Re: Strawberries

ROSS E STANFORD tapped the keys thusly:

>I need help with my strawberries. 

Just to be silly...

Maybe showering with your love and attention, putting them in nice cozy 
beds with lots of friends and food, freaked them out from the 
neglectfulness of their former parents. It sounds like they're getting 
the right stuff, but need time to adjust to the conditions. 

Strawberries are a hardy yet tempermental lot. The patch that used to be 
in front of our house( literally wedged up to the floorboards) was totlly 
neglected but came back with a vengeance every year. Some fool ripped 'em 
out one year thinking they were weeds...

The patch I put in this year were $.50 a six-pack. Brown little stumps 
mixed in with good healthy lookin' ones. In my general ignorance of what 
a stawberry patch really needs, I lay down those plants amongst the 
sunflowers with nothing but tilled dirt. I watered them when they looked 
dry, fed them weekly with Miracle-Gro and the brown ones turned green, 
the green ones thrived and we got lots of strawberries for my 2 year old 
to tromp and pick! and eat...

So I don't have the answers for you, Stan. But I thought a little cheap 
and lazy experience would sit well with you. A success story from the 
East. I'll WUNY, when nothing comes back from the winter but a bunch of 
brown stubs and no amount of positive energy brings them back...I guess 
then I'll have to listen to someone's expert advice.

Nice to see you again!
Michelle Zone7. MD
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