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What's the best way to prepare a strawberry bed?
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Posted by Alison 5/OH (My Page) on Mon, Jun 7, 04 at 15:13
| I am digging up a lot of June-bearing strawberries and giving them to a friend. I inherited them and don't know much about strawberries, and she doesn't know much about gardening -- any suggestions on how she could prepare a bed for them to help them grow best? |
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RE: What's the best way to prepare a strawberry bed?
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| You have posted this to the "edible" forum. |
RE: What's the best way to prepare a strawberry bed?
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| Plant as regular perennials if you want just "landscape" your yard or as vegetables if you want good harvest. |
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Well for eating purposes:
Idealy a raised bed with well draining soil in at least 5-6 hr. sun. Away from moist areas of grasses and such to reduce slug infestation. Amended with compost or manure, or some other fertalizing admendment. If you cannot make a raised bed then it is best to make a seperate area from the rest of a vegtable garden that is a permament area. Water regularly. Prune blooms til at least 5 leaves have developed, then you can allow for fruit to set. June bearing have laready bloomed for the season. They are known to set big crops in May -June time. They will send out runners in which you can obtain more plants for next year - Still keep the ones you have!. Cut runners off until at least 5 healthy leaves have developed. Life span for most strawberry plants is apporx. 3 years then fruit will deplete. when season is complete before frost mulch well to protect them for next year. Kathy |
RE: What's the best way to prepare a strawberry bed?
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| gurney's catalog offers a pyramidal starwberry bed,it has 3 layers with a sprinkler system on the highest level of the pyramid,as well as netting to keep critters out of your crop and plastic covering if necessary.i hope this helps you. |
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| Check out the FRUIT & ORCHARD forum for more info. |
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| I'm wondering if anyone had purchaced the Pyramidal Strawberry Bed out of the gurney's calolog? And is it worth it? |
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