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#290522 Jul 22nd, 2009 at 04:54 PM
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This is my first year growing any strawberrys. At this point I have had maybe a dozen and a half out of four plants. Even though I say a dozen or so....I have only really had two big enough to be worth while to eat and even those weren't very big. They are the Ever Bearing Strawberry breed. I don't have them on a mound and my garden has average drainage. So....any suggestions? This normal for first year plants?


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They should be fine. I started out with just two Ozarks last year and one small strawberry. I let them grow like wild all season and covered them with straw and this spring I had up to thirty plants and about 10 of them were fully established and huge. I had maybe 150 strawberries in about a two months.


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Ditto. I planted four plants this spring & had maybe six berries. Now the plants are running all over the place. I expect them to bear well next year.


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Well I was able to pick one strawberry yesterday. It was sooooo good.

Will the plants keep producing as you pick them?

I only have two plants, one plants has about 2 other strawbeeriers starting but the other plant does not have any on it.

How often do I water them?


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Do you know the variety? Some are everbearing.

Not sure how dry your weather is , I'd water them a few times a week and lightly..not in the full heat of the day or strong sun.

Leave them set runners and you'll end up with lots of baby plants from just a few. I started off with 12 plants and now have over 100.


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yep, one plant produces many. Pick sll berries, it will encourage more. Bonemeal is a good organic Phosphorous source, and strawberries like lots of P. Maximum production will be in the second or third year, read up meanwhile on seperating new runners, which will be more productive, but don't be afraid to experiment or just leave them alone, you will have lots of strawberries soon. As an organic grower, I would put on bonemeal and horse, cow, or rabbit manure, but short of gtting a soil test, thre's some guesswork involved.


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