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Re: Strawberries,

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Hello all;

I used to grow strawberries, lots of strawberries. My dad taught me how to
grow them. He grew lots of strawberries, too! In fact, he used to pay his
taxes from the sale of them at the farmers' markets.

We would let them make runners the first year. Then the second year we
would pick the fruit from the 
original plants. We would then remove those plants. The runners that we
allowed the first year made 
runners the second year. The third year we would pick the berries from the
two year old plants. 
We would also let the runner plants from the second year make runners. We
removed the old plants after fruiting. The process repeated itself several
years. The bed would move every year a foot or two. By the end of the third
or fourth year, the original plot would be reused.

Synopsis:

Yr 1  plants making runners
yr 2  1st year plants fruiting and second yr plants making runners
yr 3 2nd yr plants fruiting and third yr plants making runners
yr4 3rd yr plants fruiting and 4th yr plants making runners.

We would let the plants make two runners per plant. One on each side of the
row. When we wanted to increase the bed even more, we would allow three or
four runners per plant.

Hope that helps a little.

Dan Harriman
Houston, Tx zone 9.

 
At 09:49 PM 3/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>>>>I  wrote:>>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.
>
>Okay, understand that I'm no expert here. I have strawberries for the first
>time this year, planted last fall, so the roots should be well developed
>and I won't be picking off the blossoms this year. (I also planted some
>
>Soooo, I actually do not know for sure whether this year's daughter plants
>produce fruit the same year. They may not, but I was under the impression
>that at least for some varieties (those that are everbearing?)  they do.
>
>
>Anyway, strawberries are perennials. So are tomatoes. Because tomatoes are
>TENDER perennials (being a tropical plant), we treat them as annuals.
>
>So, if one were to take strawberries and *treat them like annuals,* one
>would be replaci the bed after one year. 
>
>I wrote: >>"Runners take fruiting energy" is the key point, it seems to me.
>You seem
>>to be describing a sort of hybrid version of the two systems. Kewl.
>
>Bill wrote:
>>  More runners, fruit later.  
>
>Ummm, I'm not sure about that. I think it might be more runners, less
>fruit, made up by more daughter plants also fruiting? After all, the
>plant's energy is going into those new roots as well. 

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