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strawberries are in my way
Hi all,
I was looking over the back yard garden in anticipation of starting my spring cleaning and planting and I noticed that the strawberries I put in last year survived the winter. They seem to have put out suckers and spread around the patch quite a bit and at the moment they are looking pretty good. MY MO for the garden the last couple years has been to go out in the early spring and widen the plot by a couple feet, turn all the soil over, dig up any weeds that have started, and mix in a bag of manure, or last year's compost, or something to amend the soil as it is primarily clay here and there's never been a garden in this yard before. Except this year I'd really like to keep the strawberries. Do you think it is a good idea to try transplanting them? Could I dig them up, do my thing with the garden and plant them back on the same day? How far down do strawberry roots go? I'm really afraid of killing them by digging up the garden for the rest of my planting, since my experience with gardening seems to run toward watching things die. I'm trying to figure out why the strawberries survived but the mint didn't. Dawn Missouri Zone 5b |
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