Release in Fall of 2026

Bring the exquisite, concentrated flavor of a gourmet Parisian marketplace right to your garden with our Mignonette Alpine Strawberries. A legendary French heirloom favorite, this charming, runnerless variety produces compact, bushy plants loaded with an abundance of dainty, intense red, alpine berries. Widely celebrated by chefs and foodies as the absolute pinnacle of strawberry flavor, these gourmet fruits are bursting with a remarkably sweet, rich, wild-strawberry aroma that puts large, watery grocery store varieties to shame.

Whether you are looking to line your garden walkways with beautiful, fruit-bearing borders, tuck a rewarding project into patio containers, or create a fairytale cottage garden, Mignonette grows beautifully and reliably. Best of all, because these plants do not send out wild runners, they stay perfectly put where you plant them—concentrating all their energy into producing non-stop gourmet berries from early summer all the way until the first winter frost.

The B&KM Farms Promise

Like all of our varieties, these seeds are 100% heirloom, non-GMO, and completely untreated. Every single packet is grown, harvested, and carefully packaged entirely by hand right here in the USA by our family team. We skip the massive, impersonal factory assembly lines so that we can ensure only the freshest, highest-quality seeds make it to your front door.

Variants

• 100 mg Packet (~300 Seeds): Perfect for small patio containers, windowsill starters, hanging baskets, or small backyard raised bed accents.

• 1 Gram Pouch (~3,000 Seeds): Great for long, sweet garden borders, multi-box planters, or filling out a dedicated fruit patch.

• 1 oz Bulk Pouch (~85,000 Seeds): Ideal for large-scale gourmet homestead production, commercial greenhouse starters, nursery stock, and seed-saving libraries.

Quick Growing Facts

• Plant Type: Runnerless Alpine Perennial Fruit

• Fruit Size: 1/2 to 1 inch (Dainty, intensely flavored)

• Mature Height: 8 to 10 inches

• Plant Spread: 10 to 12 inches (Compact, mounding habit)

• Days to Fruit: 100 to 120 days (Will produce fruit in its very first year when started early!)

• Sunlight Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade (Thrives with afternoon shade in hot climates)

• Hardiness Zones: 3 through 9 (Extremely cold-hardy perennial that returns eagerly every spring)

Planting & Care Guide

• When to Plant: Start seeds indoors 8–10 weeks before your region's last expected spring frost. Alpine strawberry seeds are tiny and slow-growing at first, so a head start indoors under lights is highly recommended to get fruit in the first season.

• Seeding Depth: Surface sow (Do not bury!). Press the tiny seeds gently into the surface of a finely sifted, damp seed-starting mix. Mignonette seeds require light to germinate. Keep the tray covered with a clear plastic dome to maintain high humidity until they sprout.

• Spacing: Thin or space individual plants about 10 to 12 inches apart. Since they don't produce runners, they will grow into neat, tidy, beautiful mounds.

• Watering: Keep the soil consistently moist but never waterlogged during the germination period (which requires patience and takes about 14–21 days). Once established, water regularly. Alpine strawberries have shallow roots and prefer even, steady moisture to keep producing juicy, sweet berries all summer.

• Pro Gardening Tip: Give your seeds a winter wakeup call with stratification! To achieve the absolute highest and fastest germination rates, place your sealed seed packet inside the freezer for 2 to 3 weeks before planting. This perfectly mimics a natural winter freeze. When you bring them out into the warmth, it signals the seeds that it is officially spring, breaking their dormancy and prompting them to pop out of the soil with incredible vigor!

Why You'll Love It

• The Absolute Peak of Strawberry Flavor: Boasting a spectacular, deep aroma with hints of pineapple and wild berries, these gourmet fruits are incredibly sweet, completely stringless, and lack the hollow, sour centers of commercial varieties.

• Tidy, Runnerless Habit: Unlike standard strawberries that aggressively take over garden beds with messy, tangled runners, Mignonette stays in neat, compact mounds, making it the perfect choice for tidy raised beds, containers, and small-space landscaping.

• Everbearing Harvest: Instead of producing one single flush of fruit and quitting, this hardworking alpine variety continuously pushes out new flowers and fresh berries all summer long, right up until the snow flies.

• Superb Bird & Pest Resilience: Because the berries hide gracefully beneath the plant’s lush green canopy rather than hanging out on long, exposed stems, they are naturally shielded from scavenging birds and intense sun-scald.