Welcome to Over50sForum! The site for people over 50 to chat, make friends, discuss, share, and generally be part of something that's fun and friendly :)
Hi Carol what variety are your strawberries , you may well get some fruit the first year depending on when they are planted, I did with all mine .
I had Cambridge Favourite, a mid season planted in the ground , it didn't do well here.
The ones I have now are in pots 'Mara de bois ' they are 'perpetual' and fruit from late May until the first heavy frost.
Strawberry 'Cambridge Favourite' Hardy Mid Season Bare Root
Hi Carol they are a good well known variety and you should get a crop this year.
As I said I grew that variety but mine didn't do well, I grew them in the garden and I think they were in the wrong place too much shade .
I now have my strawberries in tubs in the sun and they do very well. The tubs are on gravel allowing free draining (or you can buy feet for the tubs). I feed the plants occasionally with seaweed and with Tomorite once the flowers start to form .