June is the month strawberries are at their peak here. Everyone goes strawberry crazy! There are plenty of u-pick farms nearby but I have my own strawberry patch in the garden. Since strawberry plants become less productive over time I’m going to propagate new plants so I’ll go on having thriving plants and fresh strawberries. Imagine doing this with your plants to grow your own free strawberry plants.
Brilliant post and really easy to understand. When I grew strawberries it took a lot of youtube videos for me to finally understand what to do with the runners. This post has really made me want to grow strawberries this year now! xxx
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I sneak strawberries when in in the garden. I think it should be an accepted perk of being the gardener.
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Definitely! I never got to actually eat my strawberries as the day I went out to pick them the birds had got there earlier! You could see where their little beaks had pecked them off. xxx
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I have trouble with mice. My garden is fenced in with chicken wire to keep out the rabbits and other vegetable/fruit lovers but the mice have a highway to everything. We need gardens that are surrounded on all sides and above with some kind of clear, impenetrable dome!
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Lol, someone said to me a greenhouse. I think I need a greenhouse! I just couldn’t believe it because I looked at them the day before and nearly picked them then but thought one more day in the sun and they’ll be perfect! Birds obviously thought so too… xxx
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That early bird thing works!
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This post reminds me of how my mother used to propagate strawberries.
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The old ways are the best ways!
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I love planting strawberries! We had 4 plants that produced strawberries every year, and they were getting big! One year unfortunatley we had a bug issue and half of our strawberries were bad. They were pretty small the first two years so they only produced like 20 strawberries all together!
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Our old village doctor taught me to punch the business of the first year to get a bunch every year after. Mice like to share my strawberries. Darn them!
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Wow, that is really cool! 🙂 I noticed my mom’s strawberries did that one year but it never occurred to me to put them in a pot like that. 😀 I’ll definitely have to try that.
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I need to move my strawberries so they don’t take over my garden. Starting new plants means I’ll have good plants to move.
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That’s really great that you have so many! 😀 Haha, I wish my mom’s would take over – that would mean we’d have a ton of strawberries! I really should move some of them though, because a few planted themselves almost in the walkway. XD
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My former daughter-in-law got a strawberry tower. I have to ask her if they’re producing in it.
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Oh, I’ve seen those but wondered if they work! I’d love to know what she says if you ask her. 🙂
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We haven’t talked in over two weeks which is an insanely long time for us. I’ll have to call her tomorrow and I’ll ask!
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I had no idea this could be done. Thank you Elizabeth!
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You’re welcome! The plants are actually always making new plants but the runners usually end up rooting themselves wherever the original plants are growing. I need to move some because the strawberries are taking over the garden!
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I planted some strawberries one year but I didn’t have enough space. Hubby swears 20 acres wouldn’t be enough for the strawberries I like to eat LOL
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Plant one plant and in five years they’ll take up twenty acres!
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hahaha
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My mum used to have a allotment full of strawberry plants. You took me back to my childhood. Amazing memories. Thank you
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You’re quite welcome!
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