🍓 Strawberry
The plant is hardy but blossoms fear frost; big day–night swings mean sweeter fruit.
What the numbers mean
These are the actual parameters this game runs on. Growth is driven by growing degree days: each day contributes max(0, min(mean temp, 30) − 4), and Strawberry is ready when that total reaches 750. That is why the same seed takes a very different number of days in Dublin and in Guangzhou.
| Base temperature | 4°CBelow this, the plant accumulates no growing degree days at all. |
|---|---|
| Degree days to maturity | 750 °C·dThe heat budget it must accumulate before it is ready to pick. |
| Comfortable range | 10–27°CWhere it grows without stress. |
| Frost damage below | -2°CLeaves start taking frost damage below this low. |
| Killed below | -12°CBelow this it does not come back. |
| Heat stress above | 30°CAbove this the plant slows down and stops setting fruit well. |
| Typical time to harvest | 60–80 days (from seedling) |
| Yield per bed | 20 berries |
Things worth knowing
- A strawberry is not a berry — the tiny dots are the true fruits; the red flesh is a swollen stem.
- Warm days and cool nights are the recipe for the sweetest strawberries.
Where and when to sow Strawberry
Pick your city to see the months when Strawberry scores well against that city's real climate records: