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Re: Strawberries,

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EXACTLY!!!!
there ya go!!!


On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:56:39 -0600 Dan Harriman <kc5gxl@dcnet2000.com>
writes:
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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:
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> 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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