Strawberry
Fresa · Fraise
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Height
- low (< 40 cm)
- Shape
- compact
- Roots
- shallow
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- perennial
- Grows in
- summer or winter beds
- Feeds
- medium feeder
Jobs in the bed
- Covers the soilShades the soil, keeps moisture in and holds weeds back. Best on the edge of the bed.
Rotation
Do not return Rosaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years.
✓ Good neighbours
✗ Keep apart
None listed.
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ BoragePowerful bee/pollinator magnet; pollinator flowers have been shown to raise strawberry yield & quality Large plant, self-seeds freely
- ✿ ThymeLow ground cover; flowers feed bees & beneficial insects
- ✿ ChivesSlim, shallow roots fit between other crops; flowers attract bees Perennial clump: put it where it can stay for years