Planting Strawberries in the Home Garden Horticulture Planting Strawberries in the Home Garden Fresh strawberries are delicious in desserts and fruit salads. They also make an excellent topping for ice cream, pancakes, and breakfast cereals. Fruit not eaten fresh, can be processed into jams or frozen.
Strawberries are well suited to the home garden.
They require a relatively small amount of space in the garden, are hardy throughout Iowa, and are easy to grow. There are basically 3 types of strawberries. June-bearers are the most widely planted type of strawberry. June-bearing strawberries produce one crop per year with the majority of the fruit ripening in June. The second type of strawberry is the everbearing strawberry.