Sharing how to a grow an easy DIY home garden strawberry patch for the backyard gardener with pictures for the best strawberries!
DIY Easy Home Grown Strawberry Patch
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Everyone needs a home garden strawberry patch because well… strawberries, ha!
The is nothing like fresh picked strawberries warmed from the sun.
How to Grow a Home Garden Strawberry Patch
Two years ago, we planted a veggie garden & included a few strawberry plants.
Where to Start a Strawberry Patch
We have had such success with the strawberries that we let them take over the entire DIY raised gardening bed.
We planned our raised gardening bed in a full sun spot in our backyard with lots of healthy gardening soil.
Our strawberry patch is fairly care & maintenance free.
Once a strawberry patch was planted, it pretty much takes care of itself with the exception of pulling the occasional weed & keeping the strawberry plants inside the border of the raised gardening bed.
Best Mulch for a Strawberry Patch
Every year, I add a little compost or chicken manure (from our chickens HERE) to the soil to keep it healthy so these strawberries can grow.
I also add a little shredded hardwood mulch to any gaps in the soil to keep the weeds at bay while the strawberry plants grow.
This year we have been blessed with a bumper crop of strawberries.
It was that EASY!
As they say of plants in the gardening world… 1st year they sleep, 2nd year the creep & 3rd year they leap!
Well… our strawberries certainly leaped.
Strawberries are the best because they are such care free plants.
They require very little weeding & provide us with wonderfully shaped fruit.
How to Winterize & Maintain a Strawberry Patch
When wintertime comes, I don’t do anything to our strawberry patch, the strawberries overwinter wonderfully.
It’s always a good idea to add compost, manure or mulch to your backyard strawberry patch over the winter to add nutrients to the soil & strawberry plants.
I also need to occasionally pull weeds or pull any strawberry plants that try to escape our raised gardening beds.
Our youngest, asked me the other day why our strawberries are so curiously shaped & not as perfect looking as in the grocery store?
As he stuck a few strawberries in his mouth, he reminded me how much sweeter our strawberries are even if they aren’t the prettiest… 🙂
The last two years he has raced down to the raised gardening beds early in the morning so he can eat the strawberries before his siblings do, Ha!
Since we allowed the strawberries to take over this year there is PLENTY for everyone! Most days we have enough strawberries to make strawberry pie with .
And hopefully enough to make strawberry jam with.
If you have a strawberry patch you will definitely need to have the perfect strawberry basket!!!
Longaberger baskets are def the best, in my opinion! I find them at thrift & antiques stores all the time!
I will be adding 2 more raised gardening beds soon for more veggies, pumpkins & blackberries. I can’t wait!!!
by Tara Lehman
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Hi Tara, I look forward to hearing from you. Your work on tour walkway was a challengege but you really did a great job. Strawberries are my favorite a d I really thought your sons comment about the shapes being wonky but how sweet they were. In I do the freezer jam, strawberry and blueberry not together however. Your pie looks good and I will wait for the receipe. PS – Here in Florida I find Longaberger baskets quite often too. Enjoy your Summer school is out already here. Its really hot!
Thanks so much for stopping by to check out our strawberry patch Beverly! I will have to give blueberry freezer jam a try after we plant a few blueberry bushes. Enjoy your summer as well! We still have one more week of school here and I definitely have mixed feelings about it, Ha!