The paper describes the cultivation of strawberries in our own family garden and the most common diseases and pests in the strawberry plantation in our agroecological area, as well as the control and the way of protection against the described diseases and pests. Strawberry represents the most economically important fruit species from the berry group. Croatia is the most represented producer in the form of small family farms who want to modernize and improve their production method in order to be in line with other better developed European countries. Strawberry is susceptible to diseases and pests, and there is a great need to combat them, and any such investment requires additional financial costs that are sometimes prohibitive in some years. If you want to get quality fruits and the market value of the same, then the financial investments should be increased. According to the Statistical Yearbook for 2018, strawberry production in Croatia is just over 3000 tonnes, with a slight decline each year. Since Croatia has potential in fruit production, especially in terms of climate, vegetation duration, soil quality, it is necessary to increase production areas and modernize cultivation technology and to market quality products in Croatia and European countries. If you want to have a healthy plantation without the presence of pathogens and pests, care must be taken about all the agro-technical and pomotechnical interventions that strawberry as a crop requires. The aim of the final paper is to describe the morphology of strawberries, various diseases and pests that attack it, as well as the measures of protection and to get acquainted with the cultivation and protection of strawberry in the garden of the Đuzel family.