Strawberry

My strawberries have already come and gone. I know I had over 50 berries but the rabbits beat me to em once ripened. Told hubby we gotta get some kind of barrier to put around the strawberry bed so the wascaly wabbits don't get me next spring. Once your plants start sending out runners, put em in a small pot with soil to root in. Then snip off the new plants and plant them farther away from the parent plants. That's how I get my strawberry bed to expand w/o crowding.

Oh I love strawberries and there is nothing like a strawberry fresh off the vine. I'm afraid mine won't be producing much this year as with the move I dug them up and they were in a confined space on a hot deck for to long. Their back in the ground at the new location and plants are coming back but doubt I'll get berries this year.

I'm amazed that you have a berry on there already. But knowing how much of a green thumb you have, it doesn't surprise me one bit. LOL

I'd love to grow some strawberries but it will have to be in pots. Do you think a quality potting mix would be okay or should I mix something with it? I have lots of goat poo and horse poo available. Our soil is very sandy here.

Yum, stawberries, I would love some. Tonight we had our first crop of green beans I put them on the grill wrapped in foil. They where a little aldente but good. Fresh veggies. YUM

Wow, that's great that you got some this year. Do you know if it is too late to get strawberry plants? I just found a good pot for them and am having a hard time finding the plants now.

It usually takes a year or two for the plants to really start putting out a good crop. Keep them in full sun and give them good fertilizer and they will produce well for you.

I've tried growing some strawberries from seed this year. I planted them a little late, but I don't think the weather has been good enough here. They are in a greenhouse (plastic tent thing!) but I still only have a few seedlings. I didn't know the plants would last over winter, so I'll re-pot them and leave them in their tent this year. Hopefully next year I'll get some fruit (I'll plant my seeds a LOT earlier too!). The good news is that I have 4 apples growing on one of my trees. I didn't think I'd have any as I only bought them as dry saplings in the spring and from the two I have, only one blossomed this year. I also have a bumper crop od spring-onions and my peas are coming along nicely. Wishing you a bountiful harvest! The gardening Rookie - Rhino.

Our biggest problems with trying to grow starwberries is that lizards eat them, especially the sleepy lizards. They see to love them. I guess if i tried growing strawberies out the back, the dogs would eat them. Yoiu are going to have some great strawberries. Better get ready to make that rubarb & srtawbery pie. I rated youur photo & wrote a comment.

Oh I am so envious! Strawberries are one of my favorite foods. I can eat them by the bowl full! They are great right off the vine...nothing on them! I shall have to ask hubby to find another spot in our yard and grow some strawberries for me!

Very nice. You could hold your very own Wimbledon! (by that I mean, have fresh strawberries and cream) lovely on a nice warm day :) Thanks for sharing, ~Joey

You planted them only 3 or 4 weeks ago and already have about 20 strawberries? NICE! You DID plant late. my aunt and uncle have a HUGE garden in their yard. They grow a lot of what they eat. They have quite a few strawberry plants and i remember when i was little i used to love to go in there and eat them right off the vines. So delicious!

You folks really do have a green thumb. You do wonderful things with a yard.

congadulations!!! I am not a gardener but I also planted strawberry plants this year. I planted 18 and I have 12 surviving. I can't believe how well that they are growing. I have had mine in the ground for about 6 weeks and several of them have runners already. I was told the pinching off the flowers would help them grow faster so I did it on on plant an it worked. It's now the biggest one. I still can't believe that they suvived me taking care of them.

thats awesome, I love strawberries.... I need to plant some net year

Hi Granpa Bob Im so jealous I love strawberries so much. I tried growing some awhile ago from seeds but they didnt take. I didnt plant them in the ground thou. I think I will try doing that over at the new place. Im so tired right now we moved alot of big things over today. And next week by this time I will be in there.LOL Send me some of your strawberries. I wish you luck with them.

I'm sorry to tell grandpa but there is another glitch at mylot.Here and few hours we can't see any photo here for these another member told you that can't see you photo me either. I'll be back when they fix the problem.Anyway you must have a very nice garden there.

It's been many years since I've actually seen strawberry plants, Grandpa Bob. We used to grow them when I was a kid, and it was such fun to pick them, and they were so delicious. The strawberry shortcake was yummy.:)

Must be perfect growing conditions for your strawberries. Just imagine how crazy they would grow if you put Miracle Grow on them. Good job on your strawberry growing success.