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myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening2 years ago

Well seems with the sun today and yesterday my area where I have strawberries planted have warmed up enogh to melt nearly all the snow. This gives my strawberries time to enjoy the warmth preparing to be growing like wildfire for me. It is going to be in the mid 60's most the week as well so they will be enjoying the sun basking in it's rays.This is the result of 2 plants planted last spring. It's hard to tell but from the shoots going out there are maybe 20 plants now. So I am looking forward to a large supply of strawberries I hope. Do you have strawberries at all in your garden? Is there nothing better than a sun warmed strawberry picked and eaten right off the vine? I love them.
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1. myLot reputation of 95/100. rebecca1957 (104)   ranked 200 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

We started our strawberry patch with about a dozen plants. They grew and expanded out. Last year my mother called me and asked if we wanted all her plants. We dug up all the plants and planted over 50 new plants into our patch. This year will be a fantastic year for strawberries! I'm excited because my husband likes to make wine and he's going to try making strawberry wine this year.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

Sounds cool. When I was a child my mom had a HUGE patch of strawberries. the area she had them in was about 100 feet by 200 feet. Like I said HUGE. I got sick of strawbeey jelly and strawberry jam. But now that I am growing them I want even more than she had. but that's not going to happen as I don't have the room nor the time for much more in my garden.
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2. myLot reputation of 43/100. Kahawa (1075)   ranked 509 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

Strawberry is one of my favorite fruits.
I prefer the Swedish one,beacuse of the taste.
Do you have wild strawberry in your country?


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

Yes there are wold strawberries all over actually.
Did you ever get my P.M.?
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myLot reputation of 43/100. Kahawa (1075)   ranked 509 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

No,my friend
I never received a PM from you


myLot reputation of 95/100. rebecca1957 (104)   ranked 200 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

What are the Swedish ones? I've never heard of a Swedish variety. I am 100% 3rd generation Swedish American. The kind we have are ready to pick in June through first part of July. After that they are pretty much over with.


myLot reputation of 43/100. Kahawa (1075)   ranked 509 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

In swedish we call it smultron.
I think you can search for it with google or wikipedia


myLot reputation of 95/100. rebecca1957 (104)   ranked 200 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

That's interesting. I'll search it out!


myLot reputation of 43/100. Kahawa (1075)   ranked 509 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

Have a great day

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3. myLot reputation of 99/100. blackbriar (6075)   ranked 9 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

My strawberries are planted on the west side of the house so only gets the afternoon sun. As a result, they haven't started peeking thru the leaf mulch yet. When they do thou, watch out, cause 4 plants last spring turned into over 40 by mid fall. I was having a hard time keeping them under control. There were supposed to be tons of strawberries, but since I didn't cover them, the rabbits and deer had a feast compliments of your's truely. This spring I have armed myself with a floating row cover that lets the air,water, and sun in but keeps the pesky critters out. Nothing tastes better than a sun-ripened and warmed strawberry thou.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

These are planted in a skinny area between my garage and fence. it's about 3 feet wide only. I am fencing it off this summer so Buster won't use that as his toilet. it will mwean more yard cleaning of his mess but I want this area to thrive as much as possible. It gets the morning and afternoon sun till about 4 or so. So it will have plenty sun throughout the spring and summer. Mine seemed to do well enduring the winter here. With Buster running in the yard the critters tend to eat out front on my lilies.
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myLot reputation of 99/100. blackbriar (6075)   ranked 9 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

When I was outside picking up Domingo's landmines, I wandered over to the strawberry patch just to see if any of the plants were peeking thru yet and guess what I saw? Yeup, you guessed it. They are not only peeking but starting to pop up completely thru the leaves. I came back inside and grabbed my camera for a quick shot. brrrrrrr....it's 42 outside. I'm staying in rest of the day where it's warm.

 

myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

I set my chairs out on my front deck this afternoon. It was nicer than expected. Windy but about 50 degrees. Mine are popping through ice and snow right now as well.
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4. myLot reputation of 90/100. Ldyjarhead (5170)   ranked 21 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago


I've never put strawberries in, but it sure does sound good.

I take that back. When I owned my first home in Plymouth, Mass, there were some strawberry plants in the back yard that put out the biggest strawberries I'd ever seen. Unfortunately I had my second child while there and was still on active duty, so there was little time to mess with any of that stuff.

I do have one strawberry pot here. How much can you grow in one pot?





myLot reputation of 95/100. rebecca1957 (104)   ranked 200 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

Because strawberries send out shoots with a new plant on it, I'm not sure how many you can keep in one pot. You might try a long type planter and see how many you can grow in that.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

They sell hanging planters with climbing strawberries at WalMarts.
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myLot reputation of 90/100. Ldyjarhead (5170)   ranked 21 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago


The whole idea is to do this as cheaply as possible without having to buy more pots, etc.

I do have this one pot (and it has strawberries painted on the outside!) so I thought I'd try tucking a plant or two in there, just not sure how many would fit and if it would be worthwhile to do just the one pot full.

From what I've read, you can put one plant per opening, then a couple more on top.

Maybe I'll give it a try - we'll see. Depends on the cost of the plants.



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5. myLot reputation of 93/100. carmelanirel (6315)   ranked 54 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

I use to have everlasting strawberries, but they didn't do well..I just have wild strawberries now..They are new, I transplanted them from a neighbor about 2 years ago..So we will see if I get anything, because this neighbor got a lot from these, I am hoping we will too..


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

I have no idea if these are everlasting as I had just a few plants and maybe 4 or 5 berries last year. With they way they've spread I'll let ya know if they are regular or everblooming.
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6. myLot reputation of 96/100. book1962 (14301)   ranked 283 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

my mom has a small garden and all of a sudden we had one small plant of wild strawberries growing there. She carefully dug it out and gave a new place to it and by now its also a good number of plants with very small and delicious fruits.
Hope you will have lots of berries to enjoy this summertime. you seem to be a great gardener. Good luck on this.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

Yeah the plants send shoots out all year long. You can guide these shoots by hand setting them in a cleared out area for them to take root. I am training mine this way each spring now. Thanks also.
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7. myLot reputation of 69/100. p3halliwel2005 (2478)   ranked 1,438 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

Hey there gramps..Wow Strawberries..I love strawberries. I don't have strawberries in my Garden.Usually strawberries are in a place called Baguio here in the Philippines. It grows well in cold places. It will just die here in our place because it is very hot and I don't think the strawberries would want our hot weather here. Some malls have them but it's much nicer to get it fresh right off Baguio.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

It's cold here from like Novemeber through April. They survive the winters well here blooming in June or July depending on the weather as well. The fresh ones from the garden are WAY better than store bought.
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8. myLot reputation of 95/100. jeanniemay (1187)   ranked 1,363 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

Wow! Those are lovely grandpa Bob.

I missed home... at my province, we have strawberries and it's just so nice to pick one at the garden and ate it there at the same time. We don't use chemicals to protect or grow them, it's easy to make them grow, they multiply easily and their vines spreads fast.

Though, we don't have snow, it's just summer or rainy days. Yes, it's better and seems sweeter when you just picked them at eat right off the vine.

Memories.. makes me really brings back home.. happy


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

In my 5 years owning this house and gardening I have never added anything to my garden as far as fertilizers etc. Just plant them, weed them, and water them is all I do. I hate chemicls.
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9. myLot reputation of 95/100. minnie_98214 (4374)   ranked 289 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

None in my yard ill just be stealing from you of course. I think I may try again this year we will see mabey wait till next year.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

You need a good sized area that is cleared of weeds and need to weed them often or they have a hard time spreading. We can give ya a couple plants this fall from the batch here.
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myLot reputation of 95/100. minnie_98214 (4374)   ranked 289 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

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10. myLot reputation of 98/100. jennybianca (5860)   ranked 5 out of 2,554 in gardening   2 years ago

I do have strawberries. When our friends moved interstate, they gave me all their strawberry plants. There are about 10 tubs with around 20 starberry plants. A few died in the 15 day heatwave, but those that survived look very healthy. I am not sure when they produce strawberries? Maybe in spring.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

Strawberries are the one fruit I have that really needs water a lot. Yes mine bloom in June or July usually. Then the fruits in August. So late Summer for some fruit.
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myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12347)   ranked 7 out of 2,554 in gardening  2 years ago

Oh,and YES that is snow and ice still in the
yard that the strawberries are poking through.
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