Strawberries are a good fruit for a home gardener. They're inexpensive to buy from a catalog. And according to Cooperative Extension's Amy Ivy, they're pretty easy to tend.You've got to decide which type to plant: June bearing or day neutral. The former produce all its crop in one big rush, and they don't bear fruit till the second year in the ground. Good for making pies and am, or anything needing a lot of berries at once. The latter bear fewer berries at once, but produce whenever the temperature is between 45 and 80. Insect pests can be a real bother to day-neutral varieties, getting worse as the season goes along. [full story]