On Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 9:33:34 AM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
Pavel314 wrote:
It looks like the major strawberry season is over. I went out this morning and only found four berries. However, that was just enough to give me nine pounds in the freezer; I'll thaw them in a few days to start a batch of strawberry Champagne.

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oh, forgot to ask how large an area(s) you are
using? i have about 250sq ft inside a fenced area
i've been using - half that space was just put in
last year and did very well this year. the other
half needs to be turned under and amended again
and then replanted. a todo item on the list that
is hard to get to this time of the season for me.

i have two other areas outside the fence which
can produce a lot some years, but this year wasn't
one of them. the deer discovered them during a
spell of heavy snows early in the season and since
then they've been regularly mowing them down. we
need to fix the fence out back which usually kept
the deer from having an easy path in. now that
they know the yummy plants are i suspect a fence
won't do much good (they'll go around). i'm not
ready to fence the whole yard...

wish there were wolves around.


songbird

The vegetable garden, tended by my wife, is about 50' by 30', 1,500 square feet.

The pumpkin patch, my responsibility, is adjacent to that and is 25' by 30', giving 750 square feet.

The strawberry patch, again mine and out by the vineyard, is the old asparagus bed and is 16' by 3' for 48 square feet. I planted 25 ever bearing and 20 June bearing last year, so this is our first strawberry crop. My wife moved the asparagus to a row in her vegetable garden a few years back so I thought I'd try strawberries to get some use out of it. Tried raspberries and blueberries but had no luck at all with either.

If the deer ever started bothering the garden, I'd sit out on the laundry room roof with the crossbow and harvest some venison.

Paul