Growing Organic Strawberries
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As I'm sure you know by now, they produce runners which pin down and produce new plants. The old plant will die at the end of the season and the runner becomes the new plant. It's generally best to start a fresh bed the next season and move your best new plants to the new bed and rotate the old bed into something else.
At least that's the approach if you want to propagate each new season from the previous season's plants. If you are OK buying new plants every year, you will get more strawberries per plant if you don't let them produce runners and propagate themselves. -
This is my 2nd yr of gardening @ our community garden. The 8 strawberries plants have been there for 3 yrs prier in raised boxes. The 1st yr I added horse manure and they did alright, I let them root n the Fall & cut the runners n the spring. The second yr I put dead leaves around them planted squash n the middle of the box & Manure & I have 20 or more runners. I was also told this yr that if I clip off the flowers of the baby plants, next yr I will have huge strawberries and there would be many
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could you explain this more please. I am brand new to planting/gardening. Just bought my first tomatoe, strawberry, mint, sage and stevia plants to give it a go. ;) Thank you for your time. Love-Light-Smiles~Fabi
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where can I find seeds thats will grow back every season?
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roly polys keep eating my strawbarrys plz help
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like my comment for no apparent reason
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Never thought of that but it sure would be a useful skill to have that everyone should know. They also teach crap in terms of nutrition I had to figure it all out myself in my late 20s...
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Woah, simmer down there tiger this is YOUTUBE!
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We just cover ours with hay and they grow back just fine the next summer.
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nice overalls. next time do a video without the shirt ;)
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ditch the bird netting..its a pain in the S & the birds only get a few anyway..
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planted berries in pure peat moss as test & i turned 20 plants into 700 plants in 2 months last Fall Sept-Nov..it was a test & the plants went wild..the area was small, but it completely filled in with plants as the plants sent runners out like I 've never seen in 23 years of growing strawberries.. watered daily as we were in drought.. unless it gets & stays under zero degrees? do nothing..or you can cover w/ pine needles if frigid cold..i sell strawberry plants[12 & 25] at ebay - rnew3340
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I have seen people burry a pot next to the parent strawberry plant, and burry the stem of the current year's runner. That way, when the roots establish, all you have to do is cut the runner from the parent plant, and dig up the pot.
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They shouldn't let anyone graduate unless they can prove they can grow food. Big agriculture would never allow that to be a graduating requirement. It's tough enough to get the soda's removed from the schools...
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Every kids should learn how to grow their own food.
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In 3 years those strawberries should propagate very well. You could have 10 times as much strawberries. Put the shoots in another separate pot when they shoot out from the main plant....they'll make new plants.
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I love my organic strawberries, I had some in pots last year and when I planted them in the soil, the leaves grow twice as big! The 10 plants I planted in August 2010 created 7 new plants. I swear I cut off 40-50 runners per 10 plants (I had 40) Squirrels take most of my strawberries. I planted lettuce and extra bean plants for the rabbits. The rabbits ate my blueberry bushes except one that was in a pot until I planted it a month ago.
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They're called strawberries, 'cause they like to be mulched with straw. Mainly to keep the ripening berries from touching the earth, and rotting before they can be enjoyed. Take it from me; my first job was picking strawberries.
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I have heard that you can pick off the flowers the first year to make them spread faster and put all their energy into the runners. I have not experience with this though.
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