Strawberry plants are the joy of any garden. They need tending, granted, but they give it back and yet some.
They are small plants with a beautiful white and yellow flower that develops later on in the strawberry per se. When it grows the size weights it down and if the fruit touches the ground, it's gone in no time.
So it's among the few plants I keep in pots (so the fruit hangs).
We need to be aware of snails--they absolutely love them, and birds of course.
So I keep my strawberry plants in zone 1 of my garden (that is really close to my kitchen door).
I don't do many food preparations with these strawberries per se as the production is small and they don't develop all at once. As soon as one is ready there are several hands aiming for it.
Some science: Strawberry as a health promoter: an evidence based review
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25803191
"Strawberries (Fragaria X ananassa, Duch.) are a rich source of a wide variety of nutritive compounds such as sugars, vitamins, and minerals, as well as non-nutritive, bioactive compounds such as flavonoids, anthocyanins and phenolic acids. All of these compounds exert a synergistic and cumulative effect on human health promotion and in disease prevention. Strawberry phenolics are indeed able (i) to detoxify free radicals blocking their production, (ii) to modulate the expression of genes involved in metabolism, cell survival and proliferation and antioxidant defense, and (iii) to protect and repair DNA damage. "
Img: some of my plants, almost ready for transplant.