Wild Strawberries

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Has anyone grown these? I planted some seeds yesterday and they are in 2 largish pots with plastic bags over them, They are in a sunny sheltered spot on the outside sill of our french windows . Is that a mistake? I'm thinking of leaving them in the pots once they've germinated. I haven't grown them before.

Any hints and suggestions for success gratefully received.

They'd be better not to be in full sun. You need good light, but full sun gives too much danger of drying out.

Oh thanks, Mere so they need to be kept damp? Is not the plastic bag's condensation enough?

I have a patch of these.
I bought them as small plants rather than from seed.

They like shade, I have mine under a tree in a shaded spot with heavy, clay, usually somewhat damp soil and they do well there.

The fruit is IMO quite awful!
Though my two youngest love picking and eating them, I can only assume it’s must be the novelty of diddy little strawberries because they are honestly dreadful!

Oooh lucky you frosted I hope mine taste ok! They're Jekka Mcvicar . Apparently the leaves are tasty too, they make a nice tea! I'll put the pots in semi shade, thanks.

They'll need to stay in their pots because my garden is usually dry and not clayey at all!

These?
If so, these are fragaria vesca, Britain’s native wild strawberry, the wild strawberries I have.

If you just want a pretty native British plant with fruits for the birds (or children apparently lacking tastebuds..) that provides attractive evergreen ground cover then go ahead and enjoy them but if you are actively growing them for delicious strawberries I would advise instead an alpine strawberry, ‘fraise des bois’ is said to be good or one of the traditional June bearer strawberries like ‘Cambridge favourite’.
I have grown Cambridge and can confirm it’s a delicious berry.

I also have some ever bearing strawberries ‘buddy’ variety but as they haven’t produced strawberries yet I can’t tell you if they are any good or not.

I quite like them! Easy to grow-I grow mine in a pot in full sun as that’s what I thought they liked but maybe I’ll move it

I love the taste of wild strawberries - like a more intense version of a garden strawberry. It’s a good thing I like them, because the three plants I bought last year sent out lots of runners and I have dozens of little plants now! They’ve escaped from their corner and have invaded the lawn...

In short, don’t plant them in the ground unless you’re sure you want lots of them :D

Another vote here for the great taste of wild strawberries!

I love wild strawberries

They are rampant in my second garden, it’s on a south west facing slope. They send plantlets all over the place, but love the cracks in the terrace and steps.
Very easy to look after!

I have clear memories of going wild strawberry picking along an abandoned railway line with a group of friends in the 70s when we were teenagers - it was a perfect day, one of the boys had a guitar and we sat and rested and sang. The strawberries were tiny but with a delicious taste.

I had assumed over the years that I was massively over romanticising this memory, that I had mixed it up with a shampoo or chocolate advert, it had just been me who had remembered this day at all, let alone in such picturesque terms.

A couple of years ago I was talking to a friend who has been there too - she was the one who knew where the wild strawberries were - and she remembered it in exactly the same way.

Nothing helpful to add to the thread - sorry ! But happy, at these times, to think of myself as young and beautiful and wandering along in the fresh air.........

Oh how romantic Jelly !!

Bee some of the wild strawbs don't 'runner , ooh I hope mine do send out plantlets , I'm an organic wildlife gardener! But because Iam lacking in clay, Feawen they may not be very happy. Thankyou very much everyone.

I like raw lemons so probably I'd be fine with these strawberries frosted Children often like sour things too. Yes that's my packet of seeds and it was the only one that the shop had!! I would've bought frais des bois if they had them (I'm in our 2nd home in MW France)

I’m really not sure where I am going wrong with these things, so many of you are saying they are delicious so I must be going wrong somewhere 🤔

Mine smell lovely but when you taste them they are tasteless with a horrible dry, woolly texture.

Could you have mock strawberries FrostedViolets?

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/80157/Duchesnea-indica/Details

Yes she could have the mock ones we have those too! Not good eating at all! They're a swiz! Not poisonous though, I did try one