Kurlie77,
Can I ask a couple of questions about your
plants?
When you first got your strawberries before they got the bugs, how did you
plant them??
Very important!!!
Planting them the right way is HALF your battle of
growing strawberries...
If you
plant them too deep they will struggle, maybe even die, if you
plant them too far out of the ground, again, same thing can happen....
Whe they struggle they often send out signals to bugs, they aren't happy as to HOW they are planted and that's maybe why they got the bugs.
The
plants need to be planted half way in/half way out....(*I desperately need a pencil here.*)
The roots need to be in the dirt, and the bottom of the
plant needs to be allllllmost setting on top of the soil...
When your
plant is happy, it will send out runners alllllllll on it's own... but remember
when the
plant is busy sending out runners, it really doesn't produce fruit...
And you really should make sure it establishes it's root's first before major fruit production.
Also, the dirt, what kind is it, clay, sandy,
organic??? They don't like to sit in wet.....
Nice tilled dirt and compost mixed in...
plant and cover the area next to the
plantwith something like newspaper and put a nice
layer on top of newspaper, and not toooooo close
to the base of the
plant, you don't want it to get too moist and invite more bugs..
And the compost and newpaper will moisten up, and that'll make a nice area for your runner's to run to and make a new
plant.
Weezie
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