New strawberry bed
Cathy Kaufell
6 years ago
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6 years agoVaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
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Establishing Strawberries
Comments (0)New strawberry bed this year. Raised bed, black plastic mulch to warm the soil (it's cold here). 100 plants planted. We just removed all the flowers. That's standard in the first year to help establish strong root systems. It hurts to cut off the potential berries. I was sniveling the whole time. But it really is worth doing. The plants acted like they'd gotten a shot of fertilizer, shooting up in size. The plants look great. Now they are happily setting more flowers, which I will have to cut off (sigh). All for the better of future yields. At any rate, if you wonder if it is really necessary to cut off the blooms the first year while plants get established, the answer is: probably not 100% necessary, but you will for sure get better stronger plants and a better crop in the future....See MorePutting the Old Year to Bed, and welcoming in the New
Comments (6)Well the last year-and-a-half have been complete upheavals and as much as I'd like to get some settling-down done it probably isn't going to happen. LOL. Initially our plans were to move back, settle in and improve our home. We've done mostly cosmetic improvements since July -new carpeting and painting in the basement, new floor in the upstairs bath as well as new sink/vanity and toilet. In the kitchen we put in a new stove and refrigerator. We're going to do some more work in the kitchen -new counters and floor and repainting cabinets. We were looking at an addition that would have added a new bedroom, master bath and enlarged the master bedroom. We also were going to upgrade and put in central air. Instead we have come to the realization that such an addition would completely price our home out of the surrounding neighborhood. We live on a street of very modest ranch homes that are the smallest and lowest-value homes in the entire division. It would make no sense to put so much money into our home when none of the neighbors are currently doing any similar improvements. In fact I've become even less enthused with the neighborhood. Some of the homes have recently sold and there has been some quality of life issues with some of the new neighbors. Two of the properties are currently vacant. One seems to be always up for sale and one is a vacant rental property that has been slowly deteriorating since the original owners sold it two years ago. Sooooooooo we may be doing fix-up with an eye to sell. If we don't decide to sell, I've got seeds I'm ordering and a garden to re-do after a year of neglect. BIG project. DS thinks only DD exists in our photo albums so a big project on my list is to get all our photos up to date in albums. I've been doing artwork (paintings and jewelry) that I'm looking to sell online. I plan to open a shop this month on Etsy. My grandfather did a lot of stained glass work and I inherited his glass. I want to take some classes and put these materials to good use. I want to make something special from the glass to give to each of my siblings. My descriptor has been 'flux'. Flux 2008....See MoreAdvice on extra strawberry plants
Comments (2)Hey squirrelly girly! Go ahead and pot your plants up now and then just overwinter outside. I water them when they are dry, once every few days in the winter. Been dividing and overwintering for years. Then I've been replanting in my yard, but you can surely try and sell them. Quinalt are a big seller at Holy Comforter. Our prices have varied depending on how many plants we have...if we have bucketloads I'll run a special discount, and even greater savings if you buy a whole flat. You could go ahead and pot up groups of plants in a large pot - which is also helpful to you. You'll eventually need to take out the mother plants and plant her babies. I find this is easiest by taking out the babies, potting them, clearing out the entire bed of old berries and re-planting new ones. I find the babies tend to want to start on the outreaches of the bed, so it works well for me. Even better, when the babies start forming (I have very narrow beds so this works) I fill some window boxes with soil, and use begs made from wire hangers to pin the babies into the window boxes along side the strawberry beds. I've had some great harvests of both baby plants and berries!...See MoreToo Late for Bare Root Strawberry Plants?
Comments (8)I'd say chances of finding bare root stock in good condition at this time of year are slim to none. Most plants are setting blooms now and getting ready to start producing fruit. Bare root is used for dormant plants - strawberries should not be dormant at this time of year!! FWIW, my local nursery gets in bare root strawberries by the bushel in early February. But they immediately pot them up - 5 plants per pot. That is really the only way to protect those tiny root systems from drying out and the plants dying or being damaged by folks rummaging through a bin of bare root. That way, the plants can be sold well into the season (or until they run out) without concern for their health and viability....See MoreCathy Kaufell
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5 years agoVaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
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