Strawberry Plug Plants Now Available

The Nourse Farms Strawberry Plug Plant System

In the production system we use, the plugs are grown with best practices to produce the most disease-free plugs. Our strawberry mother plants are greenhouse-grown in a substrate system for effective disease management. The tips from these plants are then planted into 50-cell plug plant containers and, with a misting irrigation system in place, grown into finished plug plants.

Why Use Strawberry Plug Plants

An option for plasticulture growers, strawberry plug plants:

• are planted in the late summer to be fruited the following spring; and

• can be planted into plastic using a mechanical transplanter rather than by hand.

What Nourse Farms has Available for 2021

For the 2021 planting season, Nourse Farms is offering four varieties to our customers:

• Galletta, an early-season variety that has excellent flavor, holds size through the season, and has good disease resistance. Galletta also performs well in heavier soils.

• Darselect, a mid-season, highly productive variety exclusive to Nourse Farms with large and sweet berries.

• Flavorfest, a highly demanded mid-season variety with first-rate vigor and flavor. Flavorfest also shows tolerance to anthracnose crown and fruit rot.

• AC Valley Sunset, a top-choice late-season variety exclusive to Nourse Farms and known for large, very good flavored berries.