Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) seeds
- The best strawberries that you can imagine. Small but really highly aromatic.
- Contents: Approx. 300 seeds
- Open-pollinated variety, seed tested regularly
Regular price:
€2.59
Product number: FRA01 GTIN: 4250601202303
Description
The Wild Strawberries (Frasca Vesca) growing wildly in Central Europe belong to the most delicious fruits you can let melt in your mouth.
The flavour can't be compared with larger cultivated forms as the small fruits are simply unrivalled aromatic.
The fruits are perfectly suitable for raw consumption and are especially popular with children as the collecting and finding of the sweet berries is a lot of fun. They're also well usable for strawberry sauces or marmalade when they're grown in larger quantities.
A good tea that has a soothing effect on tummy bugs can be made out of the leaves of the plant.
Wild strawberries form many stolons and tend to spread strongly when they aren't constrained. Preferably, they grow in bright half-shade and protective hedges or trees and shrubs.
The flavour can't be compared with larger cultivated forms as the small fruits are simply unrivalled aromatic.
The fruits are perfectly suitable for raw consumption and are especially popular with children as the collecting and finding of the sweet berries is a lot of fun. They're also well usable for strawberry sauces or marmalade when they're grown in larger quantities.
A good tea that has a soothing effect on tummy bugs can be made out of the leaves of the plant.
Wild strawberries form many stolons and tend to spread strongly when they aren't constrained. Preferably, they grow in bright half-shade and protective hedges or trees and shrubs.
Plant profile
| Lifecycle | Hardy, Perennial |
|---|---|
| Species | Rosaceae |
| Eventual height | 5-50 cm |
| Flower colour | White |
| Flowering months | April, June, May |
| Main harvest | July, June, May |
| Root system | Runners, Shallow roots |
Growing instructions
| When to sow outdoors | April, June, May |
|---|---|
| Sowing depth | 0 cm |
| Germination temperature | 18-24° C |
| Germination time | 2-6 weeks |
| Sunlight | Full sun, Shade |
| Planting distance | 20 cm |
| Good companion plants | Borage, Bush beans, Chives, Knoblauch, Leek, Lettuce, Onion, Radish, Spinach |
Sowing and care
- Sowing indoors in pots in spring. The seeds are light germinators and are only pressed onto the soil lightly. For germinating, +20°C is required.
- Wild strawberries are hardy and evergreen.
- This variety reaches up to 15cm in height and needs approx. 20cm of planting distance (25 plants per m²).
- Wild strawberries are perennial.
- The wild strawberry prefers sunny to half-shady locations and needs moist but permeable, nutrient and humous-rich soils.
Other names
Botanical name: Fragaria vesca, Potentilla vesca, Dactylophyllum fragaria
German: Wald-Erdbeere, Monatserdbeere, Buscherdbeere, Ardbeere, Besingkraut, Bresling, Flohbeere, Knickbeere, Prestling, Rote Besinge, Rotbeer, Waldbeere
English: Wild strawberry, Woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry, Fraise des bois
French: Fraisier des bois
Italian: Fragola di bosco
Spanish: Fresa salvaje, Frutilla silvestre
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