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I didn't get much success with the sorry bare root strawberry plants I was finally able to find, but several did survive and at least one had a nice berry on last time I looked. I have also found several wild ones and it looks like the wild bramble berries might bear as well.
My blueberries seem to be doing better than the strawberries. There were end of season very marked down plants last fall and all survived and have some berries. I'll be hitting the mark down racks again in a few months...
I didn't get much success with the sorry bare root strawberry plants I was finally able to find, but several did survive and at least one had a nice berry on last time I looked. I have also found several wild ones and it looks like the wild bramble berries might bear as well.
My blueberries seem to be doing better than the strawberries. There were end of season very marked down plants last fall and all survived and have some berries. I'll be hitting the mark down racks again in a few months...
Last year when our strawberries shot out runners, we put them into butter tubs to root. They rooted and we left them there [thinking that we would transplant them in the spring]. This spring we saw that even though each had rooted, they did not survive the winter freeze. But the plants in the drums did survive fine.
So we have learned that once rooted, they need to be transplanted to deeper soil before winter.
If you would like to receive ours this time for your own garden, you can have them.
Last year when our strawberries shot out runners, we put them into butter tubs to root. They rooted and we left them there [thinking that we would transplant them in the spring]. This spring we saw that even though each had rooted, they did not survive the winter freeze. But the plants in the drums did survive fine.
So we have learned that once rooted, they need to be transplanted to deeper soil before winter.
If you would like to receive ours this time for your own garden, you can have them.
I would gladly accept some of your runner plants to add to my patch. I'd say I have about 4 plants out there at present! LOL
I'd love to be able to switch us over to growing our own, but until John gets this next surgery he's pretty much immobile, and trying to get down the hills to the garden just don't work.
I have a couple of dozen strawberry plants in and among my roses......the ones I have are mostly the ones with a pink flower......I have been enjoying eating two or three each morning before the slugs get them..... My garden is more about old perenial flowers that tie me to my past..but there is room for strawberries and a couple of tomatoes, etc. the strawberries are sweet and an early morning treat.
Beautiful photos Forest! A delight for the eyes...wishing you a bumper crop.
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