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How to Space Everbearing Strawberries + Arrangement Tips

Modified: May 16, 2023 by Mary Ward · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

How to Space Everbearing Strawberries + Arrangement Tips pinterest image.
How to Space Everbearing Strawberries + Arrangement Tips pinterest image.
How to Space Everbearing Strawberries + Arrangement Tips pinterest image.
How to Space Everbearing Strawberries + Arrangement Tips pinterest image.

Everbearing strawberries are planted in a different formation than June-bearing strawberries. The reason for this is owing to the growth habit of each type of plant.

A collage of everbearing strawberry plantings
You’ll want to arrange everbearing strawberries a little differently than June-bearing strawberries, since they grow differently.
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  • Different Growing Habits Mean Different Spacing and Arrangement for Everbearing Strawberries
  • How to Space Everbearing Strawberries
  • Plant spacing:
  • Rows spacing:
  • Bed size:
  • Aisle or pathway space:
  • Managing Runners and Daughter Plants on Everbearing Strawberries
  • What About Spacing for Day-Neutral Strawberries?

Different Growing Habits Mean Different Spacing and Arrangement for Everbearing Strawberries

Strawberries grow on an everbearing strawberry plant
Everbearing strawberries send out few to no runners, which is why they need to be spaced differently than ground-covering June bearers.

June-bearing strawberries send out a lot of runners and spread to create a denser sort of ground-covering mat. They are usually grown as a two-foot-wide matted row. When they are first planted, the plants are spaced to allow for this spreading and matting.

Everbearing strawberry plants do not spread by runners, to speak of. For them, you need to plan for the parent plant to grow larger, meaning that you need to leave more space for it in its immediate area so that it has the resources to grow large without getting overcrowded by its large neighbors. Overcrowding would also be an invitation for disease.

How to Space Everbearing Strawberries

Space between individual plants (aka crowns): 12 inches (or 1 foot) apart
Space between rows: minimum 12 inches (or 1 foot)
Bed size: 1, 2, or 3 rows per bed
Space between beds (aisle or pathway): 18 to 24 inches (or 1 ½ to 2 feet)

Plant spacing:

Everbearing plants planted in rows
Give each plant enough space to grow as a single large plant. Avoid overcrowding to avoid disease.

You should have about 12 inches of space between each new plant and its neighboring plants. This means that the plant to the side of one plant should be no closer than one foot, and the next plant down the row should not be closer than one foot. You do not need to plant plants further away than 12 inches, as that only wastes space and may even reduce pollination.

Rows spacing:

Everbearing strawberries can be grown in single, double, or triple rows. Single rows work perfectly fine, but double rows make more efficient use of planting space, especially if you plan to grow two or more rows of everbearing strawberries. Triple rows will get the most numbers of plants and hence the highest yield per square footage of the area, but it can be difficult to reach the plants in the center row for harvesting and weeding.

Bed size:

Rows of everbearing strawberries in a bed
Everbearing strawberries can be grown in single, double, or triple row beds.

A bed is a continuous planting of berries not broken up by a walkway or aisle space. A doubled or tripled set of rows would make up one bed. This means that a “bed” would consist of a space about 2 ½ to 3 feet wide for a double row. You would need 3 to 4 feet to accommodate a triple row. A little extra space will allow for an area around the plant for weeding, mulching, and maintaining. It will also leave enough space for the plant to grow and bush out as it grows without interfering with the next plant or aisle space.

Aisle or pathway space:

Leave enough aisle space to walk, bend, and kneel in so that you can pick, weed, and maintain the bed without trampling your strawberry plants. Eighteen inches (1 ½ feet) is a good distance without having to deal with too large a space for weeding, etc., but if you like a little more working space, leave a two-foot aisle.

Aisles can be mulched for weed control, tilled, or cultivated regularly, or you can plant a mowable cover crop in the aisles, such as clover. You will want to make sure the clover doesn’t overgrow into the strawberry bed, though.

Managing Runners and Daughter Plants on Everbearing Strawberries

Unripe everbearing strawberries on a plant
For the best berries, it’s best to remove runners and daughter plants from parent plants on everbearing varieties.

Everbearing strawberries send out very few runners. Runners that grow from the parent plant on everbearing strawberries should be removed. They can be replanted elsewhere. If you leave the runners on an everbearing strawberry plant, they are bound to sap energy from the mother plant and reduce your yield and berry size.

What About Spacing for Day-Neutral Strawberries?

Blossoms on an everbearing strawberry plant
For practical purposes, for spacing and arrangement treat day-neutral strawberries the same as everbearing strawberries.

Day-neutral strawberries are not exactly the same as everbearing strawberries, but they are very close. Everbearing strawberries still respond to daylight and the length of the day. Day-neutral strawberries do not; they respond to warmth and the right growing conditions.

Day-neutral and everbearing strawberries produce berries on a very similar but slightly different schedule. That schedule is so close, though, that for practical purposes, they are both usually considered everbearing strawberries and will produce, for the most part, all season long — from May or June through October (possibly longer, depending on location). Many of the strawberry varieties that are listed as everbearing are, in fact, day neutral.

When it comes to spacing and management for day-neutral strawberries, there is no difference. Treat them exactly the same as everbearing varieties.

Not sure if you should grow everbearing or June-bearing strawberries? You might like to check out these 25 Pros and Cons of Growing Everbearing Strawberries or these 17 Pros and Cons of Growing June-Bearing Strawberries.

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  1. Dorothy

    June 15, 2024 at 1:14 pm

    Hello there I grow the ever bearing strawberries it is doing good in my area New Orleans.

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    • Mary Ward

      June 18, 2024 at 4:23 pm

      Excellent!

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