Enjoying some driveway strawberries

they just live in the rocks along side our garage. We didnt put them there.

Nice!!!

They are heavy feeders with shallow roots -- dump compost around them and a light straw mulch on top, and keep them watered, and they will feed you until freeze-up!

And if they are happy, they will send out a ton of runners, the new plants that are the most productive in fruit production. Give them a place to root!

😂 I have driveway strawberries too! 😂

Last summer I was trying to kill some grass in our driveway so I put some sheet much down and then a bunch of potted strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and flowers on top of that. It worked to kill the grass but when I moved all the pots and mulch out of the way this winter, instead of grass, I now had a driveway of strawberries.

A couple months ago I pulled up all the ones that were growing in the middle of the driveway and stuck them in random leftover 4" pots. There ended up being about 40 pots! I gave them a month to see if they survived the rough transplanting and then brought them all to church and made people take them home with them.

They are still bunches lining the edges of the driveway though.

That is fantastic for both of you!  I'm super jealous and now considering trying to establish driveway strawberries of my own.  Any specific varieties recommended?  I'm wondering if wild strawberries might stand the best chance?

Take Jenny's advice -- reach out to your neighbours! If they've had a good year, they will have more new shoots then they know what to do with. Perfect opportunity to connect!

Wild strawberries are amazing, but I suggest focusing on tame varieties. I have some everbearing that do well, but had a lot of dieback in our weird winter. DW found some June-bearing at a hefty price, but so it goes.

Mostly I want to want to walk out in the morning and nosh some fresh fruit. And when the local kids come to visit, well, they already know where to conduct a garden raid. Cool stuff.

Heather Langley wrote:That is fantastic for both of you!  I'm super jealous and now considering trying to establish driveway strawberries of my own.  Any specific varieties recommended?  I'm wondering if wild strawberries might stand the best chance?

I would use any variety that produces a lot of runners as they are very vigorous. A lot of my driveway strawberries are the big round white variety. I think they are called Aloha berries. In fact, that variety has been sneakily and quickly taking over my other June bearing and ever bearing plants. Good thing they are so yummy!

If you have a local wild strawberry, it would probably do well but just any wild strawberry is not necessarily going to thrive in your climate.  And if you can get ones that your neighbors are giving away, as said above, then you know those are ones that are doing pretty good since they have enough to give away. 😆