@@mishkahappy3839 lol no vegans absolutely do not condone eating bugs, and I remember a really strict vegan getting really mad at me because I suggested mosquitos serve no purpose and deserve to die.
I make sure to put out crushed lobster claws. Slime of clam. Horse fly poop that I harvested in my own farm and toe nails from my kids. All so the strawberries can grow in the dirt that has everything they already need to grow.
Im from coastal oregon, there are strawberry plants that grow sparsely on the dunes at the beach. Not sure if they're natives, or transplants from the terraforming project, but they must enjoy all the broken down crab bits, washed up kelp, fish funk! 🤯 Never thought of what they may be "eating" there
There are many strawberry plants that are hybrid and not able to be grown from seed, but are runners from a parent plant. These Evie 2s are one of those kind. Starting from seed can also mean the fruit will be smaller, from what I’ve read.
I give myself a little laugh when I see people using these bins. We use them too, but our bins all started as removed, partially rusted, roofing panels that were FREE and would have gone to the dump. We live on Hawaii Island and the 'ground' under our feet is all lava rock. First, we fill the big bins with garden waste like tree trunks, branches, palm fronds, all kinds of yard waste both like weeds and kitchen waste, grass clippings, coffee grounds, plus any remainder from black soldier fly bins. Let the bin start to compost down and refill to heaping. Only a small amount of compost is used on the top layer to plant in. Our used metal bins are nearing 10 years.
I heard you can put red painted stones among the strawberry plants well before you have fruit so curious birds learn that the red things here are not tasty.
you can also have a healthy younger outdoor cat that you dont overfeed so they are incentivized to grab critters more often than sit in front of a food bowl.
Better yet... Find a friend who has strawberries and ask them if you can take pups. Strawberries love to put out plantlets and they WILL prove true. Also... If you have a strawberry plantation nearby they will often sell plantlets for pennies.
@@raerohan4241 If you know what a "cheese jam" is.... Then, yes! A cheese jam is a jam that is made to go with cheese. It is more tart and often is made from different ingredients than you would normally use. Cranberries are a good one, not your average jam!
I used to work at a strawberry nursery and fruit grower! In the summer, I'd pick strawberries (outside on my knees blazing sun or pouring rain! Weather wasn't the worst part. It was the wasps that crawled INSIDE the strawberries xD) And during the autumn, we'd harvest pups and grow them in nursery pots until they were big enough to trim and cool. I once asked if I could take a few for my garden and I got a bundle of 10 everbearing plants of a great variety with high resistance to pests and big sweet berries! I planted them and enjoyed strawberries every summer since! Every other year, I take the pups, grow them up indoors and plant them out in spring. They're still offspring from the ones I got from my job! I worked there as a teenager and I'm turning 32 next month 😊 it's one of the best gifts I've ever had!
thats cool. might be a good idea to grow some from the berries here and there to get the genes remixed. dont want one disease or something to wipe em all out because theyre all clones.
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Something people should be aware of: June-bearing plants tend to put out a large number of berries at one time that are average to large in size. Ever-bearing plants will produce average to smaller berries over a longer period of time. Flavor isn’t affected usually, but if you want big berries, opt for a June-bearing. If you want berries throughout the late spring through late summer or even early fall in some regions, opt for the Ever-bearing. ☺️
@@IjeomaThePlantMama I’m planting new plants this year and have purchased a bunch of each. This will give me berries throughout the season, but a larger crop early of larger berries to kick off the season. ☺️
@@Thi-Nguyen hmm...do you think if I bought and planted some June bearing plants this week, they'd get established enough to produce fruit this year? I have multiple Everbearing plants that are on their 2nd year in the Northeast
@@IjeomaThePlantMama not likely. They’d be more focused on producing roots and shoots (daughter plants). But you could always try. 🤷♀️ Best of luck whichever road you take! I grew strawberries for a good number of years before I retired from migraines. That was five years ago. I’m just now at a point where I feel up to starting up my gardens again so I’ll be planting a lot of things for next year.
Pro tip, pluck all buds before they become strawberries so they plant develops its roots more the first-year your second and third-year strawberries will be much larger and juicier
I bought a strawberry hanging pot for less than $20 at Lowe’s last fall. There were loads of suckers on it. I cut off all the suckers and planted them - some directly in beds and some in pots. About 20+ survived and grew into strawberry plants and I still have the hanging pot with all the mother plants in it.
The only thing anyone needs to know about growing strawberries is give them acidic soil if you want huge amazing berries and give them rich soil if all you want is greens and little tiny berries
What this world needs is a strawberry as sweet as they used to be when I was a kid. I thought lately, they were just picking too early. But no, news articles have stated that the overall quality and taste of what we grow has been tested and found to be less delicious than before. That's right. We're losing our sweetness in fruits like strawberries and getting higher sugar levels in veggies like Fructose. 😢😢😢😢. We err. Grow your strawberries, young man. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is one of the many perils of buying plants from a giant retail store that doesn't even own its products. They have no incentive to keep things alive and sell them. Just bizarre.
My family has a strawberry field and when it's season we can barely save ourselves from drowning in them. It's crazy how much these guys can produce. And how delicious they are.
My mom planted these in her front yard a few years ago, she puts hay over them in the winter, and then in the spring they grow back bigger, they are a beautiful low maintenance ground cover! I thought she was crazy to do it but she showed me! Lol ( She bought this "patio home" so it only has a small front yard that's a steep hill and no backyard just a patio, so she used her front yard as much as she could. When she bought it it was just dead grass and that's it, now it's got a huge strawberry patch, a big blueberry bush and a raspberry bush, and a peach tree that again I thought she was crazy and it would never bloom cause this is Colorado, but in only 3 yrs that tree gave her more peaches than we could give away last year,( and they were the best peaches I've ever had!) So her front yard is now this beautiful incredibly aesthetic many fruit producing garden paradise! She's selling this year for three times what she paid 8 yrs ago and the real estate agent said it's because of what she did to they yard that they're able to ask so much!!)
It’s weird to think about growing strawberries in June. Here in Florida it’s February grown through the winter because of how hot it is and how they die over summer
@@nataliramirez6497 strawberries are one of the faster of produce actually. Taking as little as 60 days to go from seed to harvest. It's pretty much a staple for impatient growers like myself lol
I pick them out off the ground, shorten their roots and put them right into the place where I want them with little water in hole. After all is planted I just water them one more time. Works every time like a charm and they grow like weeds after.
I just bought two individual plants today! And I bought a ten pack of bare root a couple days ago. All while I'm waiting on two 25 packs of bare roots to come in the mail. I kept getting impatient wanting to see some strawberry plants grow. Apparently mine didn't make it with us in the cross country move. I thought I took my potted ones with me. My raspberries didn't make it either. All my potted blueberries did though!
I find raspberries are way too easy to grow :P I bought one cane around 8 years ago (I was a teen) and if I don't prune it each year it'll take up a quarter of my parent's yard! If you live in southern Ontario I could cut you a few canes :P
@@marzipanmango so as of today I have 60 strawberry plants in raised beds and a few in big pots, a raised bed with six raspberries and two blackberries, five honeyberries in ground, one gooseberry in a 15g pot, and four blueberries in 15g pots, and two currants going into pots in the next couple days. Then I have a few veggies here and there with more to come, and some melons and pumpkins later on. Some flowers going to. We just bought a new house on an acre and a half and I'm going town putting in a garden! Had a pretty bountiful garden at the apartment we just moved from, so I'm hoping to do it on a bigger scale and sell at farmers markets and stuff.
@MoMo Star Wow that's awesome, I hope you have a great harvest this year! I live in a tiny apartment but my parents let me garden on their property- generally just raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes and peppers :)
If you throw quarter a cup of Seasol in that bucket, your plats have about five times as much chance of surviving with minimal root shock. If you don’t have Seasol, then move to Australia. Alternatively, any other seaweed water additive will do about as good.
This year has been wet and at times cool for us. Which is great because we're in Texas and my family lives in sand. Our main troubles have been pests in the form of several insects and deer. We have most of our garden raised beds behind netting to keep the deer from eating what's in them. We've had so many plants survive that I've been scrambling to find pots and soil to grow things in. With the rain out water bill has gone down and the sand helps keep the drainage problem to be nonexistent.
June bearing are the ones that produce runners so you can get lots of strawberry plants from one plant, but ever bearing do not have runners so you get one plant you only get one plant.
Keep an eye out in local plant circles in fall and early winter. There's often people selling bundles of 20, 40, sometimes 100 bare root strawberries for only a few dollars. I know because I'm one of those sellers.
compost your veggie and grain scraps and mix it with the straw and carbon like coconut coir, but the straw helps enough. you won't have to get soil, just the straw. Compost when you can. Adds lots of nutrients and it is cheap.
carbon? like elemental carbon? im sure you mean “carbon” as a nickname for something else but i feel thats too broad of a term if youre trying to educate someone less learned than you otherwise youre preaching terminology to the choir.
2:yrs ago I bought bare dried roots. They grew indoors but when I went to harden then off they died and never came back and weather was 70 in sun and 50 at night. Last yr I bought potted plants to put them in clump and I had strawberries. This plant over wintered outdoors and has flowers on it right now.I live in northern Indiana.
A few varieties don't throw runners. Some if my day neutral berries grow in big clusters and u have to go in about every 3 years and split them. Discarding some of the woody scraggly ones and planting out the the younger healthier ones. These are smaller very sweet berries. I do think they are more of an alpine type than the ones that have runners. Just in case someone ends up with them and they don't act normal. I have wild ones that are taking over half my back yard lol. Very fragrent tiny fruits that are incredibly tasty critters if you can get more than a cup full lol ❤
Strawberries are like weeds, my current strawberry patch all came from one plant over 60 years ago. They will grow anywhere (within reason). they basically need no care.
My wife bought 2 plants in a pot this spring gone, by the end of autumn we had 32 plants just from the runners alone. I used aluminum wire stakes to hold the runners down lightly and they rooted so strong so fast.
From what I've read there are 2 kinds of everbearing.. ones that produce a batch in June and another batch in Fall, that's the most common. Then there's Day Neutral varieties which truly produce all through summer, fewer berries at a time
Yes, good catch. The ones I'm planting, Evie-II, are considered day neutral. Once we've had for a couple years, seascape, are also day neutrals. It's great getting them throughout the whole season!
@@the_garden_is_growing It really is! I have Seascapes as well, and was picking them into December - in zone 5 in Canada!! It was wild. I like that schedule better than loads all at once but I can see the value in that too for jams and preserves
Growing up we had both types. The June bearing was used primarily for jams/jellies and the Ever bearing were used for fresh (mostly) or strawberry shortcake! Good memories!
Interesting, I have zero animal inputs in my strawberry garden. It comes back every year on its own. And it's been doing this for several years since I originally planted it. And I've added zero animal inputs.
Every single time I bought strawberries bare root they came straight dead looking! I came to think that's just how they should look. (I know, that sounds dumb) I genuinely thought the problem was my soil or just whatever I was doing... Here it's cause they should look like this!!! Ugh!
The strawberry bare roots I bought at Home Depot looked so dead. I too wasn't sure if they were fine or not! I am going to take them back and order the ones you are referring to.
every. single. time. i've bought "bare root" strawberries, they were just dead twigs. I am convinced it is a scam. I could make a lot of money just bundling a bunch of twigs and telling people they are bare root strawberries. I'd love to find somethng like this guy is showing where you can see the thing is actually alive before buying it.
@@Metqa I totally agree. I got some starts from Home Depot and there was zero green anywhere. I couldn't separate them easily like they did here and none of them grew into anything. Very frustrating.
Bloodmeal???? OMG... You're worshipping the Lord of Blood. He has stolen Miquella. That man Mogh is the Lord of Blood. You can't used blood without his sayso
‼️‼️‼️ Can anyone PLEASE help!!!?? I’m so frustrated. This is like the 3rd time I’ve ordered dormant strawberry plants and failed. Since it’s still cold in NY, I planted them indoors in a pot, in a seed starting mix blend, just to bring them out of dormancy. They’re ALL dying! Turning brown, uuughhhh!!! I’m so discouraged from spending money and failing. What in the world am I doing wrong?? 😭😭
Seed starting mix I have found is usually devoid of nutrients as it is just a loomy medium for baby roots to be able to push through. I would use a good potting or raised bed mix if you must plant inside first.
I bought June and Ever bearing strawberry plants at Walmart. I waisted my money. I ended up buying from Amazon. They arrived, ready to go! Walmart should be ashamed for selling me dried out plants
Idunno man, I bought a single strawberry plant for €1 a couple years back, dropped it in the ground in the backyard with zero prep, and now an area 5x the size of that bed is just covered in strawberry plants. I live in Western Europe and our country doesn't get much sun. Strawberries grow like weeds, if you can't grows strawberries you can't grow anything lol
My dad bought Cambridge Favourite and planted them , an ever bearing variety that keeps fruiting untill frost takes the flowers. I remember picking strawberries with ice on.
Greenhouse wholesaler here (your stores buy their plants from us ❤) You can also look for "Jumbo" packs, not as dense but still more plants per pack/pot, getting more for your money 💰🎉
Awesome video! Also if anyone’s interested look up sister branches. Your strawberries can make a lot more strawberries from the sister branches rooting and becoming their own plant.
Pro Tip: spread the mulch before planting. Make your holes into the mulch and soil, plant directly. Save a step, as spreading the mulch over a clean bed takes very little time comparatively
If you're looking for an affordable way to fertilize new plants try sardines I was broke and planting a garden. Years before I had used a smelly fish fertilizer that produced abundance. I had heard this trick and I had 2 cans of sardines in the pantry for ever! I just plopped a fish in each hole with the transplant. It worked out very well. Great results. (They were packed in brine not oil).
Why do you plant strawberrys every year. If you keep the bed covered over all year with straw you will find they will grow every year. My bed is on the 5th year now each year the strawberry be bigger and giving you bigger crop and will sprout more and more and more and fill your bed out fully. I use fruit and veg feed once a week during blooming season.
Only put straw in when the flowers faded and the fruits start to form. When put in too soon the straw will insulate the plants from the ground, which can favor frost or sunburn. Also, when moist, the straw can grow funghi and rot.
considering strawberries are a form of spider wort... All you got to do is just snatch off a clipping where it's note is and plant that sucker like a half inch in the ground
Love my strawberry patch! I live in zone 4 and was thrilled to learn that my strawberries can survive the winter! We just make sure there is enough leaf litter covering the patch in the fall and every spring we blow them off.
I've purchased strawberry roots 2 yrs in a row and never succeed with any harvest, actually the root produced nothing....very disappointing. I soaked the roots, planted in a healthy soil in April and nothing. Help please
@ Yolanda, I wished you lived near me so U could ask you for some pups. I bought some from a nursery here in Georgia and planted them per instructions from the nursery...naught came of them😫!
im no expert but i agree in theory, im thinking a good reason to soak them would be to loosen up compacted roots rather than “rehydration” because yea im sure sitting in very moist soil would be just like sitting in the water anyway right?
@SobeCrunkMonster hydrating the roots is really only necessary if your doing a lot of plants and are going to take longer to get them into the soil. Like if your transplanting hundreds of plants you want to make sure the roots don't dry out that's all. It doesn't make the plant grow faster or anything just reduces some stress from transplanting.
I just realized not even plants are vegan, they're out here eating shellfish and blood
Finally! Someone else understands!!! LOL Bury Me Raw, so the earth can eat me! The Circle of Life and wut not.
Well, don't both embrace the bug eating? 😂
The worms inhabiting the deep sea vents are totally independent of the sunlight dependent ecosystem since they depend on hydrogen sulfide and gases.
@@mishkahappy3839 lol no vegans absolutely do not condone eating bugs, and I remember a really strict vegan getting really mad at me because I suggested mosquitos serve no purpose and deserve to die.
@@saxumbonum timon and pumba about to get cancelled
I'm gonna get some of these for my tower garden.
I make sure to put out crushed lobster claws. Slime of clam. Horse fly poop that I harvested in my own farm and toe nails from my kids. All so the strawberries can grow in the dirt that has everything they already need to grow.
Im from coastal oregon, there are strawberry plants that grow sparsely on the dunes at the beach. Not sure if they're natives, or transplants from the terraforming project, but they must enjoy all the broken down crab bits, washed up kelp, fish funk! 🤯 Never thought of what they may be "eating" there
Question: would it not be easier to just plant strawberry seeds and not go through the additional steps and paying the markup here?
There are many strawberry plants that are hybrid and not able to be grown from seed, but are runners from a parent plant. These Evie 2s are one of those kind. Starting from seed can also mean the fruit will be smaller, from what I’ve read.
@@the_garden_is_growing Goootcha! That's awesome -- thank you for helping my brain grow!!! :)
the outside of a strawberry 🍓 has all the seeds... simply plant them😂
What does the mulch do?
I give myself a little laugh when I see people using these bins. We use them too, but our bins all started as removed, partially rusted, roofing panels that were FREE and would have gone to the dump. We live on Hawaii Island and the 'ground' under our feet is all lava rock. First, we fill the big bins with garden waste like tree trunks, branches, palm fronds, all kinds of yard waste both like weeds and kitchen waste, grass clippings, coffee grounds, plus any remainder from black soldier fly bins. Let the bin start to compost down and refill to heaping. Only a small amount of compost is used on the top layer to plant in. Our used metal bins are nearing 10 years.
Three main kinds, not two. You forgot day neutral.
I heard you can put red painted stones among the strawberry plants well before you have fruit so curious birds learn that the red things here are not tasty.
very cool idea!
I'm so trying this
That’s pretty brilliant
you can also have a healthy younger outdoor cat that you dont overfeed so they are incentivized to grab critters more often than sit in front of a food bowl.
@@SobeCrunkMonster I have 7 of those and I confirm it works
You should plant two different varieties in the same vicinity. You'll most likely get higher yields and have healthier plants with cross pollination.
I literally just planted two different types together and I'm glad that is a good idea 😅 I have 3 different types now so hopefully they all play nice.
I only have one variety. My patch is about 6x6 and are yields are insanely high.
I ordered 25 Seascape & 25 Albion. I hope they’re a good combination
Better yet... Find a friend who has strawberries and ask them if you can take pups.
Strawberries love to put out plantlets and they WILL prove true.
Also... If you have a strawberry plantation nearby they will often sell plantlets for pennies.
My husband bought one strawberry plant who has SO MANY runners. I plant them all and now I have at least 8 of them🤗
I got 6 wild strawberried two springs ago. Got more than a thousand now, with last seasion bearing 0.5kg of fruit.
@@zvonimiraugustinjutrisa774 I'm not a fan of wild strawberries.... A bit too tart for me.
@@Kalamain Probably makes some really nice jam though
@@raerohan4241 If you know what a "cheese jam" is.... Then, yes!
A cheese jam is a jam that is made to go with cheese.
It is more tart and often is made from different ingredients than you would normally use.
Cranberries are a good one, not your average jam!
I used to work at a strawberry nursery and fruit grower! In the summer, I'd pick strawberries (outside on my knees blazing sun or pouring rain! Weather wasn't the worst part. It was the wasps that crawled INSIDE the strawberries xD)
And during the autumn, we'd harvest pups and grow them in nursery pots until they were big enough to trim and cool.
I once asked if I could take a few for my garden and I got a bundle of 10 everbearing plants of a great variety with high resistance to pests and big sweet berries! I planted them and enjoyed strawberries every summer since! Every other year, I take the pups, grow them up indoors and plant them out in spring. They're still offspring from the ones I got from my job! I worked there as a teenager and I'm turning 32 next month 😊 it's one of the best gifts I've ever had!
That's awesome to hear you've been able to enjoy your strawberries for so long! Thanks for sharing this part of your life ❤
thats cool. might be a good idea to grow some from the berries here and there to get the genes remixed. dont want one disease or something to wipe em all out because theyre all clones.
@@billyd7628 oh yeah! I didn't think about that! Thanks for the tip! I may add a second variant too, just in case 😊
Awesome!
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Something people should be aware of: June-bearing plants tend to put out a large number of berries at one time that are average to large in size. Ever-bearing plants will produce average to smaller berries over a longer period of time. Flavor isn’t affected usually, but if you want big berries, opt for a June-bearing. If you want berries throughout the late spring through late summer or even early fall in some regions, opt for the Ever-bearing. ☺️
Ugh, i wish id gotten june bearing. I like big fat berries!
@@IjeomaThePlantMama I’m planting new plants this year and have purchased a bunch of each. This will give me berries throughout the season, but a larger crop early of larger berries to kick off the season. ☺️
@@Thi-Nguyen hmm...do you think if I bought and planted some June bearing plants this week, they'd get established enough to produce fruit this year? I have multiple Everbearing plants that are on their 2nd year in the Northeast
@@IjeomaThePlantMama not likely. They’d be more focused on producing roots and shoots (daughter plants). But you could always try. 🤷♀️ Best of luck whichever road you take! I grew strawberries for a good number of years before I retired from migraines. That was five years ago. I’m just now at a point where I feel up to starting up my gardens again so I’ll be planting a lot of things for next year.
Yup, thats what the video explains 🤷♂️
❤"I hope you can spend some time in your garden today!" Best thing anyone could ever say to me!
I wish I had a garden 😭
I actually worked on my little garden today
Pro tip, pluck all buds before they become strawberries so they plant develops its roots more the first-year your second and third-year strawberries will be much larger and juicier
I think the vid was more focused on 1 seasons/year’s worth of growth. Agree 100% if growing them as perennials
This is true for June Bearing however Ever Bearing it isn't necessary. Pro tip, start both your first year
I bought a strawberry hanging pot for less than $20 at Lowe’s last fall. There were loads of suckers on it. I cut off all the suckers and planted them - some directly in beds and some in pots. About 20+ survived and grew into strawberry plants and I still have the hanging pot with all the mother plants in it.
Put the runners in nursery pots with soil until they start rooting before snipping them from the mother and you will have more like 80-90% success
@@geirkselim2697 thats actually genius
@@geirkselim2697can you clarify this instruction please
Once you have enough plants, you'll want to prune back the runners in order to produce more berries. Otherwise the plant is wasting energy.
@@geirkselim2697 great suggestion. You can pin runners to the ground and bury sections of stem to get a large plant base.
Would love to spend some time in my garden today…only problem is it’s covered in 3 feet of snow ☹️Spring has not sprung in Alaska yet.
Yeah, that may make it difficult... nows a great time to plan!
We had July for a minute in Illinois a week ago. Now back to frost at night.
Wow!
This is exactly why I turned my basement into an indoor garden. Winter will never stop me again. 😂😂
I got two hanging basket plant from lowes that was on the clearance rack & salvaged it. It kept me with tons of berries all summer & fall.
Would love to try this in the pots ❤
@@mollielambert9501 that would be awesome if you did!! It definitely can work out.
I never knew this, but the reason we call them Strawberries is BECAUSE of the straw we lay underneath them as mulch
Why do we use straw mulch?
@@yourbro7781If not, the berries touch the soil and get eaten by bugs, or get wet by watering and spoil.
The only thing anyone needs to know about growing strawberries is give them acidic soil if you want huge amazing berries and give them rich soil if all you want is greens and little tiny berries
That is the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say, I hope you can spend time in your garden today. Man that’s awesome,
What this world needs is a strawberry as sweet as they used to be when I was a kid. I thought lately, they were just picking too early. But no, news articles have stated that the overall quality and taste of what we grow has been tested and found to be less delicious than before. That's right. We're losing our sweetness in fruits like strawberries and getting higher sugar levels in veggies like Fructose. 😢😢😢😢. We err.
Grow your strawberries, young man. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I bought a pack at Home Depot, not a single live root was in the pack
This is one of the many perils of buying plants from a giant retail store that doesn't even own its products. They have no incentive to keep things alive and sell them. Just bizarre.
My family has a strawberry field and when it's season we can barely save ourselves from drowning in them. It's crazy how much these guys can produce. And how delicious they are.
Hi ow do they protect them from birds, pests, etc? Won’t the birds eat them?
@@Navajosun I have strawberries and blueberries in my little garden.They are protected with spacial cage/netting.
My mom planted these in her front yard a few years ago, she puts hay over them in the winter, and then in the spring they grow back bigger, they are a beautiful low maintenance ground cover! I thought she was crazy to do it but she showed me! Lol
( She bought this "patio home" so it only has a small front yard that's a steep hill and no backyard just a patio, so she used her front yard as much as she could. When she bought it it was just dead grass and that's it, now it's got a huge strawberry patch, a big blueberry bush and a raspberry bush, and a peach tree that again I thought she was crazy and it would never bloom cause this is Colorado, but in only 3 yrs that tree gave her more peaches than we could give away last year,( and they were the best peaches I've ever had!) So her front yard is now this beautiful incredibly aesthetic many fruit producing garden paradise! She's selling this year for three times what she paid 8 yrs ago and the real estate agent said it's because of what she did to they yard that they're able to ask so much!!)
It’s weird to think about growing strawberries in June. Here in Florida it’s February grown through the winter because of how hot it is and how they die over summer
But you can also grow that many strawberry plants from a single strawberry
You can?!
@@Stephaniemickle absolutely 😁. If you find a batch with good flavor, you can keep a strawberry, and each seed will grow into it's own plant.
@@crustyflatonion9595 Also, if you let the runners grow they will establish an entire nother plant.
It'll take FOREVER though but if thats your prerogative then surely yes!!
@@nataliramirez6497 strawberries are one of the faster of produce actually. Taking as little as 60 days to go from seed to harvest. It's pretty much a staple for impatient growers like myself lol
I pick them out off the ground, shorten their roots and put them right into the place where I want them with little water in hole. After all is planted I just water them one more time. Works every time like a charm and they grow like weeds after.
In Missouri I grew 8 varieties of strawberry. I collected seed and grew them easy. As you know, the seed is on the outside.
I literally just bought some ever bearing strawberry plants to grow hydroponically
It's snowing right now in Alberta.Its also 420.Its indoor gardening for me today!!!
Wasnt snowing in edmonton today!
Yeah I did it wrong. Explains why all my strawberries died
I just bought two individual plants today! And I bought a ten pack of bare root a couple days ago. All while I'm waiting on two 25 packs of bare roots to come in the mail. I kept getting impatient wanting to see some strawberry plants grow. Apparently mine didn't make it with us in the cross country move. I thought I took my potted ones with me.
My raspberries didn't make it either. All my potted blueberries did though!
I find raspberries are way too easy to grow :P I bought one cane around 8 years ago (I was a teen) and if I don't prune it each year it'll take up a quarter of my parent's yard! If you live in southern Ontario I could cut you a few canes :P
@@marzipanmango so as of today I have 60 strawberry plants in raised beds and a few in big pots, a raised bed with six raspberries and two blackberries, five honeyberries in ground, one gooseberry in a 15g pot, and four blueberries in 15g pots, and two currants going into pots in the next couple days. Then I have a few veggies here and there with more to come, and some melons and pumpkins later on. Some flowers going to.
We just bought a new house on an acre and a half and I'm going town putting in a garden! Had a pretty bountiful garden at the apartment we just moved from, so I'm hoping to do it on a bigger scale and sell at farmers markets and stuff.
@MoMo Star Wow that's awesome, I hope you have a great harvest this year! I live in a tiny apartment but my parents let me garden on their property- generally just raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes and peppers :)
Mulch of any kind is really a protective layer for moisture and feeds nutrients to the young plants. Increased success rate!
If you throw quarter a cup of Seasol in that bucket, your plats have about five times as much chance of surviving with minimal root shock. If you don’t have Seasol, then move to Australia. Alternatively, any other seaweed water additive will do about as good.
This year has been wet and at times cool for us.
Which is great because we're in Texas and my family lives in sand. Our main troubles have been pests in the form of several insects and deer. We have most of our garden raised beds behind netting to keep the deer from eating what's in them. We've had so many plants survive that I've been scrambling to find pots and soil to grow things in.
With the rain out water bill has gone down and the sand helps keep the drainage problem to be nonexistent.
I paid $5 for a strawberry a plant at Home Depot. Then I got 20 bare root balls for $15 on amazon and they’re doing great
I bought mine at the nursery here for $7.99 for 20 bare roots 😊👩🌾👍but when I separated it was 25 bare roots ♥️♥️♥️
Excellent!
What the name of the nursery?
I've only bought strawberries once about 5 years ago. The pups never stop popping up!
June bearing are the ones that produce runners so you can get lots of strawberry plants from one plant, but ever bearing do not have runners so you get one plant you only get one plant.
Great advice! Last summer rabbits managed to enter our orchard and ate all of our strawberries. Greetings from Spain! 💕🌷
I hear tulle fabric and stakes can keep critters out of a strawberry patch.
Keep an eye out in local plant circles in fall and early winter. There's often people selling bundles of 20, 40, sometimes 100 bare root strawberries for only a few dollars. I know because I'm one of those sellers.
Please sell yhem to me for next year
compost your veggie and grain scraps and mix it with the straw and carbon like coconut coir, but the straw helps enough. you won't have to get soil, just the straw. Compost when you can. Adds lots of nutrients and it is cheap.
carbon? like elemental carbon? im sure you mean “carbon” as a nickname for something else but i feel thats too broad of a term if youre trying to educate someone less learned than you otherwise youre preaching terminology to the choir.
@@SobeCrunkMonster i literally put an example. People have google. It is not hard.
2:yrs ago I bought bare dried roots. They grew indoors but when I went to harden then off they died and never came back and weather was 70 in sun and 50 at night.
Last yr I bought potted plants to put them in clump and I had strawberries. This plant over wintered outdoors and has flowers on it right now.I live in northern Indiana.
A few varieties don't throw runners. Some if my day neutral berries grow in big clusters and u have to go in about every 3 years and split them. Discarding some of the woody scraggly ones and planting out the the younger healthier ones. These are smaller very sweet berries. I do think they are more of an alpine type than the ones that have runners.
Just in case someone ends up with them and they don't act normal.
I have wild ones that are taking over half my back yard lol. Very fragrent tiny fruits that are incredibly tasty critters if you can get more than a cup full lol ❤
Strawberries are like weeds, my current strawberry patch all came from one plant over 60 years ago. They will grow anywhere (within reason). they basically need no care.
Bro I can’t even keep an air plant alive let alone a whole garden💀
Keep trying. It's very rewarding when you succeed. The joy has replaced alcohol and other stuff in my life. Plus I have a nice tan 😜
Try succulents. They’re very forgiving. You can forget to water them for months at a time. 😅
@@Drualeaf yea once in the summer i did water my succulents when it got like 120 degrees and its still going strong
Bro, your strawberry bed is gonna be insane in a year!!! Nice. Those things went crazy in my mom’s raised bed and they are massive!
*”dang, I forgot the mulch” 🍓 - MELL DUNEY 616*
As an arborist we never soak or clean off roots as long as we can, it'll set back the soil ecology of that specific root system.
My wife bought 2 plants in a pot this spring gone, by the end of autumn we had 32 plants just from the runners alone.
I used aluminum wire stakes to hold the runners down lightly and they rooted so strong so fast.
From what I've read there are 2 kinds of everbearing.. ones that produce a batch in June and another batch in Fall, that's the most common. Then there's Day Neutral varieties which truly produce all through summer, fewer berries at a time
Yes, good catch. The ones I'm planting, Evie-II, are considered day neutral. Once we've had for a couple years, seascape, are also day neutrals. It's great getting them throughout the whole season!
@@the_garden_is_growing It really is! I have Seascapes as well, and was picking them into December - in zone 5 in Canada!! It was wild. I like that schedule better than loads all at once but I can see the value in that too for jams and preserves
Growing up we had both types. The June bearing was used primarily for jams/jellies and the Ever bearing were used for fresh (mostly) or strawberry shortcake! Good memories!
Interesting, I have zero animal inputs in my strawberry garden. It comes back every year on its own. And it's been doing this for several years since I originally planted it. And I've added zero animal inputs.
I usually soak them for a week rather than a few hours until the roots start to grow
There is actually 3 categories. June bearing, overbearing and day neutral.
Every single time I bought strawberries bare root they came straight dead looking! I came to think that's just how they should look. (I know, that sounds dumb) I genuinely thought the problem was my soil or just whatever I was doing... Here it's cause they should look like this!!! Ugh!
The strawberry bare roots I bought at Home Depot looked so dead. I too wasn't sure if they were fine or not! I am going to take them back and order the ones you are referring to.
every. single. time. i've bought "bare root" strawberries, they were just dead twigs. I am convinced it is a scam. I could make a lot of money just bundling a bunch of twigs and telling people they are bare root strawberries. I'd love to find somethng like this guy is showing where you can see the thing is actually alive before buying it.
@@Metqa I totally agree. I got some starts from Home Depot and there was zero green anywhere. I couldn't separate them easily like they did here and none of them grew into anything. Very frustrating.
The dirty finger snap had me life: 😱 💀 🪦
Gotta love the snap! Would have been a long video if you showed all of it
Bloodmeal???? OMG... You're worshipping the Lord of Blood. He has stolen Miquella. That man Mogh is the Lord of Blood. You can't used blood without his sayso
‼️‼️‼️ Can anyone PLEASE help!!!?? I’m so frustrated. This is like the 3rd time I’ve ordered dormant strawberry plants and failed. Since it’s still cold in NY, I planted them indoors in a pot, in a seed starting mix blend, just to bring them out of dormancy. They’re ALL dying! Turning brown, uuughhhh!!! I’m so discouraged from spending money and failing. What in the world am I doing wrong?? 😭😭
Seed starting mix I have found is usually devoid of nutrients as it is just a loomy medium for baby roots to be able to push through. I would use a good potting or raised bed mix if you must plant inside first.
@@katrinaburlingame-mathias325 you’re so right! Ugh, I should’ve thought of this. Thank you so much! You are very kind.
soak the roots in water when you get them out of the package for like 45 min, then plant them
I bought June and Ever bearing strawberry plants at Walmart. I waisted my money. I ended up buying from Amazon. They arrived, ready to go! Walmart should be ashamed for selling me dried out plants
I may have forgot to soak mine 😅 they are growing brilliantly anyway, but deffo would have helped them have a good start
Mine all died.
Idunno man, I bought a single strawberry plant for €1 a couple years back, dropped it in the ground in the backyard with zero prep, and now an area 5x the size of that bed is just covered in strawberry plants. I live in Western Europe and our country doesn't get much sun.
Strawberries grow like weeds, if you can't grows strawberries you can't grow anything lol
I love the snap with the dirt poof! Too cute 😂
My dad bought Cambridge Favourite and planted them , an ever bearing variety that keeps fruiting untill frost takes the flowers. I remember picking strawberries with ice on.
They’re never this green
They left dormancy while waiting for me to buy them at the local garden center. You are correct, most of the time they have little to know green.
Greenhouse wholesaler here (your stores buy their plants from us ❤)
You can also look for "Jumbo" packs, not as dense but still more plants per pack/pot, getting more for your money 💰🎉
Awesome video! Also if anyone’s interested look up sister branches. Your strawberries can make a lot more strawberries from the sister branches rooting and becoming their own plant.
Pro Tip: spread the mulch before planting. Make your holes into the mulch and soil, plant directly. Save a step, as spreading the mulch over a clean bed takes very little time comparatively
If you're looking for an affordable way to fertilize new plants try sardines
I was broke and planting a garden. Years before I had used a smelly fish fertilizer that produced abundance. I had heard this trick and I had 2 cans of sardines in the pantry for ever! I just plopped a fish in each hole with the transplant. It worked out very well. Great results. (They were packed in brine not oil).
Thank you for a good tip!!!❤❤❤
Your welcome!
If they are native to your area try growing a wild patch of dewberries and give native plants some love 🫶
Why do you plant strawberrys every year. If you keep the bed covered over all year with straw you will find they will grow every year. My bed is on the 5th year now each year the strawberry be bigger and giving you bigger crop and will sprout more and more and more and fill your bed out fully.
I use fruit and veg feed once a week during blooming season.
Only put straw in when the flowers faded and the fruits start to form. When put in too soon the straw will insulate the plants from the ground, which can favor frost or sunburn. Also, when moist, the straw can grow funghi and rot.
considering strawberries are a form of spider wort... All you got to do is just snatch off a clipping where it's note is and plant that sucker like a half inch in the ground
Get barn cats or your crops WILL be decimated by varmints especially chipmunks
You dont gotta do any of this bs
Just plant them in your garden and they will grow like crazy
I dont even fertilize them ...
Water those plants before the mulch, then get that mulch wet.
I've found that Everbearers only produce well their first year.
Love my strawberry patch! I live in zone 4 and was thrilled to learn that my strawberries can survive the winter! We just make sure there is enough leaf litter covering the patch in the fall and every spring we blow them off.
Depends where you are though - lack of availability around these parts
It is nice having them sold at a local gardening center. Stark Bros is a good place to order them online. shrsl.com/40cca (affiliate link)
I have my own strawberry upick and my whole family loves it
Did that tell me why I shouldn’t buy them individually or am I slow?
Oh this is awesome knowledge!!!! 💚
That soil looks terrible
Too expensive. You can buy 100 for 10 bucks.
curious to see if they will grow in that sand
I've purchased strawberry roots 2 yrs in a row and never succeed with any harvest, actually the root produced nothing....very disappointing. I soaked the roots, planted in a healthy soil in April and nothing. Help please
What part of the world u live?
You need only one plant and in a year you will have hundreds
Ever-bearing are not ever bearing. Day neutral are.
That's non-vegan strawberries there 💀
plant native plants, save our pollinators
Thank that was so imformative!
glad you got some good ones, but the ones I ordered were too dry by the time I got them.
Beautiful job! ☺️
@ Yolanda, I wished you lived near me so U could ask you for some pups. I bought some from a nursery here in Georgia and planted them per instructions from the nursery...naught came of them😫!
How do you keep bunnies and other animals from eating them before you do?
My garden is fenced in. It doesn't keep everything out, but it does a great job of deterring most.
You don't have to rehydrate the roots. Just transplant and water well
im no expert but i agree in theory, im thinking a good reason to soak them would be to loosen up compacted roots rather than “rehydration” because yea im sure sitting in very moist soil would be just like sitting in the water anyway right?
@SobeCrunkMonster hydrating the roots is really only necessary if your doing a lot of plants and are going to take longer to get them into the soil. Like if your transplanting hundreds of plants you want to make sure the roots don't dry out that's all. It doesn't make the plant grow faster or anything just reduces some stress from transplanting.
This. I didn’t soak the roots for mine. I just transplanted immediately when the package arrived.
What kind of mulch is that?