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Bare-Root Strawberry Plants — Albion & Seascape
Bushy, well-rooted, and full of life — not dormant crowns — ready to burst into growth and produce berries up to a month earlier.
In colder parts of Canada, simple mulching and basic frost protection allows plants to overwinter successfully.
✅ See our simple overwinter guide below ↓
Plant as soon as the soil can be worked.
✅ See our organic growing guide + planting tips below ↓
Newly planted strawberries can handle light frosts, especially if you make a simple plastic cover.
Canada-wide mail-order shipping (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan & the rest of Canada) Farm-gate pickup available 7 days a week
NEW: Island-wide delivery from Victoria to Campbell River (and points between)
Delivery Scheduling: Starting mid-March we deliver 2–3 times per month down-island, and Campbell River every weekend.
After checkout we’ll contact you with the next delivery date and pick-up location.
We ship on your schedule — just tell us when you’d like your plants shipped, and we’ll contact you two weeks before shipping to confirm.
Quick variety guide (tap to jump ↓)
Recommended Choice: Seascape (Most Reliable)
🍓 Seascape is our top pick for consistent, season-long harvests — strong producer from spring through fall.
Add Albion for Bigger Premium Berries
🍓 Albion is known for large, premium fruit and excellent sweetness — a great upgrade for size + quality.
Best of Both: Mix Seascape + Albion
2/3 Seascape + 1/3 Albion (our favourite ratio)
1/2 Seascape + 1/2 Albion (a balanced mix)
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Why Our Plants Arrive Stronger and Produce Faster
Our everbearing/day-neutral strawberries typically begin producing berries within 6–8 weeks of planting, and continue all summer into fall until the first hard frost.
Unlike most online nurseries, we don’t ship fully dormant bare-root crowns with no leaves.
Our plants are well-rooted, bushy, and full of life — ready to flourish in your garden.
We pre-select every order, so only the biggest and healthiest plants are sent to our customers.
At RainCoast Farm, we embrace and explore regenerative growing techniques by creating living soil and cultivating a diverse, dynamic soil ecosystem—guided by nature’s wisdom.
Many of you have visited us at the farm to see our living soil systems firsthand, learn how soil biology enhances plant vitality, and enjoy nutrient-rich food grown naturally from the ground up.
Now, we’re excited to share that same regenerative approach with a wider community by offering healthy starter plants for farm-gate pickup, local delivery from Victoria to Campbell River, and Canada-wide shipping.
When you plant RainCoast strawberries, you’re not just planting a crop—you’re planting a living system, carrying beneficial soil biology forward to enrich your own soil as nature intended.
Cold Climate Strawberry Winter Mulching Guide
Northern BC • Alberta • Saskatchewan • Prairie Winters • Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada
Strawberries can overwinter successfully in cold climates with
simple mulching and basic frost protection.
The goal is to protect the plant crown from
deep freezing, wind exposure, and freeze/thaw cycles.
✅ When to Mulch (Timing Matters)
Wait until plants have hardened off in late fall.
Mulch after:
- 2–3 hard frosts, or
- the ground begins to freeze lightly
💡 If you mulch too early, plants may stay warm and are more likely to rot.
✅ What to Use
Best option: ✅ Clean, weed-free straw
Good alternatives:
- chopped leaves (in a pinch)
- pine needles (lighter cover)
- evergreen boughs (great on top to hold straw in place)
Avoid:
❌ heavy wet hay (can mat down and mold)
❌ plastic directly on plants (traps moisture and can cause rot)
✅ How Much Mulch to Apply
Spread straw evenly over the plants:
✅ 4–6 inches deep (aim for full crown coverage)
In very exposed areas (windy, little snow cover):
✅ up to 6–8 inches
✅ Snow is Your Friend
If you get reliable snow cover:
✅ snow acts like a natural blanket and insulator
If winters are cold without snow:
✅ mulching is essential
✅ Spring Removal (Don’t Remove Too Early)
When weather begins to warm and plants start waking up:
- Rake most straw off the plants
- Leave a thin layer around the base as a summer mulch
💡 If you remove mulch too early and a cold snap hits, plants can be damaged.
✅ Frost Protection in Spring (After Flowering Starts)
If frost is predicted after plants start flowering:
✅ Re-cover with straw overnight, or
✅ Use a breathable frost cloth / row cover
This protects blossoms and helps prevent frost-damaged fruit.
🍓 Strawberry Variety Guide (Albion + Seascape)
Both Seascape and Albion are everbearing / day-neutral strawberries, meaning they can fruit in repeat waves through the season.
They’re both excellent choices — but they shine in slightly different ways.
✅ Recommended Choice: Seascape (Most Reliable)
Seascape is our top pick for consistent, season-long harvests. It’s a strong producer and a great choice if you want dependable berries from spring through fall.
Expect big, glossy, luscious red fruit with a rich sweet flavor, firm bite, and beautiful conical shape — perfect for fresh eating, baking, and preserving.
Under good conditions, many plants can produce roughly ½ to 1 lb of fruit per month during peak harvest windows.
🍓 Add Albion for Bigger Premium Berries
Albion is known for large, premium fruit and excellent sweetness. It produces bold, dessert-quality berries with a deep, luscious red interior and smooth texture.
If you want the “wow” factor — bigger berries, rich flavor, and great shelf life — Albion is an ideal second variety.
Many plants can produce roughly ½ to 1 lb of fruit per month during the main harvest stretch with proper care.
⭐ Best of Both: Mix Seascape + Albion
If you’re ordering a larger number of plants, we recommend a mix:
- ✅ 2/3 Seascape + 1/3 Albion (our favourite ratio)
- ✅ 1/2 Seascape + 1/2 Albion (a balanced mix)
Why a mix works: Seascape and Albion often fruit in slightly different waves, so planting both can help extend your harvest and keep berries coming more consistently through the season.
💡 Pro Tip: Refresh Your Strawberry Patch Every 3–4 Years
Strawberry crowns are typically refreshed every 3–4 years to keep yields high and plants vigorous.
If you notice smaller berries and the plants producing lots of runners, it’s often a sign the patch is aging and needs to be replaced — not that you did anything wrong.
The runners are the same biological age as the mother plant, so older plants tend to put more energy into runners instead of big fruit.
🍓 Organic Strawberry Growing Guide
1) ✅ Start With Fresh Nursery-Certified Plants (Most Important!)
The number one key to success with everbearing strawberries is starting with fresh, nursery-certified planting stock — like the plants we sell at RainCoast Farm.
Healthy, vigorous, certified plants establish faster, grow stronger, and produce bigger, better berries sooner — and you’ll get the best chance at a heavy first season.
💡 Word to the wise: Everbearing (day-neutral) strawberry plants don’t stay productive forever.
Most beds give their best yields for about 3–4 years. After that, berry size often drops and plants put more energy into runners instead of fruit.
By around year 5, many older beds produce very few berries (or none at all).
✅ The runners are the same biological age as the mother plant.
So if you “refresh” your bed by replanting runners from old plants, you’re not truly starting over — you’re extending an aging patch for a short time before the whole bed declines.
That’s why buying plants from backyard growers can be a gamble — many people don’t realize how fast strawberry beds wear out, and they unknowingly sell older plants (or runner plants from older mothers) that won’t produce well for you.
On top of that, there’s also a real risk of bringing home disease, pests, or weak genetics from non-certified stock.
2) ☀️ Sunlight (Most Important!)
Strawberries love full sun.
- ✅ Best: 6–10 hours/day of direct sunlight
- ⚠️ Less sun = smaller plants and fewer berries
If you only have partial sun, try to give them morning sun at minimum.
3) 🌱 Soil Preparation (Living Soil = Bigger Harvests)
Strawberries want soil that is:
- loose and fluffy
- well-draining
- rich in organic matter
- full of biology
The easy organic soil recipe
Before planting, mix into your bed:
- ✅ 1–2 inches of compost (top-dressed and mixed into the top 6–8”)
- ✅ Optional: worm castings (a handful per planting hole)
- ✅ Optional (highly recommended): alfalfa pellets
→ Add 2–3 heaping tablespoons per planting hole, mix lightly into the soil, and water in
If your soil is heavy clay or sandy, add:
- ✅ compost + a bit of fine woodchips, animal bedding shavings, or wood stove pellets (10%–20%) to help break up the soil, retain water, and provide long-term food for the soil microbiome.
- ✅ Adding leaf litter and small amounts of forest soil will help recruit and nurture beneficial soil life.
Pro tip: Buy horse feed alfalfa pellets from the feed store. It’s usually much cheaper than alfalfa meal or pellets sold as “garden fertilizer” — same fertilizer, better value.
Bonus pro tip: Soak your alfalfa pellets, woodchips, bedding shavings, or wood stove pellets in compost tea, manure tea, or a simple water extract made from leaf litter and/or the top 2 inches of soil from a healthy, productive forest or grassland. This helps infuse the material (and your garden soil) with a diverse ecosystem of beneficial soil life.
Woodchips, animal bedding, and wood stove pellets can also be a great alternative to peat moss because they’re a better value, a renewable resource, and they feed the soil food web slowly over time—eventually breaking down into rich humus.
4) ✅ Planting Tips (So They Take Off Fast)
Spacing
- 8–12 inches apart (good for home gardens)
- 12 inches apart is ideal for airflow + easy picking
If making rows:
- 12” between plants
- 12” between rows
Depth matters
The crown is the “heart” of the plant (where leaves meet roots).
- ✅ Plant so the crown sits right at soil level
- ❌ Too deep = crown rot
- ❌ Too high = roots dry out
After planting, press soil in gently and water in thoroughly.
✅ Frost Tip: Newly planted strawberry plants can handle light overnight frosts, especially with a simple row cover or low hoop tunnel. This extra protection creates a warmer microclimate—helping plants establish faster and produce earlier. Later in the season, you can also use the same low hoop tunnel to support bird netting and protect your berries. 🍓🕊️
✅ Season Extension Tip: The hoop frame you use for frost protection can be covered with clear plastic in early spring and fall to create a warmer microclimate—often giving you 2–3 weeks earlier berries in spring and 2–3 weeks longer production in fall. Coming soon: simple DIY low hoop tunnel plans.
5) 💧 Watering (Simple Rule)
Strawberries don’t like extremes — not bone dry, not swampy.
The goal: Even moisture while they establish.
- ✅ First 10–14 days: water lightly but consistently
- ✅ After roots establish: deeper watering less often
Quick guide
- In warm weather: 2–4 times per week
- In cooler weather: 1–2 times per week
- In containers: often daily during summer heat
Tip: The #1 cause of weak plants is letting them dry out when young.
6) 🌾 Mulching (Organic “Cheat Code”)
Mulch makes strawberries dramatically easier to grow.
Mulch helps:
- ✅ keep soil moist
- ✅ prevent weeds
- ✅ protect roots from heat/cold swings
- ✅ keep fruit clean
- ✅ boost soil life
Best organic mulches
- clean straw (weed-free)
- leaf mold
- chopped leaves
- wood chip mulch (best around plants, not smothering crowns)
Keep mulch around the plant, but don’t bury the crown.
7) 🌿 Organic Feeding & Fertilizer (What + When)
Strawberries aren’t super heavy feeders, but they love consistent nutrition.
Simple and effective organic feeding plan
✅ At planting (or right after):
- Compost + worm castings
- + optional alfalfa pellets (gentle and soil-friendly)
✅ Monthly (during the growing season):
Top-dress alfalfa pellets around each plant → 2–4 tablespoons per plant once per month, then water in.
Alfalfa pellets are broken down by microbes and worms, releasing nutrients naturally over time and supporting healthy growth and berry production.
Pro tip: Buy horse feed alfalfa pellets from the feed store. It’s usually much cheaper than alfalfa meal or pellets sold as “garden fertilizer” — same fertilizer, better value.
(Keep pellets off the crown — apply in a ring around the plant.)
Feeding schedule (easy mode)
- After planting: ✅ small amount of balanced organic fertilizer (or compost tea) once plants begin active growth
- Pre-flower / early bloom: ✅ a second light feeding to support berries
- Mid-season: ✅ optional light feeding if plants are still pushing flowers and fruit hard
⚠️ Don’t overfeed nitrogen late season — too much leafy growth can reduce fruit.
8) 🍓 How to Get More Fruit (Biggest Tips)
If you want the highest yield:
- ✅ keep soil evenly moist
- ✅ feed lightly but consistently
- ✅ remove weeds early
- ✅ keep plants mulched
- ✅ don’t let beds get overcrowded
Pinching flowers (optional): If you want bigger plants long-term, you can pinch early flowers for 1–2 weeks after planting. But many customers prefer fruit ASAP — and these varieties still do great without pinching.
9) 🐝 Pollination
Strawberries are self-fertile but produce better with pollinator activity.
To help pollination:
- ✅ grow flowers nearby
- ✅ avoid spraying anything harsh during bloom
10) 🍃 Organic Pest & Disease Prevention (Prevention Wins)
Most strawberry problems come from stress: too wet, too dry, too crowded.
Best prevention steps
- ✅ airflow (don’t plant too tight)
- ✅ mulch so fruit doesn’t touch mud
- ✅ water early in the day (not at night)
- ✅ don’t soak the leaves every day
If you ever get mold/rot on berries:
- remove affected fruit
- increase airflow
- reduce late-day watering
11) ❄️ Frost & Cold Weather Notes
In colder parts of Canada:
- ✅ mulch and simple frost protection can allow plants to overwinter successfully
- ✅ See our winter mulching guide above ↑
✅ Quick Summary
To grow strawberries organically with high yields:
- ✅ Full sun
- ✅ Compost-rich soil
- ✅ Water consistently
- ✅ Mulch heavily
- ✅ Light organic feeding during growth and early bloom
- ✅ Keep plants weed-free + not overcrowded
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Thank you, Ian. You have taught me so much! Your understanding of soil is amazing! I never thought it could be so easy and totally sustainable in my own back yard. Incredible how important soil can change everyday life.
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I can't say enough about how impressed I was with Ian's knowledge of growing plants in living soil at the workshop I attended. I witnessed first hand how Ian's processes of living soil preparation 'supercharged' the health and vigor of strawberry plants growing at RainCoast Farm. This is awesome!
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