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Jul 15, 2012 11:08:44 GMT -5
Post by littleminnie on Jul 15, 2012 11:08:44 GMT -5
OK more strawberry questions. I have 1/3 of a bed as day neutral and 2/3 June bearing. I kept the flowers off the June bearing. So they should be making runners. How many runners/daughters can I expect next year? Will I need to move them to a new bed and when and how much room?
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Jul 15, 2012 11:54:59 GMT -5
Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 15, 2012 11:54:59 GMT -5
OK more strawberry questions. I have 1/3 of a bed as day neutral and 2/3 June bearing. I kept the flowers off the June bearing. So they should be making runners. How many runners/daughters can I expect next year? Will I need to move them to a new bed and when and how much room? I expect around a dozen daughter plants during the first growing season year. I leave them in the bed unless I want to transplant some to a new bed. I transplant in the late fall, because in my low humidity climate during the heat of the summer it's hard to move a plant and keep it watered well enough to survive while it re-establishes a root system. I plant new beds at about 18" spacing in the row with rows 4' apart. |
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Sept 25, 2012 20:08:18 GMT -5
Post by littleminnie on Sept 25, 2012 20:08:18 GMT -5
I feel so dumb about berries but I have more questions. I pinched all the flowers on the June bearers and they have many runners now. I plan to transplant the runners in late summer-early fall NEXT year into a nearby bed then renovate the old bed.
The everbearers are producing nicely now and I have kept them covered through the frost. I only have 25 plants and so it is just a little taste for the CSAs. I want more everbearers. Should I buy more next spring or can I propagate them somehow? If I buy more maybe I will get day neutral instead.
Last question is when I transplant the runners next fall will it make another 3x50 foot bed or much less than that? How many will there be and how much room does that take?
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Sept 25, 2012 20:59:50 GMT -5
Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 25, 2012 20:59:50 GMT -5
Littleminnie: I am one year ahead of you regarding strawberries. I only planted day-neutrals because I wanted an extended harvest. They went into the ground in the spring of 2011. They are still flowering and producing the best berries of the season. It's been two weeks since our first fall frosts.
I estimate that each mother produced a cumulative total of couple dozen runners during that time. Last fall there were plenty of runners that I attempted to transplant into a second row, but it was after the irrigation had been turned off, and the fall rains were unreliable, so they mostly died. This fall I transplanted another row, and I have irrigated about every other day, so they are looking great.
The original row spaced at 18" is now a tightly packed bed about 2 feet wide. It would be wider if I didn't till, and/or kick runners back towards the row. I bet that by next fall you will be rephrasing the question into something like: "How do I get rid of all these extra strawberry plants?"
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Sept 25, 2012 21:16:47 GMT -5
Post by littleminnie on Sept 25, 2012 21:16:47 GMT -5
LOL. I am just trying to plan the garden layout. I see lots of runners but cannot picture how much of a bed they will make in one year. If you had a dozen per plant that is a lot!
And also want more berries over the late summer and wonder about how to propagate the everbearing.
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Sept 27, 2012 14:18:43 GMT -5
Post by richardw on Sept 27, 2012 14:18:43 GMT -5
Anyone grow there strawberry plants from seed??
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Sept 27, 2012 18:18:00 GMT -5
Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 27, 2012 18:18:00 GMT -5
I saved day-neutral strawberry seeds this fall. I'm intending to grow the seed next spring. Next time I ferment a batch of strawberry seed, I think that I'll put them through the blender first. Would probably recover more seeds. Also, I'll set the bucket far away from any place that I frequent. I never saw such a fruit fly attractant in my life!!!!
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Sept 27, 2012 19:35:05 GMT -5
Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 27, 2012 19:35:05 GMT -5
These strawberries were planted 18" apart in a single row in the spring of 2011. Each mother has expanded to around 100 plants in two growing seasons. The foot is perpendicular to the row.  |
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Sept 27, 2012 22:30:51 GMT -5
Post by steev on Sept 27, 2012 22:30:51 GMT -5
I've heard of people tilling strips through the berry patch, letting the runners colonize the tilled strips, then next year tilling the old plant strips, and so back and forth, to keep the patch "young" and productive.
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Sept 28, 2012 5:03:51 GMT -5
Post by richardw on Sept 28, 2012 5:03:51 GMT -5
I saved day-neutral strawberry seeds this fall. I'm intending to grow the seed next spring. Next time I ferment a batch of strawberry seed, I think that I'll put them through the blender first. Would probably recover more seeds. Also, I'll set the bucket far away from any place that I frequent. I never saw such a fruit fly attractant in my life!!!! Ive been playing around growing all my strawberry plants from seed for the last three years,but all my plants have come from small seedlings that have come up from between the strawberry beds,any rotten fruit gets thrown there when we are doing the picking with the idea that thats where i get the next seasons plants from.Last season i took seed from the best producing plant and sowed them mid summer,but nothing came up so i'm now sure that the seed needs winter chill before they will germinate.So this season i'm going to try again but sow the seed in autumn and leave the tray outside for the winter,hoping it works. Certainly the fruit is of good size form my seedling plants  |
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Sept 28, 2012 7:01:15 GMT -5
Post by blueadzuki on Sept 28, 2012 7:01:15 GMT -5
Anyone grow there strawberry plants from seed?? I supposed I did, though "grow" is a bit of a stretch. I just tossed a packed of white alpine stawberry seed into a pot in the spring and let it do it's thing. Small crowns appeared that fall, I had a few berries by the next year. |
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Oct 10, 2012 5:07:09 GMT -5
Post by raymondo on Oct 10, 2012 5:07:09 GMT -5
That's a decent sized strawberry Richard! How's the flavour?
Blueadzuki, several years ago someone gave me a few white alpine strawberries. They colonised a large area in mere months. They were so aggressive that I decided to rip them out and compost them! One distinct advantage to the whites though...the birds seemed to ignore them completely.
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Jun 23, 2013 22:52:56 GMT -5
Post by littleminnie on Jun 23, 2013 22:52:56 GMT -5
 Here are the berries I picked today from the plants I planted last year. I put in 50 more everbearing this spring but I have forgotten to take off the flowers! What should I do now? remove the flowers/ fruit? Leave the fruit and let the energy reabsorb the way tulip bulbs do? |
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Jun 23, 2013 23:32:46 GMT -5
Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jun 23, 2013 23:32:46 GMT -5
I put in 50 more everbearing this spring but I have forgotten to take off the flowers! What should I do now? remove the flowers/ fruit? Enjoy the berries. Great looking basket. |
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Jun 24, 2013 0:03:36 GMT -5
Post by steev on Jun 24, 2013 0:03:36 GMT -5
Alpine strawberries have colonized my landlady's yard, the last couple of years; I suppose some neighbor is growing them and the birds have spread them around.
I've started growing them for transplants to the farm, because they dry readily, so it's easy to amass and store a quantity, even though they're small and sparsely fruitful.
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