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Growing Strawberries
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A quick few qs on strawberry maintenance.. We are currently enjoying quality and full flavour strawbs from 9 Elsanta plants given to us last year. They are putting out runners with "baby plants" forming. Should these beginners be pegged into the ground in some way, or maybe sat in pots of compost? In terms of plant age, should the new starters be used to replace the existing plants, or as additions? Do the "parent" plants have a finite life? TIA Phil |
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Growing Strawberries
"TheScullster" wrote A quick few qs on strawberry maintenance.. We are currently enjoying quality and full flavour strawbs from 9 Elsanta plants given to us last year. They are putting out runners with "baby plants" forming. Should these beginners be pegged into the ground in some way, or maybe sat in pots of compost? Depends where you want them to grow, if they can be pegged and left to grow there so much thwe better but if you will want to move them then pots is a good idea. In terms of plant age, should the new starters be used to replace the existing plants, or as additions? Do the "parent" plants have a finite life? Yes they do, about 3 years max IME although I did know an Italian gardener who changed/renewed his strawberry bed every year, one years crop and out they went. You could use the new young plants to enlarge your strawberry bed for next year and take your existing plants out after cropping in 2010 replacing them with young plants then. It's always best to move the bed to another part of the garden to avoid disease after a few years anyway. Whilst on about strawberries, an elderly relly used to have a Tortoise for many decades and he had the run of her whole garden and loved English Strawberries (wouldn't ever touch foreign ones) which she bought for him. Needless to say not much grew except the roses with him trundling about like a tank. He was given away a couple of years ago as the Aunt became too elderly to look after him and now in her old garden the roses are underplanted with self seeded strawberry plants which produce superb fruit. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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Growing Strawberries
"Bob Hobden" wrote "TheScullster" wrote A quick few qs on strawberry maintenance.. We are currently enjoying quality and full flavour strawbs from 9 Elsanta plants given to us last year. They are putting out runners with "baby plants" forming. Should these beginners be pegged into the ground in some way, or maybe sat in pots of compost? Depends where you want them to grow, if they can be pegged and left to grow there so much thwe better but if you will want to move them then pots is a good idea. In terms of plant age, should the new starters be used to replace the existing plants, or as additions? Do the "parent" plants have a finite life? Yes they do, about 3 years max IME although I did know an Italian gardener who changed/renewed his strawberry bed every year, one years crop and out they went. You could use the new young plants to enlarge your strawberry bed for next year and take your existing plants out after cropping in 2010 replacing them with young plants then. It's always best to move the bed to another part of the garden to avoid disease after a few years anyway. Whilst on about strawberries, an elderly relly used to have a Tortoise for many decades and he had the run of her whole garden and loved English Strawberries (wouldn't ever touch foreign ones) which she bought for him. Needless to say not much grew except the roses with him trundling about like a tank. He was given away a couple of years ago as the Aunt became too elderly to look after him and now in her old garden the roses are underplanted with self seeded strawberry plants which produce superb fruit. Thanks for all that Bob - makes sense One thing I'm not clear on though is how strawberry fields (pick your own) stay in the same place year after year and do not succumb to disease etc. Are they sprayed or treated in some way? Phil |
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