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White Alpine Strawberry
A variety of Alpine strawberry
How to sow white alpine strawberry: Transplant bare root plants/plugs or divide runners
Sun requirement for white alpine strawberry: Plant in Full Sun
A clump-forming alpine strawberry with no runners, good as an edging plant, that self-seeds and can be divided. The large white berries are bigger and sweeter than the traditional white alpine and appear continually except in heavy frost. Scatter-sow in a seed tray, prick out at 2.5 cm and transplant once the leaves touch.
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White alpine strawberry facts
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For white alpine strawberry, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 5°C and a shortest growing cycle of 180 days at its best temperature, about 1980 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your white alpine strawberry will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Fragaria vesca L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Rosales Rosaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | heavy, medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
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