close to and it's the same with chives. They're a perfect blend of onion and garlic taste and so easy to add to any cooking too.

[@pierreshasta1480]

I totally agree, wild strawberries are the best, besides we notice that the smallest varieties of strawberries are often the sweetest. Before growing only wild strawberries, have you tried other varieties like "Mara des bois" which is a cross with the wild strawberry. It is considered one of the best strawberries on the market.

[@ThousandYardStare]

That's one I haven't tried but I'll get some for next year and give them a go. Hopefully the crows will leave those alone. With regard to the wild strawberries I've been harvesting them every 2-3 days and I've noticed that many of the fruit are getting larger as the season goes on. They started out small and are definitely getting bigger the more they are picked - very strange but very welcome.

[@draganarc0131]

Here in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 we have them as well. As a kid we use to travel the road sides along our farm and pick baskets full for mom to make jam. Absolutely delicious. Tonight I showed my wife and kids a nice patch and we spent an hour gorging on them. Tomorrow I’m going to dig some up and plant them in the garden.

[@ThousandYardStare]

That's awesome and best of luck with the garden.

[@RICHBISS]

I’ve got these in our garden. I can agree they are stunning

[@ThousandYardStare]

Everything else in the way of strawberries doesn't compare to these fellas.

[@GigidyGigidy_EIRE]

That's the same principle used for grapes/wine. Harsher conditions, less water = smaller more flavorful fruit. Better conditions, more water = bigger but less flavorsome fruit. They look good! If my crypto takes off over the next few months I'll be getting a setup like yours, some good inspirations in your place 👍

[@ThousandYardStare]

I'm not sure about crypto as it can be so easily taken down by the upcoming 'Russians / Chinese have hacked the internet' plan as outlined recently at Cyber Polygon (from the same people who brought you Event 201 just before the current 'virus' narrative started). Privacy coins may have legs but everything else can be tracked and backdated for tax which is why I'm investing in infrastructure - it is something which allows me to more easily navigate the various agendas playing out now and the ones coming in the near future. We've got hyper inflation happening now although nobody seems to notice but that does not adversely affect the value of infrastructure which is a physical asset. It is no surprise that there has been so many huge CEO's of corporations stepping down or swapping the fiat currency for assets which are tangible (e.g. Gates now being the biggest farm land owner in the US) as they are part of planning the cyber plandemic which will complete the destruction of small to medium business started in early 2020 and instigate the destruction of fiat and crypto currencies in their current form. Crypto is a great idea but most could be gone overnight - if you buy well and get out at the right time it would be great to see but I'm thinking that crypto as we know it may only have 1 or 2 short bull runs left before it collapses. It seems like a bit of a fart on but if you can get Monero or Pirate Chain they seem poised to get huge once the heat comes down on non-privacy coins.

[@GigidyGigidy_EIRE]

@@ThousandYardStare I cant say we agree on ever point but we are both thinking very similarly. I was thinking you sounded like you would be aware of crypto and I'm glad as the world is changing in strange ways. CBDCs being the next, tracking and capabilities of limiting civil rights. There is good in them, but also a lot of bad. I'm expecting a run in Crypto till Nov, then I'm out (possibly earlier)!! You seem to know a bit about it which is good. I'm aware of the tracing/tax properties on blockchains (other than the crypto's you mentioned) but the gains are to big to ignore. The last few years just feels like the frog being slowly brought to the boil (unnoticed). Where as you drop him into boiling water he jumps out!

[@ThousandYardStare]

​@@GigidyGigidy_EIRE For sure, man. We both know something isn't right and the mainstream narrative is BS - that's good enough for me as we're working toward the same goals. CBDC will most definitely be the solution offered for the problem of (fake) hackers and people will beg for that 'solution' after having their digital assets wiped out - problem, reaction, solution yet again, lol How more people can't see that these events are engineered is beyond me as there is always a solution ready to go after the 'reaction' is hyped up by the media and governments to put people into a fear state to get them to beg for the 'solution'. The only way to navigate the nonsense is not to react to the made up crisis and reject the 'solution' offered by the people who caused the 'problem' in the first place - very simple yet so many struggle to see it or act on what they know to be false information. I wish you the best of luck with the crypto a there are definitely still gains to be made. Make a killing then build that infrastructure in place.

[@lburrsshinyhunts2253]

Did your crypto pan out?

[@MadMedico666]

Great video, your passion is evident! We had a wild strawberry plant right outside the house when I was a kid, it bore the tiniest but most amazing fruits. They always bring back fond memories

[@ThousandYardStare]

For sure - they're way better than cultivated varieties of strawberries.

[@clairemcconway6266]

a bird must have helpfully sown one of these in my garden last year - I now have over a dozen plants and can't wait for next summer's harvest!

[@ThousandYardStare]

Awesome stuff - I hope you enjoy them.

[@RayMak]

Looks very yummy

[@ThousandYardStare]

We're pounding through this years harvest now and there are literally thousands of strawberries in the garden now - it's awesome.

[@marycielo7790]

You ate at all.Iam crazy about alpine strawberry and this year it's the first time I am going to planted.

[@ThousandYardStare]

Best of luck with your growing - I'm trying to divide mine every year to spread them all through the garden.

[@wemuk5170]

By the way, I should also thank u fr yr great advice on reflecting light in the garden. Done it. That was a brilliant idea. Thanks so much! 😊🙏🙏🙏

[@ThousandYardStare]

No worries - I just ordered some more mirrors for the big cold frame I constructed over Christmas. Hope to make the video on that one by the end of the week. I don't know where your other comment went to but you asked a question regarding the strawberries and which were the type which produced no runners - that's the Alpine strawberries I was sitting next to at the start and I spread those by division. The ordinary 'wild' strawberries produce a nation of runners. The Alpine strawberries taste better and produce way more, especially when they are in decent sun.

[@wemuk5170]

@@ThousandYardStare Wow, I’m looking forward to it! Thanks for all you do. I should get a notification, hopefully, since I am subscribed. I am so thankful for these videos from you because a lot of what’s on KZbin are from the States, stating, u can grow this/that in zone this or zone that… But we are in UK! Clay, damp, moist clay, clay, clay. 😅 Not in the States with red dry clay or sandy loam. Now I live in southwest Essex in Greater London. My friends in Canada bought acres + acres of land which look just like a forest & the couple have even on forest land to my surprise not loam but red clay. Quite different. The reason for the strawberry question is because where u bought yr strawberry seeds/plants, the website no longer exists. I googled & found (1) Victoriana nursery which sells no-runner (Alexandria) woodland strawberry plugs/plants & (2) Naturescape (which supplied many plants to the Olympics 2012 Park) which sells (native) all-running runners woodland strawberry plugs/plants. Hence the puzzle: European woods or native UK woods. Ok, your alpine is European, then! TQ.

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@wemuk5170 Yes, Alexandria / Woodland / Alpine / European wild strawberry is the one to go for if you're looking for something which produces for most of the year and tastes good. You'll probably find that they produce for longer where you are as opposed to up here in the North. All those zones in the US / CA videos make no sense to me and I still haven't worked out which one would be comparable to our 'zone' here in NE England.

[@eues803]

You are a very lucky person that has this great garden that you built, I would like to taste them, continue posting!!!!! Take care, be safe.

[@ThousandYardStare]

I've been drying the strawberries in a food dehydrator and that is working very well - if anything the taste gets concentrated.

[@eues803]

@@ThousandYardStare you could also make some jelly, this also would be very good.

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@eues803 Yes I will give that a go too - anything to preserve the harvest of fruit and veg will get done as that knowledge and associated skills are something I don't possess presently.

[@tonystephengrayson]

It's not luck if he built it...its hard work

[@RalphAnderson7605]

Absolutely loving these videos! Keep it up, wild strawberries added to the list!

[@ThousandYardStare]

They are top of my list too even though I have them already - the runners will be getting ported to everywhere the cultivated strawberries are ready for next season. Cultivated strawberries aren't worth bothering with as it's all about taste for me.

[@RalphAnderson7605]

Ordered some last night thanks for putting me on to them

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@RalphAnderson7605 Original AND best.

[@Dino_Hunter_420]

My childhood was going forest picking wild strawberries and blueberries and cranberries, then in autumn it was mushroom picking best childhood that one can think about and they taste the same anywhere best strawberries ever

[@ThousandYardStare]

Awesome stuff, tonight we've had smoothies with strawberies and raspberries from the garden - pure power food. Plus I've simmered some blackcurrants, loganberries and tayberries along with some stevia for some cordial so we'll be enjoying that from tomorrow. It's great to grow so much healthy food when I see the muck being passed off as 'food' commercially.

[@rontropics26]

I've planted five different varieties of Alpine strawberry this year. I've never tasted one but can't wait. Hopefully mine are as productive as these.

[@ThousandYardStare]

I didn't even know there were 5 varieties of them, lol - best of luck and I hope they produce plenty for you.

[@audofit]

I'm so excited for my alpine strawberries to ripen - they're starting to flower now :DDDDD

[@ThousandYardStare]

After this cold snap gets over his week we should be full steam ahead with the plant growth. I divided my Alpine strawberries up a few weeks ago and planted a line of them around the bottom of one of the lawns - they're growing well already and are also flowering so hopefully there should be a bumper crop of them this year. They are way more tasty than the cultivated varieties.

[@tonystephengrayson]

I grew some from seed last year. I think they may have been a hybrid type as they dont send out runners. They didn't taste great at all, had white centers and some were pretty hollow. I'll put those into bigger pots this year and hope for the best. I also found actual wild ones and brought those home...they overwintered pretty well so I've got high hopes for those

[@ThousandYardStare]

The ones at the star of his video are wood / Alpine strawberries and the smaller type are the 'wild' variety. The Alpine strawberries don't send out runners so I've spread them around by dividing. I've still got hundreds of runners to plant somewhere from all the other types, lol Hopefully you'll have a tasty crop this year.

[@Indiebeautea]

O hun V w

[@LiliansGardens]

I'm so glad to see you. My friend gave me a tiny one and it's only just producing babies and flowers. I'll give better attention to it if it's gonna be here till frost time. that is incredible The people of Cambridge eh.

[@ThousandYardStare]

lol, I hope nobody gets offended if they're from Cambridge but the wild strawberries are a million times better than cultivated varieties. If they like where they're at and there is little or no competition from other plants they will go mad and be great ground cover. Mine are producing like crazy and I'm drying them in a food dehydrator to sprinkle over cereal or for my son to add to smoothies. The dehydrator has got quartered tomatoes tossed in olive with a dash of salt and pepper in there today so I'll see what that turns out like - looking good so far.

[@Nils31199]

have you tried "mieze schindler" its a old german variety, that tastes like a wild one.

[@ThousandYardStare]

I had never heard of that one but it looks great. There are a few sellers of bare root plants online so I may get some of those. I like anything which isn't some watery GMO abomination, lol

[@robbymoors]

I completely understand how they taste like. I like how you describe it hahaha

[@butywbrainz]

Wonderful 😃!

[@19YVO]

in Dutch we call them "bosaardbeien" "bos" is like the woods and "aardbeien" are strawberries thought it was fun to let you know much love

[@ThousandYardStare]

Nice to know although that first word is a heck of a mouthful even for someone with heritage going back to Vikings and Prussia - I've been living in the UK way too long.

[@2010oblivion1]

Can u post another ebay link? Remember picking these along the river when I was young absolutely lovely.

[@ThousandYardStare]

The person I bought them off is not selling them at present - best time of year to buy is early season or late season - we're in the middle of the season now when plants are putting energy into producing fruit as opposed to putting out runners for new plants. This is the results from ebay today: www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=wild+strawberry+plants&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=wild+strawberries&_osacat=0

[@TiagoSilva-lk7hk]

You said in another comment that there are two types of “wild/woodland/alpine strawberries”, one that does not produce runners and fruits for much longer than the other. Apparently the type that I have is the one that fruits for a short period and sends out a ton of runners. Do you still think it is worth it to grow? Or should I just try to get the type that fruits for much longer and forget the one that I have? Do they taste the same or any of them is better than the other? Thank you in advance.

[@ThousandYardStare]

They taste the same but the Alpine strawberries (which I'm sitting next to at the start of the video) get much bigger fruits and produce crops for much longer. The smaller common wild strawberry plants have a short season since they seem to use their energy to produce a nation of runners which is great if you want lots of plants but not so good if you want lots of fruit. Therefore I'd say that the Alpine strawberries were the best bet if you want better quality fruit and a longer harvesting season. As long as they are divided every 3-4 years they will produce a nation of fruit and they frequently grow from seed around the parent plants.

[@TiagoSilva-lk7hk]

Thank you so much! I just purchased some alpine strawberry seeds today. I couldn’t find any mature plants for sale, so I had to buy seeds. It’s a variety called “Rugen”, that’s what the label says, but I don’t think that matters that much, most varieties of alpine strawberries are probably very similar. It will take some time and patience to grow them but I’m sure the effort will be worth it. Thank you for your help and hope you have good harvests.

[@pondguru]

@@TiagoSilva-lk7hk (my other channel) Are you in the UK? If so I can send you some plants for free since they don't grow very well from seeds unless the seeds just drop naturally where the plants are growing. Every time I've tried to grow strawberries from seeds it has failed so if it fails for you just let me know and I'll send you some bare root plants when I divide mine up a the end of the year - I'll throw in a nation of bare root wild strawberries too as they are all over the place here.

[@TiagoSilva-lk7hk]

That’s very kind of you, thank you. But I’m not in the UK. I’ve planted several seeds, I hope at least some of them sprout.

[@pondguru]

@@TiagoSilva-lk7hk (my other channel) Best of luck with growing them from seed - whenever I've tried growing strawberries from seed they have failed. I think it's best to just throw the seeds onto poor soil and forget about them, lol

[@alexandrastratanphotographer]

this is one of my fave fruits are they easy to grow?

[@ThousandYardStare]

Yes, the Alpine Strawberry is divided to propagate it but the common wild strawberry produces a nation of runners. From a couple of plants at the edge of one of my vegetable beds I've got hundreds of plants from runners in one season. I re-plant the bigger runners around the garden but end up throwing most of them over the fence to grow wild.

[@Ingenti314]

These are not wild strawberries but rather a different species called fragaria vesca or colloquially woodland/apline strawberry. Regular strawberries are fragaria x ananassa which is a hybrid between two american species fragaria virginiana and fragaria chiloensis.

[@ThousandYardStare]

That's bang on, thanks - the strawberries in the bed at the start definitely aren't 'wild strawberries' as I've found through the year as they produce differently and don't put any runners out like the wild strawberries do. The wild strawberries I've got in various pots put a nation of runners out and their fruiting season is much shorter than the Alpine Strawberries which still have flowers and unripe fruit on right into December.

[@CampingforCool41]

I ate wild strawberries every summer as a kid, although ours only fruited once, not continuously like alpine strawberries.

[@CampingforCool41]

You were looking for a way to describe the taste: I don’t know if you guys have Pez candy in Europe but the alpine strawberries we grew in a container this year tasted exactly like it.

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@CampingforCool41 100% - like Pez candy without all the 'E' numbers, lol

[@souljahaden6184]

I think the wild strawberries must grow better in shady wetter conditions like the UK whilst most cultivated varieties like the sun more in order for them to start producing tons of sugar and require more daylight for a high brix level, But I recently planted some alpine strawberries and I’m going to find how well they do and taste in my climate.

[@ThousandYardStare]

It's all about experimenting - Just see what works in your garden. I've got various types of strawberries planted all over my garden and they all produce fruit to one degree or another. The sun definitely does help more with cultivated varieties but I don't have many of them now.

[@souljahaden6184]

@@ThousandYardStare also are these fragaria Vesca and did you pick the flowers off until later in the season or did you let them be?

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@souljahaden6184 I have never picked the flowers off the plants - I just leave them and they continue to produce a ridiculous amount of fruit.

[@dianejohnston3733]

Hi I have been growing mine from seed on a windowsill - about 2 month on and they are tiny - like tip of your nail tiny. In your experience is it worth persevering or should I bin them and get some plug plants?

[@ThousandYardStare]

They will often stay very small for months indoors but when planted out into natural conditions they'll grow well, especially when they get direct sunlight and rain water on them. I've never had success growing them from seed, only by division, so I just rely on having a few good parent plants and dividing from there for the Alpine strawberries (which don't produce runners) and from runners for the native wild strawberries.

[@dianejohnston3733]

@@ThousandYardStare thank you 🙏 for your reply - I’ll put the tray outside and hope nature does it’s trick and brings them on - will order plug plants as too impatient to wait!

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@dianejohnston3733 Initially the majority of the perennials I've got growing here were plugs so it's a great way to make a fast start - definitely a good move and I wish you the best of luck with the garden.

[@anonymouse74]

Think I’ve got a wild strawberry plant growing in my back yard. I almost pulled it up thinking it was a weed, but thought hang on, that looks like a strawberry plant, I’ll leave it. I think I can see the start of a tiny strawberry growing now. Not that I’ll see it reach maturity as there’s a ton of slugs in my back yard at night. But I’m still leaving it 😆

[@ThousandYardStare]

Hopefully it will grow but if it produces fruit it probably won't last long when there are slugs about.

[@anonymouse74]

@@ThousandYardStare no it definitely won’t. Although after watching another yt video, I think it might be a mock strawberry plant anyway. I can’t remember what colour the flowers were, but I’m sure they were yellow not white. So no loss lol. Might try and grow some again (away from the slugs ;) )

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@anonymouse74 If you can keep them away from the slugs Wild Strawberries will grow anywhere so best of luck with that project.

[@anonymouse74]

@@ThousandYardStare if all else fails I have a blackberry bush in my front garden. I say bush, it’s more of a very long ‘trailing ‘branch’ lol. I used to have a hedge at the front that I cut down, and the blackberries used to intermingle with the hedge. I never got anything off it because of spiders 🕷 😫 But now it’s growing again as a stand alone ‘branch’ so I might see if I can get anything off it eventually. It’s started producing shoots off it now. It’s so thorny though, and they hurt if you get pricked by them, so I can’t do much with it, other than push it out of the way when I’m weeding my garden which I did yesterday. No doubt something else will get to them before I do as well 🤣

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@anonymouse74 My house is called Briardene and when we moved in it was besieged by Blackberry bushes which I've spent 20+ years clearing out year on year. I'm not a fan of them since they produce very little fruit. The cultivated thornless varieties are what I go for if I'm planting in the garden and this year they have a nation of fruit on them which will be ready in the next month or so but the look of it.

[@MercyCagara]

my first time to see it, hope to also taste it.. i don't see any from asian countries.

[@ThousandYardStare]

That's a shame as they are a great tasting fruit and very easy to grow. In a climate which was better than the UK they would fruit all year.

[@retro5533]

If the crows are pecking away at your regular strawberries and not the smaller ones makes me wonder if they were just thirsty and could use a drink.

[@ThousandYardStare]

I definitely considered that option but the field in front of me is literally a lake, lol I think they just like the taste of the cultivated strawberries. Strangely I haven't had any pest damage in my garden or greenhouse this year so far when everyone else is getting their gardens savaged by all manner of pests.

[@claudialautenslager8695]

We have Jolly Ranchers also.

[@claudialautenslager8695]

@@ThousandYardStare Yes, my favorite is green apple.

[@wemuk5170]

I hope to buy lots of alpine strawberry plugs for planting soon. Tell me please, how far apart did you plant them? They seem very close together, or is it ok, if they are overcrowded? How far apart is ideal then?

[@ThousandYardStare]

Since making this video I've divided these plants up and planted the excess plants in another border about 8" apart - that seems fine and the newly planted strawberry plants produced loads of fruit this year. They seem to grow well close together and ripen no problem as long as they're in a decent sunny position. You could probably go 6" apart in an offset planting pattern in a raised bed and get plenty of yield from them.

[@wemuk5170]

@@ThousandYardStare Sunny position to fruit? Oh dear, my garden gets just 2 hours of sun, as most of it is in dappled shade of neighbours’ towering trees. And I thought the whole point of opting to plant woodland strawberries in my case, is, they can still fruit in partial shade unlike conventional, cultivated species. I live in UK, too, in Greater London.

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@wemuk5170 They will still fruit in partial shade but I've found they produce more (and for longer) when it is sunny and relatively sheltered. Under dappled shade they will be fine.

[@wemuk5170]

@@ThousandYardStare Thanks! That’s a relief to know. Hm, I think I will need to research more, to find out how to use a mirror in the garden to maximise (reflected) sunlight on them then. Plan to grow a patch of wild strawberries this coming spring. If only someone makes a KZbin video on how to use mirors for growing vege & berries in shade… for more ‘light’ … If you know any such video/blog, to maximise light for fruiting, I’ll be extremely grateful to know! Otherwise it’ll just be fruitless; it’ll just be a good-looking ‘strawberry-leave’ plant!

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@wemuk5170 I use mirrors to focus the late afternoon light on some of my solar panels and it definitely works. Between the 2 x 19 panel systems there can be up to 1kW more produced by the system with reflectors on. I'm intending to add at least another 20 reflectors more than I currently have but the mirrored perspex I use for reflectors is now very expensive - the price of perspex went through the roof during the covaids plandemic and it hasn't dropped back to a sensible price yet. Luckily I bought quite a few mirrored pieces of perspex while it was still affordable but the rest may have to wait. I even installed a large mirror on the back of the hen coop to fire some sunlight in the general direction of the solar panels but it mostly hits the fruit trees so it's all good for them.

[@Coolguyallthetime2k]

Do these produce fruit well in part shade like I’ve heard? Like 4 hours of sun?

[@ThousandYardStare]

Yes no problem although the amount of fruit does diminish with increased shade. I used to grow mine in partial shade but the yield definitely increased when I moved them to full sun.

[@Coolguyallthetime2k]

@@ThousandYardStare thanks

[@angie7278]

My backyard is FULL of them! I was told they weren’t edible 😡

[@pondguru]

(my other channel) If they are strawberries all types of them are perfectly edible but best to check before eating them if you're not sure.

[@dtvking]

I bet you said to the wife "just going to make a short video in the garden" Any excuse to go and eat all the wild 🍓 before anyone else 🤣 Your not wrong with the shop brought plants, this years ours have been a total waist of time so far, flavourless even when very ripe. Good luck with those little beautys.

[@ThousandYardStare]

For sure and I'm planting the cultivated varieties elsewhere (probably around my pond) in favor or the wild strawberries for next season. I've been using a dehydrator for the wild strawberries and keeping them in a mason jar - my wife loves them for topping off yogurt, muesli etc. or even as a snack.

[@ferbsol2334]

true

[@thomasplays5734]

Hello where did you get the seeds for wild strawberries?

[@pondguru]

Wild strawberries grow all over the place in the UK so I got small plants from local hedgerows in the Winter when other bigger plants had died back.

[@pondguru]

With regard to the Alpine strawberries I think I got those from a garden I was landscaping many years ago. They don't produce any runners and have to be propagated by division which is easy to do. I've tried growing strawberries of all types from seed but never had any luck but by planting the runner plants from the wild strawberries and dividing up the Alpine strawberries I've got both types all over the garden now.

[@Hunter-ll6bx]

A lot of wild edibles taste far better than you get in the store. Wild black cap raspberries are the thing to go for where I am.

[@ThousandYardStare]

Given the choice of wild food or store bought food I'd go wild every time - same with self grown vegetables / fruit over store bought produce. When it comes from a store it could have any sort of pesticide / herbicide / GMO nonsense in it.

[@thomasplays5734]

Is this fragaria vesca?

[@ThousandYardStare]

It is a minefield looking for Alpine Strawberries as opposed to common wild strawberries since the first returns from a Google search will bring up sites (Wikipedia etc.) which say that all the wild forms of strawberries are the same when they are not. There is a wild form which produces runners and stays very small and there is another type generally described as a woodland / Alpine strawberry which needs to be propagated by splitting the parent plant. I have both types and the Alpine strawberries which need to be divided from the parent plant definitely have the bigger fruits and have a longer fruiting season. Maybe online they are both described as fragaria vesca but that's only half the story. The Alpine strawberries are definitely the ones to go for if you're looking for decent yields and a long fruiting season. You really have to get them from someone who knows the difference and can send you something which isn't a common wild strawberry. You can get common wild strawberries from every roadside or hedgerow in the UK if you know what to look for but the Alpine strawberries are a different story. If you're in the UK just let me know and I can send you some of the proper Alpine Strawberries no problem. For free.

[@Thebigmanmetaldetecting]

That's a thank you to Monsanto mate

[@ThousandYardStare]

God bless Monsanto - they're doing their best to starve the World and kill the life of the soil for future generations. Nothing to see here.....

[@Thebigmanmetaldetecting]

@@ThousandYardStare never a truer word spoken mate

[@hibiscusangel7376]

Where does it come from?

[@ThousandYardStare]

I got most of my wild strawberries from other people's gardens but the Alpine strawberries are definitely nicer than the native wild strawberries.

[@anjelikanath9764]

Did they produce runners?

[@ThousandYardStare]

This variety did not produce any runners yet every other type in the garden did produce a nation of runners. This variety produced strawberries well into December which is really strange. I vaguely remember digging these up somewhere I was working but haven't found a variety which produces for so long since.

[@anjelikanath9764]

@@ThousandYardStare thank you so much for letting me know about the Albion variety.May you grow more and more happiness in your garden

[@ThousandYardStare]

@@anjelikanath9764 I wish you happiness with your garden too.

[@anjelikanath9764]

@@ThousandYardStare thanks friend

[@kjdempsey]

There comes a time in a man’s life when the fruits of nature aren’t always gonna be there! Sometimes the bread must be broken in order to get back to the land of milk and honey

[@thairinkhudr4259]

What does this mean?

[@wemuk5170]

@@thairinkhudr4259Maybe he mixed up his words with typo errors. 😜Replace bread with back and back with bread… and he makes sense. 😅 You can’t take nature’s best goodies (wild strawberries) for granted? You have to work hard + go, plant them yourself?

[@mattfern8675]

They taste so strong, you'd think they were artificial.

[@ThousandYardStare]

100% - they are so much better than cultivated varieties.

[@blackkennedy3966]

That’s funny because banana candy is the same the flavour is based off gros michel instead of cavendish, I bet strawberry candy is based off wild strawberry taste.

[@wayne251975]

Sad that most of my yard here in Alabama is mainly wild strawberries instead of grass...

[@ThousandYardStare]

Sounds like the struggle is real - I'd be crying all the way to the garden then I'd take my fill of strawberries and survive another day, lol

[@Nitzagoat]

Which verioty is that

[@ThousandYardStare]

The one I'm sitting next to is Alpine strawberry and that's the one which doesn't produce runners so needs to be divided once every 1-2 years if you want to spread it around. That's the one which produces for most of the year and the fruit is bigger than the smaller common 'wild' strawberry which produces a nation of runners.

[@tidelybumsquish]

I found a massive batch. Here in ontario I found a small variety that tastes like banana honest to god

[@ThousandYardStare]

Wow that sounds amazing.

[@RICHBISS]

I have always said that the supermarket strawberries are absolutely tasteless. All these cultivated varieties etc. In fact the plastic pack they come in has probably got more calorific value!

[@ThousandYardStare]

Probably right there, man. I find I eat much less when the food is organic and has proper nutritional value.

[@tedscott1478]

I'm sorry to tell you, but it is illegal to dig up wild plants like that in England.

[@johnboyajian1689]

I would be scared to death to try a wild strawberry.

[@ThousandYardStare]

There's nothing else in the UK which looks the same and produces red fruits so it's safe here. However, I believe there's a similar plant in the US which is not edible.