When the hurricane of 1900 wiped out Galveston Island, Clara Barton, Red
Cross came down from the east coast and saw the devastation of an
agrarian economy, said they needed a "cash crop" and they planted
strawberries. That why Pasadena, TX is "Strawberry Capital of the
World". Even amid the refineries. A little trivia for ya.

J

Matt Post wrote:
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Is it ok to put mulch on a strawberry patch and leave it on year round,=
or
do you have to take off the mulch in the summer?

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