GROWING EVERBEARERS 
WHY? HOW? 
«J) Everbearing strawberries make a delightful and 
K useful crop for the home garden. They have 
mf' become very popular in recent years. 
^^^) You don't have to wait very long. No other fruit 
I^K crop can touch Everbearing strawberries for quick 
^Ht returns. Plants are set in March or April. Berries 
are ripening from August to November of the 
same year. 
fW\^ Strawberries provide one of the best of all 
sources of Vitamin C (which cannot be stored in 
the body). Everbearing varieties make possible 
a continuing and pleasing source of this vitamin 
all through late summer and fall. 
Although they have been grown for many years, 
they still have a novelty appeal. Lots of people 
' still get a real kick out of having nice fresh 
strawberries from their own vines, so far out of 
the regular season. 
@ They have a good record as a money crop. 
Growers who had fairly heavy yields of berries 
in small garden plots found the surplus so easy 
to sell at good prices that they increased their 
plantings. Now many fall berries are shipped 
profitably even to wholesale markets. 
® Some everbearing varieties make a very good 
regular spring crop. This gives growers crop 
insurance. If the expected summer and fall 
crop does not come up to expectations (and 
fall crops are not as sure as spring crops), there 
is a good spring crop coming along anyway, 
j Mastodon and Green Mountain are the best spring 
! croppers among the Everbearers. 
All the Everbearers have cycles of 
fniiting. None of them bear every 
day from midsummer to freezing 
weather. In Maryland. Gem and 
Gemzata stand the heat better and 
are by far the most productive in 
August and early September. Masto- 
I don is at its best a little later and 
Green Mountain is the latest to reach 
its best production. Commercial 
growers therefore may want several - 
varieties to assure continuous fruit- 
I ing. In our first year with it, Min- 
I nesota 1166 produced lots of sum- 
I mer berries like Gem and Gemzata. 
Everbearing varieties during the first few weeks 
must build up the strength and vitality to produce 
fruit this year as well as to continue growth. 
® Set good strong plants on well prepared land 
and set them early on soil that is retentive of 
moisture or where water can be applied or con- 
served by mulch. 
® Cut off the spring blossoms as soon as they 
appear and remove the summer blossom clusters 
at each hoeing until about the middle of July. 
® Everbearers give a greater response in fall fruit 
production to liberal applications of stable manure 
broadcast before planting than to any one thing 
we can mention. 
® Everbearers are often grown by the hill system, 
as it is thought the plants produce more fruit if 
runners are removed. Where this system is used 
plants may be set closer together. Plants 18 
inches apart in rows 2 feet apart are not too 
close for hill culture. 
Yields. Everbearing plants set early on good, 
moist soil should yield one pint or more per plant 
during late s'ummer and fall. Much better yields 
are often obtained. Yields as high as 2 quarts 
per plant have been recorded. 
Green Mountain — good both Fall and Spring 
