Everything You Need to Know About Growing Strawberries
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- In this episode of the Maritime Gardening Podcast I talk about everything you need to know about growing strawberries: varieties, what to buy, when to plant, how to plant, maintenance, plant needs and propagation.
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Lovely to think about strawberries while the blizzad rages outside. There is at least one farm in the Annapolis Valley which exports strawberry plants to Florida for their winter harvest (It's too hot for then to survive a Florida summer) Many tractor trailers are shipped each carrying 13,000 or so plants. So if you buy Florida (not California) strawberries in Halifax NS in winter they very likely started life there. . I had home made strawberry jam this morning.
Enjoy that jam!
Thanks for the info! We bought some everbearing runners from someone in our area last spring but unfortunately they didn't do well at all. Never grew large leaves or plants, stayed very small. This past fall we dug some of the survivors up and planted them in our regular garden where they will get lots of sun, hoping they will grow better, if we decide to keep them that is. After listening to your podcast I think we should go back to a June bearing strawberry, which we used to grow. I'm wondering what your thoughts would be regarding sawdust as a mulch for strawberries? It would be from either spruce or pine, do you think strawberries would like it or not?
Folding newsprint starter pots and listening thankyou
That's awesome
First fruit of the season, then asparagus and rhubarb & peas. Yum!!
First year I planted 24 tiny bare-root crowns I got for cheap. Second year we were battling the chipmunks to get our share of strawberries. Year 3 and 4 they took over the bed and we ate a large bowl every single morning for a month. All the neighborhood chipmunks constantly raiding them no longer even makes a noticeable dent.
I quickly became overwhelmed with all the baby plants they keep producing so I started selling them. Turns out baby strawberry plants sell REALLY well, so now they literally pay for all of our year's compost/mulch/fertilizer purchases! Totally worth it!
Hi Greg, I was wondering, can you grow asparagus and strawberries in the same 8x4ft bed or would it be too crowded?
Lots of people say you can, but from what I've seen it inevitably becomes a weedy mess - very hard to maintain even with mulch. It's not impossible, but you might regret it - and since asparagus take years to mature, my advice, give everything it's own home.
Wow! First to like the video and first to comment, lol The blizzard has me on the computer.
Thanks!
I grew up in NS. Strawberries, wild blueberries, and Apples YUM! all grow well in NS. I live in Southwestern Ontario now. We have a few more fruit options here but what I really miss are the wild blueberries of NS... Anyway! Thank you for the strawberry information. I planted a new patch of strawberries last year, hopefully they take off this year. I also visited a strawberry farm last summer. I learned so much.
27 degrees Celsius is about 81 degrees Fahrenheit, 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Year 3 of strawberries for me. I'm very much looking forward to seeing their production now! Once they were going last year, I was getting a pint a day.
I also allowed my strawberries to go wherever they wanted. I'm going to try using them as a ground cover the next couole years. Maybe if'll be worth it, maybe it will be annoying. We'll see!
I've read that strawberries and asparagus play well together, so definitely trying the mixture of the two.
I was given some everbearing strawberry plants one fall without success in two seasons. So now I have a bed with a few of three varieties to see which works best.One variety is from a box of local berries there were a couple mushy ones so I squished them in a planter with endless plants to work with. Time will tell what I get. Enjoyed your talk!
Thanks Mike
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I'm planting bare root in containers this year..so yummy
I am getting some spring bearing this year. I have everbearing but the slugs get a lot of them in the fall. I think all mine are well insulated under 2-5 ft of snow right now.
Such a good talk. Thankyou. Answered all the questions I would have had.
Thanks
Greg, when temps get over 27c would shade cloth help keep the heat off the plants. I’m in south central Kansas and we experience 90-100 f frequently in July and august.
This was very informative thank you. Would you consider a part 2 on strawberry pests and how do you stop birds from eating all your berries?
great idea - I'll add that to my list of show ideas!
In the meantime - fine netting - that is the solution to birds.
The English Poet, William Langland said, "Patience is a virtue". I suspect he may have tried his hand at growing strawberries from seed. Yes growing strawberries from seeds takes time. But there are lots of things in our gardens that take a long time to mature before they will bear fruit. For example, you have apple trees in your garden which you transplanted a year or two ago. It'll likely take some time before you'll have apples, but as a gardener you invested the time and effort knowing that good things come to those who wait. Rather than dissuade your audience from trying to grow strawberry from seeds, might I suggest you as a gardener encourage your viewers that the journey is just as enjoyable as the destination. Otherwise why bother with gardening and just get our produce from the grocery store. Can't get more instant gratification than that. Please don't get me wrong. I enjoy watching your videos and I appreciate you sharing your experiences and insights. I think we should be more positive and encourage others to get into gardening.
As an aside, I did try growing strawberries from seed during the pandemic. It was an experiment and the seeds were extracted from strawberries I purchased from the grocery store. And yes it took 3 years, but now when my neighbour's little girl comes over to visit with my mum, they pick strawberries together from a 2' x 8' bed overgrown with strawberry plants. Was it worth it? Their smiles says it was. The other plus side is that I have tons of runners every year, which I transfer into pots and give away to family and friends.
I don't think it's fair to say that I am dissuading my audience by merely stating the fact that the one option is faster and easier than the other. In fact - I think I said that it is likely that there are more options available by seed. So I weighed the merits of both options fairly.
I’m using pine needles for mine. They’re already dead and brown and 👀 like straw. Anyone can Try this if you live by pine trees.😊❤
I need to give my strawberries a little deeper soil without a billion weeds. Thr slugs feasted on mine cause it was too wet there.
Where in Nova Scotia is your garden? Just moved here from zone 3-2. No garden in yard. Need top soil and compost and hay or straw. Where would one get such items?
I'm out near Peggy's cove. top soil source depends on where you live. For hay & straw try marketplace/kijiji
If I plant strawberries and raspberries in a 8L x 4W x 12H (in feet) raised bed, will the soil freeze the full depth and kill the plants? Should I dig them up and put them in the garage overwinter?
No - they'll be fine. I think they are hardy to zone 3 or 4. They are tough. If you dig them up you'll never get any strawberries - you need to leave the roots alone.
@@maritimegardening4887 noted. Thanks sir. Love your content.
The first time I grew strawberries I didn't really know what I was doing and just let most of the runners go and produce new plants without any real method. I would just pull out the crowns that looked shabby in any given year and let the healthy ones go. I got great crops of strawberries for years and years. In fact I eventually pulled them out while they were still producing great because the box was falling apart and I wanted to get some blueberries started in that spot.
I have 25 roots coming to me this April that I'm planning to put in a similar sunny spot but I was planning on getting all or most of them into one 4x8 bed. I was just going to do the crisscross pattern rather than rows and plant them a foot apart. Do you think that's too close?
I think they'll grow fine, but over time I don't think you'll get the most out of each plant. I suggest either filling another bed - or sharing some of them with a friend.
@@maritimegardening4887 Maybe I'll give some to my neighbor. Thanks
Usually, I enjoy all of your podcasts. However, today I feel like you left out quite a bit with care of strawberries. During the summer, there is some work with strawberries and it’s usually during the hottest part of the summer. I don’t believe you ever mentioned the picking off of runners. And if you have done a good job with your strawberries and fertilizing, there will be many many runners. I was under the impression that it was a good idea to pluck off the runners unless you want more baby strawberry plants. Also, do you move your strawberry plants every year? I recall watching one of your RUclips and you mentioned that strawberries seem to love being moved. Is that so that you can re-amend the soil? Can you clarify that statement for me. I have many strawberries, and would like to know.
I talk about runners at length in this recording. You don't move them every year - they need to stay put to mature and give better yields.
I like leaves for mulching much better than anything else, I’ve spent hours pulling weeds out of my bed from using anything else.
@MsCindyh Yup...I only use my Maple Leaves for mulch. I have a 2' × 30' bed of strawberries and get huge yields every year...all June bearing.
Mike 🇨🇦
Additional questions on strawberries: what’s the best way to overwinter strawberries in cold climates. Second, for weeding, how do you distinguish between strawberries and weeds that look like strawberries.
Just mulch them - that's it. The only weeds that look like strawberries are wild strawberries. Generally they have smaller leaves and thinner stems.
squirrels eat all mine.
Why strawberries are called strawberries…
STRAWBERRY HISTORY
Strawberries, which are thought to have been cultivated in ancient Rome, were originally grown in Europe. Today, however, varieties also can be grown throughout Chile, Russia, and the United States.
The first known American species of strawberries was cultivated about 1835. The berries seem to be strewn among the leaves of the plant, and they were first called strewberries in the late 18th century.
Later, the name was changed to strawberry-possibly from the practice of English children threading the berries on pieces of straw for sale or from the 19th century practice of laying straw around the strawberry plants to protect them from bad weather. Other stories noted that farmers would bring the strawberries to market on beds of straw to protect them during traveling.
I’ve tried to grow strawberries in my garden here in southern Alberta for 5 years. I have yet to have more than a couple plants that survive the inevitable 2 weeks of -30c . I know we grow strawberries in Alberta. I see them! I KNOW people who grow them!😡🤬 I just keep trying to insulate them enough in my garden. 🤦♂️ and I suck! 🫤
maybe try a dome as well as mulch?