strawberries in raised beds in Minnesota zone 3
gardenerjan12
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Comments (2)If you are in a dry area with sandy soil, work on building the organic matter first, and do not use raised beds. This summer dump tons of grass clippings and in the fall add a foot or two of leaves. After planting the strawberries, put a thick layer of weed-free straw around the plants to hold more moisture and keep the roots cool. Seascape is my favorite variety here in dry zone 5. It produces wonderful berries almost all summer long. good luck...See MoreStrawberries for zone 3
Comments (4)Thanks for your reply! It's probably getting too late to re-order strawberries from a catalog, so I'll have to see what area nurseries have to offer, but will read up, and keep a lookout for the Cavendish. I'm having black dirt hauled in for the new strawberry bed. What I bought last year had a PH of about 8. I have a couple bags of organic mulch to mix, plus I bought a bag of soil acidfier if needed, to get the PH down a little. It's going to be a raised bed, but do you think I should add sand, or pearlite to the soil so it's not so heavy and has better drainage? Thanks, Tom...See MoreRaised bed fall strawberries - spacing?
Comments (9)My thought is that if you have to ask the questions you are asking, having a strawberry crop and another crop in one year in the same space is not going to be a fun year for you. Strawberry plants live for years, and most of them will shoot out to create more plants with much effort and energy. Unless you are a roots building guru, it usually takes a couple of years to really get a good production of berries. My advice is focus on the type of strawberry (June bearing, or All Season bearing), and decide if you want to devote the space to growing strawberries. Alternatively you could plant alpine strawberries which are more tame, with smaller though very tasty berries, but do not spread as weedily as your typical strawberry plant. If space is an issue, just don't plant strawberries... they take a lot of room. There is a nearby farm that grows june bearing in 3 foot rows spaced at 12 inch, but they don't plant something else there after harvest....See MorePerennials in zone 3 raised beds?
Comments (4)12 inches deep ... what is under it ...hopefully its not an enclosed box ... or bad clay under ... is the soil added.. similar to the native soil ... in cold zones.. winter drainage is a big issue ... you dont want things going into dormancy real wet ... and the roots freezing into an ice cube ... oh ... do you have complete snow cover all winter .... this blanket of insulation would be important ... i mean really.. if you usually have 2 feet of snow.. your 12 inches of raised soil.. will be quite moot .... the usual key with perennials is.. get them dormant.. and keep them dormant all winter ... bare soil in winter.. can thaw and freeze all winter long.. and plants have little sense of humor about that.. especially if the soil is only 12 inches deep ... in other words.. the roots go in and out of dormancy ... though we can bandy about all kinds of variables.. and how to deal with them.. the bottom line will probably come down to you just experimenting.. and finding out how it all works in your garden ... what caused you to raise the soil 12 inches???? ken ps: the way you phrased it.. i wonder if you already have the plants .. and if not.. where are you going to get them ... if you use a local nursery ... one would hope they would sell plants proper for your area and winter ... if you are thinking about mail order.. well that adds a whole other level of difficulty in choosing the right plants ......See MoreFrozeBudd_z3/4
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