The first garden strawberry was grown in France during the late 18th century Prior to this, wild strawberries and cultivated selections from wild strawberry species were the common source of the fruit. [1 ] Strawberry cultivars vary widely in size, color, flavor, shape, degree of fertility, season of ripening, liability to disease and constitution[2 ]The strawberry fruit was mentioned in ancient Roman literature in reference to its medicinal use. The French began taking the strawberry from the forest to their gardens for harvest in the 1300s. Charles V, France's king from 1364 to 1380, had 1,200 strawberry plants in his royal garden[.1]Plants, usually obtained from northern nurseries, are planted through holes punched in this covering, and irrigation tubing is run underneath. At the end of the harvest season, the plastic is removed and the plants are plowed into the [2] cultivation of the strawberry became more common. People began using it for its supposed medicinal properties and botanists began naming the different species. In England the demand for regular strawberry farming[1]