On 6/7/2010 10:02 PM, Tony wrote:
Anyone have any thoughts about this... I have wild strawberries growing
everywhere. The fruit is tiny and maybe 1 in 10 wasn't bitter, but not
sweet either. Anyway just for the hell of it I started mowing around it
when it's flowering and bearing fruit. For some reason this year the
fruit is much larger and most of it tastes neutral and some of it is
actually a little sweet! So I've been letting it go in the gardens for
about a year and it seems like it will be a very nice ground cover. it
isn't taking over anything but open space. Well in the lawn it may be
taking over some grass, but I don't mind it... so far.

Anyone have any experience with this? I'd like to put it on steroids and
sick it on the Bermuda grass! As is I don't think it will crowd out the
Bermuda grass, but I can hope can't I?

Thoughts?


I'm tending to to this in areas where I have slopes and have been trying
to establish ivy. My problem is deer and while most people curse ivy as
evasive, it's not evasive here. There are native plants, some weeds,
that the deer do not eat and now I'm just letting them grow.