RE: Strawberries
- To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: RE: Strawberries
- From: R* L* C*
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:19:32 -0600
- Importance: Normal
Kurt,
Your uninvited guest is Duchesnia indica. It has also appeared in my
garden, but so far has stayed under a large Quercus rober, providing ground
cover. It seems to be reasonably easy to control by just pulling it out of
unwanted areas.
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Robert L. Chehey
Boise, ID, USA
Cool, Mediterranean Shrub-steppe
and frondose riparian forest
N43º38.67' W116º13.68' Altitude: 770M
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My strawberry question is this. I noticed a "wild" strawberry that had
self-sown (or been sown by birds) in my garden a few years back, and thought
that it was a pretty thing, with yellow flowers and small, attractive, but
inedible fruit. Now it is threatening to take over the entire garden. So
far it has only covered a formerly bare, shady place between two sweet
cherries, but it is beginning to really "come into its own" now, and is
branching out in every direction. I have had to intervene a couple of times
to keep it from smothering a particularly attractive variegated Ajuga, and I
can see that it is going to be a continuous battle unless I do something
drastic. Like all strawberries, it throws out runners in every direction,
and roots at every node. The rooted nodes are particularly tenacious, and
I'm beginning to think of it as only a slightly more attractive form of
Bermuda grass! Any suggestions? Thanks.
Kurt Mize
Stockton, California
USDA Zone 9
