On 6/8/2010 3:04 PM, Jeff Thies wrote:
Frank wrote:
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.


I don't see ivy and wild strawberries having the same light requirement.
Where my wild strawberries are, the english ivy would die back from too
much sun. Ivy needs more shade. Managing wild strawberries isn't hard
and it may be a good ground cover, it grows well in rocky and poor
terrain. I'm neutral at the moment.

Jeff

There are native plants, some weeds,
that the deer do not eat and now I'm just letting them grow.

Not all wild strawberry and ivy but they are both in picture I just took:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/ivy.jpg

Still early in year and I suspect ivy will take over. This area is
close to house and not visited as often by the deer.

I was thinking of this area below house where some fine bladed weed has
taken over where I had been trying to establish ivy:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/bank.jpg

It looks decent and is in back of house that nobody sees.