How To Grow AMAZING Strawberries! 

Love the crown tip to spread roots!

There is no reason not to grow strawberries! They’re my favorite VEGETABLE... I got 80 bare roots for $25 on amazon and they’re doing great! Now I’m at the point where I’m using some of my strawberry plants to creat runners.

The song made me cry (because of the painful situation I'm going through) but you may have helped me save my strawberry plants that I moved inside. I covered around them more, and they started to really die out. Looks like I buried them too deep. So, I cleared out dirt from their crowns, and hopefully they will come back. 🤞🤞🤞

Mykos must be the magic ingredient. I just started watching strawberry videos and this is the first time I saw it mentioned. My raspberries are great this year so I am going to focus on strawberry’s next year next to it. They have never done well in my garden. Thank you for your channel.

the BEST video on youtube.... on understanding strawberries, their differences...and HOW TO GROW THEM...and help.... them thrive!!!! thank you james!!!!!! please keep it coming! we appreciate you so much!

That cone shaped mound is such a great tip. Thank you!

Avett Bros at 3:00…. Nice touch. I love your videos James. I have a 1/3 acre lot and grow as much food as I can.

Great info on variety and how they grow. Thanks so much for clarifying that we plant directly into the "soil" and not the woodchips. Many people don't know that. Excellent info!!! 👍🏽

THANK YOU for addressing where, when and at what stage you recommend acquiring / planting strawberries. So helpful! Love Tuck!

Thanks for showing us how to plant strawberries. It helps so much to actually see someone do something instead of just reading about it. Love your videos James!

Hi James that was a great tip, creating a little mound in the planting hole. I covered all my strawberry plants in wood chip a month ago like Paul Gautschi recommended , they have all popped up from under the wood chip looking lushes and green with many flower buds. My soil is sandy like yours, I rely on the many oak trees I have to provide me with a rich source of carbon, Thank you James.

Awesome man!! You said you might do this, and I’m so glad you did! Right on!!

Definitely need a gardening buddy. Mine is a mini dachshund named Hansi. 😃 I’m moving my strawberries this year. The voles have dug all through their area so it’s time to shake thing up !

That was just so peaceful and soothing to watch. Beautiful music and beautiful weather. Thank you for sharing your life and knowledge!

Love the background music you play in your videos; how about crediting it and any other relevant products, etc. on specific videos in the description?

Love strawberries! Wood chips will compost over time and build organic material that plants love. “Strawberry plants can be directly covered over with wood chips after they are spent for the season. In the spring the new green will pop through while the old will compost creating energy.” Paul Gautschi. Great video!

I live north of Seattle and a few years ago we drove down to Raintree Nursery which is near Mt. St. Helens. It’s a great Nursery.

Tea time when i see your video in my line up. Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.

I can’t even tell you how much I appreciate this video! Step by step is exactly what I need. I do have one question.....when you plant your strawberry plants, can I use another type of fertilizer? My green thumb Mother-in-law used to sprinkle a little bit of Miracle Gro in a circle around each plant about 2-3” from them. I love all your videos, but this one in particular.

I got some bare root and planted them just recently, maybe 2 days ago im worried they wont grow cuz the little nubs had no sign of life, the crown was hard but it didnt have anything sprouting out from it like a lot of the bare root you see in videos that already have tiny sprouts. The package had soil in with them that was pretty moist but not too wet...

Hi James! I'm a new subscriber and I love how you've poured your heart into your amazing gardens! Thank you so much for letting us in and teaching us from all your experiences. Cheers from Northern Ontario Canada. 😊 keep up the great videos and work.

I haven't grown strawberries in a few years---I will definitely use your method this time, thanks! ~~Leslie

I love your encouragement I have been a working gardener pretty much my working life and I live when I come across such passionate people who love horticulture. Keep it up old boy.

Jewel strawberries are great!

I'm glad you explained about pulling back the woodchips. I was wondering about that.

June Bearing strawberries are one of my fav :) Thanks for sharing James. I love your videos.

Those are going to be some super happy Strawberry plants! Mykos is awesome! :)

Love, love your videos. I just started working on my yard to grow my own food forest. I have an abundance of pine needles. I have been putting them between some of my already built raised beds from last year. I am also interested to know what your front yard looks like? Tuck is so cute!

I see I'm not the only one saying this...thank you for the cone tip!!! LOVE your food forest. I'm starting my very first this year, inspired by you. Many thanks!

Hi James, I'm planting strawberries today! I'd watched this video before, and checked it out again to know just what to do. Thank you.

Hi James! I wish I had seen this video before I planted my strawberries :-) But it's alright, I got them in over a week ago. I didn't spread out the roots like you showed but thankfully most of them seem to be doing well and some are already flowering too. I see that I have a lot of videos to catch up on now - you've been posting like mad! That is awesome, can't wait to watch them all. I've been busy myself, doing a lot of work in the garden finally. I'm so excited - this is my first real year growing things. The raspberries are going crazy, seems like there will be a good harvest.

I like that 'cone-stool' for the roots. Thanks for another good one. Keep it fresh, James 😎

Great tips on planting bare root strawberries and shoeing how to planting them. Thanks for the video!

WoW! Did'nt know there were so many types of strawberrys..did't know about bare root either...This is great!

Great video - thanks for sharing! Here in the Pacific Northwest we have two native strawberries. One is the coastal strawberry and the other is the woodland strawberry. The coastal does really well in poor well drained soils (think sandy coastal soils) - this type is also very drought tolerant. I use this on the south side of a hugel bed I built as a hedgerow in an old gravel parking lot along a dirt road. They have spread amazingly well and I have transplanted a bunch of the runner plants to my new hugel bed. I did pick off all the flowers last year (their first year) to encourage them to spread and not spend energy on fruiting but this year I'm going to let them flower so I can get some fruits. The woodland strawberry prefers partial shade or full shade and naturally grows in forests. I'm waiting for my new food forest to get a canopy developed and then I plan to plant these to get a good crop in the shade. It is not as drought tolerant as the coastal strawberry but will do fine in a more established food forest. Both of these strawberries produce smaller fruits than the cultivated varieties. But the coastal strawberry's fruits are actually much sweeter than the cultivated varieties. The woodland strawberry is sweet but not as sweet - I still like it and since it handles full shade it fills a niche that other strawberries won't. The alpine strawberry you mentioned James is similar to these two varieties but is found wild in higher and colder climates. I have a couple of these plants that I got for free - I like them okay but the coastal is so far my favorite since it is super sweet and spreads really well. I have also found that it roots through thick mulch without any trouble. Thanks again for sharing - always enjoy watching your videos and I'm very impressed by your food forests. I'm going to be launching a blog soon showing what I'm doing on my place and a lot of it has been inspired by your videos. I built a fence along the front of my property using the same technique you highlighted in an earlier video. As a restoration ecologist I tend to focus a bit more on native plants but I still plant a ton of food producing non-native plants - I just mix natives in where I can :) Plus, at least in the Pacific Northwest we have a ton of great edible native plants.

Give Tuck a kiss from me. He is a prescious being! Blessings.

Thank you for the inspiration & for playing The Avett Bros music 💚💚💚💚💚

I just came in from our new garden from planting strawberries and saw the notification for this video! Great timing.

I have never had much luck with strawberries. Think I'll give em another try. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this, now I know what to do with my strawberries next spring. I didn't get much fruit at all from my potted strawberries, but I did get lots of runners, so free plants for next year 🍓🌿

I want to recommend the ft. Laramie strawberry. That cultivar is tenacious and can really compete!

James, I’m new to your channel and have watched several videos, but can you tell me what books you read to gain your knowledge? Is there a video where you tell? Also is there other channels you would suggest for a newbie. I want to do this in my backyard and want to educate myself.Thanks in advance and love the info you share. Your forest is awesome.

Thank you James, your video making efforts are greatly appreciate.

Dude, this is my favorite video of yours so far. Good information, well laid-out, and your on-screen presence is definitely improving (not that it was bad to begin with, but you can for sure tell you're getting better with each video). Love the music choice, too. Keep on keepin' on.

I live in the Ozarks so of course I got grow Ozark Beauty!

Cone shaped mound + powdered potions for optimal growing and production, this is garden magic.

Enjoyed your post as usual!

Thanks I didn't know much about what type of strawberries to try

You could give tours of your efforts. Love your passion! From SoCal.

Hey James, We have a question about pests on your strawberries and want to tell you how you have inspired us. We have a 4 x 4 fire pit ring that I first started with that grows lots of strawberries, but the ants, mini slugs, and small snails eat holes in all of them before I can get to them. Since we watched this video we bought 50 jewel strawberry bare roots crowns and I prepared a huge garden for them using your food forest chip method. I just don't want my hard work going to these bugs. Do you have any advice in keeping these pests from eating them? We have been watching all your videos because we are starting a food forest also. We are 2 years in. You have inspired us in many ways with your videos including the tomatoes on the strings method. I built a 3 run 7 ft high, 50 foot tomato arbor based on your instructions also. There are 72 indeterminate tomatoes in there. We now have 22 fruit trees (plum, peach, apple, pear, apricot, etc.), 100 everbearing raspberries, choke berries, goose berries, black berries, 40 asparagus, and blueberry bushes. We also hit the jackpot on wood chips where a local arborist has a wood chip landfill that he gave us access to get as manly truckloads of chips as we want. Thank you for your advice in finding arborists. We are off to a good start and we want to thank you very much for your guidance. We don't have a Tuck, but we do have a Glock :D. He is our Saint Bernard. Unlike Tuck, Glock can make a mess of a garden in no time. LOL. Thank you for your help in advance in regards the strawberry pests.

Little mounds...awesome!

I am about to plant my strawberries down

Hi James! Next time u do strawberry’s like that (naket root) try in a few cutting the roots half way! I didn’t believe it would be better but did it in a few I planted this year and they are doing better then the ones I didn’t cut the roots...

As always great video and really great tips. Especially the cone of dirt to spread the roots over.

Great content as usual James.Keep making great videos. They inspire !!

great info. thanks for sharing.

James, love all your videos! When your pinching off the flowers to produce more runners, do you just pinch off the flower or are you pinching off the entire stem the flower cluster is on?

I planted 20 and 15 died, I'm going to try your method. Thanks. I love your videos!

James , Thank you for all you do to encourage growing. I appreciate your videos and all your hard work! I was wondering how much property you suggest to get started on a journey with a food forest?

Very well made video buddy thank you !

What type of marking system are you using, James, so that you can keep up with what you're planting where you're planting? Thanks.

Wonderful. Thank you James.

The Ozarks are in the northern part of my state does that mean ozark beauty berries would work well here

It really filling out James, Beautiful Food Forest! ;)

Garden Buddy...I have about a dozen...al stray cats that now belong to me (or maybe I belong to them).

I know that this is an old vlog but would you please share where you got your bare root varieties? I ordered mine and it’s my first year growing but would like to add additional varieties . Thanks for all the great info.

Strawberries are on my agenda....

James, where do get your bare root strawberry plants?

I just put some strawberries in my garden, thanks for the inspiration man! 🤘🏽💚

That soil looks awesome. Is that why they call NJ the garden state?

I can't forget to get some alpine berries in the ground.Your gardens looking sweet

I got some roots at home Depot and they were great

I like the music mixed in here n there.. Well done! :)

Love me some strawberries.looks like i wont be waiting too much longer.oowwee

s nj here.. my chickens get to the berries before i can....... ;)

I just watched a BUNCH of your videos and I wanted to ask if there was a reason you explained earlier that you aren't using compost tea sprays on your fruit trees. Im in an area where bees spread fireblight and that was the only thing that really seemed to help, and if you spray your trees once a week or so it'll probably colonize them with enough beneficial fungi and bacteria that the scab won't be a problem on your apples anymore! It worked pretty well for me at my old place (zone 8a and alterntaing humid and drought, so stressed plants). If you have a reason for not making compost teas, though, I'd love to hear it!

Wonderful, I just can’t get enough of your videos, I’m learning so much. Quick question, I bought the Mykos inoculant and put some straight into the root, the. I had this ‘genius’ idea of pooring some water so that the Mykos would stick to the roots and this smoke came out of it. Thoughts?

Love how you say “Wuter”

Happy New Year James, what are the best varieties to grow in the north east???

Thanks man, you’ve inspired me to create a good forest and now I know more about planting strawberries. Is that you singing in the background music?

Will you gradually increase the depth of the wood chips as the plant grows? If not, how do you ever get a fairly level food forest?

Oh man! I would love that violet! Hard to find here

So awesome!!

Good to see your "garden buddy" giving you a company. Is he a vegetarian?

Very informative 👍🏽

Great video, I have to plant some now. Not sure if they will survive in AZ.

Great, i am watching your videos and starting to look for a place to buy where i can grow my forest! I may have one... (where do you find those woodchips?)

I like your intro😂very nice 👍🏻

Maybe use a cup to make the mount

Enjoyed the Video and seeing blessed Tuck. Thanks. Alice. Cherokee Nation N.E. OK.

Beautiful flag.

When you refer to “black leaf mulch,” do you mean composted leaves or some product?

What's a good strawberry for Arizona where I get the berries all year?

Few

Do you use Mykos for other fruit trees like Persimmon, Guava etc?

Do you pick all the flowers? And how do you cut them? Do you use pruners?

"extreme gardening MYKOS!"

james - which kind of mykos do you recommend - granular, wettable powder, or root pak ?? thanks for your excellent videos !

Hi, good Wisches from Germany. One question: wich woodships do you pervers in your Garden? Thanks JuRe

Hey my strawberrys are very small.what do you fertilizer with ?