Not to intrude, but I discovered quite by accident that the seeds on the strawberry will germinate. Some years back, before I started my own strawberry patch, I tossed the stems I had just cleaned in a flower pot. The next year I had a flower pot full of strawberry plants.
So I still dump my stems in flower pots just to have continuous supply of new plants, because there are always some seeds from the process of stemming.
“I discovered quite by accident that the seeds on the strawberry will germinate. Some years back, before I started my own strawberry patch, I tossed the stems I had just cleaned in a flower pot. The next year I had a flower pot full of strawberry plants.”
What? You mean when you cut a stem off the plant and took the strawberry off the stem, you put the stem in a flower pot with dirt in it? Do I have that right?
I find that interesting, and will have to try it in the future. I was always under the impression (bolstered by suppliers of strawberry plants) that only Alpine strawberries would grow from seed.