I have had excellent luck with strawberries planted one year in large
pots and the second
year in the ground in beds. Actually the pots are better than the beds
for fruit since the pots
are easier to weed and to control. I may, one of these years do
strawberries totally in pots
and simply change out the soil in the pots every year. Strawberries
are just not tough enough
to compete with the grasses and weeds. I suppose strawberries came
from a woods environment as their native environment.

So I guess every year I am going to keep buying more of those huge
pots of plastic, until
they are too much to cope.

Also, through the years I have found that fresh lettuce in springtime
and radishes are best
grown in pots and when summer comes, then I plant them with more
strawberries.

Potatoes last year did excellent with alot of sun and alot of
watering. The thing I want to
do this year is plant them in perfect rows, so I know where they are,
whereas last year
the rows became indistinguishable.

This is the last year I am going to try watermelon. In the past they
are hard to control
as they get into the lawn. And by the time they ripen, the cool Autumn
has come. I would
like to see them in the middle of summer. Maybe that is too much of a
demand and if so,
the last attempt for watermelon.

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