Elan Strawberry Plant (Fragaria x ananassa 'Elan')

Brighten your garden with the sweet bounty of our Elan Strawberry plants, a premium everbearing variety renowned for its juicy, vibrant red berries and vigorous growth. Perfect for fresh eating, preserves, or edible garnishes, Elan’s prolific harvests and ornamental white flowers make it a delightful choice for both novice and experienced gardeners seeking flavor and beauty.

Shipping Spring 2025

Product Highlights:

• Prolific and Resilient: Elan is a hardy, day-neutral strawberry thriving in zones 5 through 8, producing medium-sized, conical berries from midsummer to frost. Its disease-resistant nature, including to Neopestalotiopsis, ensures reliable yields with minimal fuss, ideal for organic growers.

• Exceptional Flavor and Nutrition: These berries boast high natural sugar levels for intense sweetness and up to 50% more vitamin C than other everbearing varieties, perfect for healthy snacking, jams, or desserts. Edible flowers add a mild strawberry taste to salads.

• Pollinator-Friendly Beauty: Abundant white blooms attract bees and butterflies, enhancing your garden’s ecosystem, while its trailing habit shines in hanging baskets, containers, or beds.

Ideal For:

• Home gardeners craving continuous harvests of sweet, organic strawberries.

• Those designing versatile, low-maintenance edible landscapes or patio displays.

• Culinary enthusiasts eager to craft fresh dishes, preserves, or decorative garnishes.

Planting and Care Instructions:

• Soil: Prefers rich, well-drained soil with a pH of 6.5-6.8, amended with compost or aged manure. Avoid waterlogged conditions to prevent root issues.

• Watering: Keep soil evenly moist during establishment (1-2 times weekly); reduce to weekly for mature plants. Mulch to retain moisture and keep fruit clean.

• Sun Exposure: Thrives in full sun (6-8 hours daily); tolerates partial shade in hotter climates to prevent heat stress.

• Spacing: Plant 12-18 inches apart in rows 3-4 feet apart, or 1 plant per 12-inch container for baskets. Remove first-year runners to boost fruiting.

• Maintenance: Pinch flower buds for the first 6 weeks after planting to strengthen plants. Apply organic fertilizers like fish emulsion monthly during the growing season.

Shipping Live Plants

Live plants, particularly annual vegetables, can be quite delicate. To ensure their safe arrival in optimal condition, we take several precautionary measures:

1. Rigorous hardening off process: We prepare the plants to be resilient enough for their journey by gradually acclimating them to outdoor conditions.

2. Application of organic prebiotics and supplements: We treat plants with natural products to enhance their health and vigor before they make the journey.

3. Development of a strong root system: We prioritize cultivating a robust root system so the plants can quickly adapt and flourish upon arrival.

4. Custom packing materials: We use specially designed packing materials to secure and protect the plants during transit, minimizing the risk of damage and ensuring they arrive in the best possible condition.

Our live plants are sold in 3-inch pots and can be shipped to all US states, with the exception of Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington state. We utilize Priority Mail for shipping to ensure a speedy delivery and ship only on Mondays to ensure no plants languish in mailrooms over the weekend. 

Rates for Shipping Garden Plants
Delicate plants like peppers and tomatoes are expensive to ship, frequently costing more than the plants themselves!! While you can order whatever your desired quantity of plants is, our packaging is for plants in sets of 3. Thus, flat rate shipping is in multiples of 3, starting with 1-3 plants for $17. The shipping cost will auto-populate at checkout. For understanding our full plant shipping, go here.  

Non-GMO Commitment: At Growing Farmers and The Farm on Central, all our plants are guaranteed non-GMO and not genetically modified in any way, upholding natural breeding methods and promoting sustainable gardening and farming practices.

Growing method: Grown using organic principles at The Farm on Central using conventionally grown plugs.

These are for local pickup only. We will NOT be shipping these this year.