Wife wants me to plant two garden beds with strawberries this spring. Are there any specific types that do better in TN? The area they will be planted in gets sun 80% of the day.
Collect all the wood ash you can, dust everything well after it rains, should help with slugs and snails.They are dang near invasive in my patch. I planted them in the ground. Biggest issue I've had is slug and snail damage. They'll eat the red off of them as they ripen and there's not much you can do if it's a really wet spring summer.
I chose a June-bearing variety (really May) so I could get all my picking done in a shorter time frame.