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Re: strawberries

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Cyn wrote:
>I remember seeing the question last week about strawberry spacing, but don't 
>remember seeing an answer.  Checked the archives and can't find it there, 
>either.
>Anyone got a spacing to recommend?

Well, someone a while back pointed out that it depends on what method of
growing strawberries you intend to use. I think there are 3 methods, but
all I can remember tonight is matted row and the other (duh -- my brain is
fried tonight and I'm sorry but I'm too tired to go looking in any of my
books). Matted row is treating them more or less like annuals, where you
let all the runners do their thing, making more plants, and then you
replant the whole bed next year. 

I've got three 3 x 10 ft. strawberry beds (and blossoms already!!! yippee).
I do NOT intend to treat them as annuals, which means I will pinch off
runners UNLESS there's a plant I want to replace somewhere. With this
method, the strawberries can be more or less self-regenerating and should
last a number of years. 

I planted mine approximately 1 ft apart, checkerboard fashion. In
actuality, there are 3 plants in each *row* (or rather across the 3 foot
width), but staggered. This actually happened because I'm a sloppy planter.
(If I had to plant things in the old row method, it would more probably end
up a a zigzag. No, not probably -- definitely.)

I'm not saying this is THE way to do strawberries in the sq ft method --
I'm just sharing what I did since no one else has spoken up on the matter.
IIRC, the instructions that came with the strawberries suggested 1 foot
spacing, so that's was probably what I took as my marching orders. I
planted them last fall, so this will be my first year with any fruit. They
did very well through the winter -- I was surprised that they didn't die
back. I think I can thank the raised beds and the straw mulch. Or maybe
that's just what they do here in West Georgia, zone 7b. 

HTH,
Patricia


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