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Original message:
I am thinking that strawberries would be a great addition to my garden, but
I know they sprawl terrifically.  Has anyone tried the "strawberry pots"
available at garden stores?  Any suggestions for a novice strawberry-grower?
Mary Thorp
Richmond, IN
Zone 5


Mary:

We've tried pots, and we've tried strawberries.  I found them to be labor
intensive (but worth it!)
One thing about pots is that you MUST keep up with the watering, especially
if you have a sunny deck (such as we do!)  We're talking about, in the
summertime, sometimes twice a day.  If you could rig up a drip hose for it
on the timer, so much the better.

As far as field strawberries, we didn't keep up with it and ended up ripping
them all out because of mold/fungus.  This was our fault.  Strawberries work
like this:  Your first plant becomes the "mother" plant; after they've
established, they send out runners (called "daughters").  It's recommended
that the first year, you pinch off the daughters to establish the mothers.

After the mothers are established, you'll get not only a nice crop of
strawberries, but a nice crop of daughters.  To keep everything equal, you
need to plant the daughters (if they haven't already rooted) and remove the
mothers.

We're going to try it again, but this time, we are going to have a row of
mothers, and a blank row, and on & on.  Then, when the daughters come in, we
will plant the daughters in the blank row, and till under the mothers at the
end of the season.

The work is worth it, because just picked strawberries are luscious!  (never
enough for strawberry pie, because the kids are worse than the wildlife!)

Hope this helps!

Peace,

Patti


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