- DELIVERY INFO: If you order spring plants today we expect to ship from mid-May onwards. - See FAQs for more info.
Strawberry Plants – Cambridge Favourite (mid season)
3 Plants (7cm Bio-pots)
- Perfect for pots, planters & hanging baskets
- Plants come in biodegradable pots
- Pick strawberries from the 1st year
Estimated delivery from mid-May
£4.99
A popular strawberry variety for a reason
This is an amazingly popular mid-season variety of strawberry, because it produces reliable a crop of juicy red strawberries that are a good size and just the right level of sweet. It does well in most UK garden conditions, whether growing in pots or beds.
Number of plants: 3 plants (7cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Cambridge Favourite
Can be grown in: Plant in the garden, containers, window boxes or grow bags. Find out more about growing strawberries in our growing guide below.
In the kitchen: These strawberries are delicious picked fresh from the garden and served with lashings of Cornish clotted cream! Yummy yummy yummy!
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Everything you need to know about these plants
Delivery & FAQ’s
If you order now we would estimate delivery from mid-late May.. Please see FAQs for up-to-date delivery info.
About the plants
Strawberry plants come in biodegradable fibre pots that can be planted straight into the soil
How to grow strawberry plants
You should get at least 3 seasons of strawberries from one strawberry plant.
Choose a nice sunny, sheltered spot for strawberries (if it’s too windy, they won’t receive many pollinating visitors!) Growing them in containers in a greenhouse works well, or in rows in the garden with a cloche for extra warmth.
Plant them 30-40cm apart.
Water well and frequently when you first plant them. Thereafter, make sure they are watered well when it’s dry and give them a tomato feed every fortnight.
When they start to flower, make sure greenhouse windows and doors are opened, and cloches removed during the day so that pollinating insects can get to them to do their work!
When the fruits start to form, add a layer of straw around the base of the plant so that the berries don’t start to rot if they touch the soil.
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[post_content] => Yes! We often receive queries from customers asking whether or not it is okay to harvest strawberries from first year plants, but you absolutely can.
If you planted earlier in the year, you may already have a few to harvest and it is absolutely fine to do so. Likewise, if you receive strawberry plants in the near future that are flowering/fruiting, simply plant them in pots or beds, and you can harvest any that ripen over the next few weeks. You probably won't get a huge amount from each plant this year, but next year the plants will be more productive.
In addition to this, at the end of the summer, your strawberry plants (let's call them parent plants) will start to put out runners. You can either let the runners take root in your strawberry patch, or you can plant them into pots. There's more on that in a separate post about strawberry runners, but what essentially happens if you leave them to take root is that next spring you'll have extra plants. Let's call them the baby plants. You'll be able to harvest from both parent plant and baby plants next season, so your crop will naturally be bigger next year.
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[post_content] => You can either grow strawberries using strawberry runners or strawberry plants. Right now at Rocket Gardens, we've got lots of runners for you to choose from.
A strawberry runner is basically a small section of a strawberry root. These runners are taken from last season's healthy strawberry plants (there are 6 varieties available on our website so take your pick!)
When the runners arrive, they will literally look like small pieces of bare root because that's what they are. All you'll need to do is plant each runner in a 9cm pot of good quality compost, give them a little watering and pop them indoors on a sunny windowsill or in a greenhouse. Continue to water them every so often so that the compost doesn't dry out and as spring approaches you'll start to see a couple of leaves appearing. When all risk of frost is over you can plant them out into their final position, either straight into the ground/raised bed, or into a larger pot or container.
We send you further strawberry growing information with your runners or plants.
Growing strawberries using runners is great as you see the plant grow from the very, very early stages. It's also a nice indoor activity to do with younger children over the colder months, and keeps them off the iPad for a few minutes!
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