jj wrote:
On May 20, 10:16 pm, Charles wrote:
On 20 May 2007 18:00:28 -0700, jj wrote:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selec...trawberry.html

I would like to here more about water lilies and salvia planted in a
bed, that sounds strange to me.

The water lillies are in square holes lined with pond liner. Watering
spikes keep enough water in them. They do not bloom as well on the
east side as they do in the pond. Easter lillies and rain lillies are
in the same bed too. I put whatever I want that will grow in that
exposure, bell peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, etc. I planted salvia in
that bed just because it stays colorful so long. (It spreads like mint
and has to be cut back and pulled out every year.) Two magnolias and
an Oriental orchid provide a little morning shade too. I've been
experimenting in that spot for 30 yrs. this mo.

I grow strawberries in Utah. They do well here with eastern exposure
full sun and heavy PM shade, but they also do well in western exposure
partial sun. I cannot grow them in beds with anything else. They spread
and sprawl and are unfriendly to companion plantings that are not their
daughters.

I've never seen what you describe happening in your berry plants. You
say this is happening to new leaf growth from the crown, but that the
plants are still daughtering? Have berries come on yet?

How old are your plants, and for how long have they been in their
location? They may just be old and nonbearing at this point.