Category: Small fruits

The Other Fruit We Can Grow

We all know fruit like apples and pears and bush fruit like raspberries, but there is other fruit we can grow in South Dakota besides these. Like dewberries which look like blackberries, however, their canes have a habit of growing…

Vipipary

This is called “vivipary”. The seeds on the strawberry plant are sprouting using the strawberry fruit as a source of food and water. If you are patient, you can separate the little sprouts and plant them in a soil media…

Alpine Strawberries

Alpine strawberries cause confusion, as sometimes they’re considered wild, and sometimes they’re not. They’re generally of the genus Fragaria vesca, which grows wild in northern Europe. They can be both red or white. If you do a search online for…