3 Strawberry Growing Mistakes To Avoid At All Cost | HARVEST, Runners, Varieties & Weeds

3 Strawberry Growing Mistakes To Avoid At All Cost | HARVEST, Runners, Varieties & Weeds | Gardening

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These mistakes affected our strawberry harvest -- don't make the same ones we did! Click "Show More" for more resources below.
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0:00-0:21 - Intro
0:22-1:23 - The Good
1:24-3:23 - The Mistakes
3:24-3:51 - Fertilizer
3:52-5:21 - Runners
5:22-6:29 - The Fix
6:30-8:13 - Variety Selection
8:14-8:38 - Final Thoughts
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@DonnaRatliff1 Жыл бұрын

Planted a 4 foot by 18 ft raised bed of bareroot strawberries 3 years ago and honestly the past 2 years I've been getting tons of berries. I put them in raised so I wouldn't have to kill my back in picking them. Has worked out great. Now there's many sister plants and am building another huge raised bed to get those started. I certainly won't need anymore berries than this ever. Just pull out the old plants every other year and will berries forever. Just always give them a haircut after June bearing harvest is over. Feed them in August for the next years berries. Works great

@OakAbode Жыл бұрын

Great advice! How does your raised bed treat your plants in drought? That’s the only reason I’m apprehensive to switch over… but would love it for easier picking!

@MushroomMagpie Жыл бұрын

Building some self watering beds might be a good idea to try with strawberries then.

@flatsville9343 Жыл бұрын

Tall, deep raised beds struggle in drought. My best raised bed for fruiting plants are no taller than 18 in ...and I dug out the bottom 12 in below the soil line & put in well rotted wood & reserved the dug out "dirt" for placement in the top. If the raised beds are too tall & the rotted wood placed on top of the "grass" during the build, they don't absorb water well at all. I built my raised beds with cattle panel & wire fencing & double layer cardboard around the inside edge before filling.

@rocketman3474 Жыл бұрын

Picking off the flowers the first year is probably the most important task in my mind. The next is to manage the runners. Pick the best one and train it into the row and prune off all the rest. That plant becomes next year’s one year old and by the time your original plants pass their 3rd birthday you can pull them and their offspring will fill in the gap. The only downside is that the garden tends to creep slowly to a new location but you don’t have to buy new plants.

@ruthannecoro6198 Жыл бұрын

Ive had the worst luck with bare roots.. I loose them each of the last 3 seasons.. I got 40 bare roots this spring, and I have 4 of those plants that survived.. I went and bought 15 plants.. ridiculously priced🙄 .. a few had 2 plants and most already had a runner.. So Im treating these plants as princesses.. and giving them daily attention to will them to survive this winter.. Ive already got a plan to overwinter them 😅 but If they dont survive, I’ll be done with strawberries. YOur patch looks beautiful and those berries look delicious!

@KI6ESH Жыл бұрын

My story is about the same as yours, I planted two 4x8 beds in nice rows... but I let the runners go crazy. Got very few berries, and by the second year somehow I had 3.5 beds of berries... they spread that much! So I re-started things this year, I dug up the beds and this time I made my rows further apart, and planted the plants much further apart. Now I can easily get in and weed, clip off runners, and harvesting fruit will be so much easier. I will likely replace 1/3 of the plants each year (from a few runners I will allow to propagate) and that should give me a continual supply of plants for the coming years. And of course I will select the varieties that are working best for us and propagate those while still keeping a variety around for them to ripen at different times.

@dianaderoche9312 Жыл бұрын

Try and keep only the first plant from each runner they will be more productive. And yes Everbearing is the way to go. I always use the first plant from each runner to ensure next year's harvest.

@mamabeargardens9439 Жыл бұрын

Lol, it's not just you; we've been picking a similar amount over the past week, and have none in the freezer to show for it! They're just so irresistably delicious...

@julie-annepineau4022 Жыл бұрын

I like albion for ever bearing. Nice big juicy berries. We usually get 2 good flushes. One in June and one in Sept. Small berries can be overcrowding but also not enough water. We have had a strange spring so I am hoping to start getting berries soon now that the frost are gone and not killing the centers of the flowers.

@OakAbode Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Albion it is

@ashliemoore6332 10 ай бұрын

We started our strawberries last October.. around 55 plants. We did strawberry plugs (chandler) they are large and so sweet but didn’t produce as many as I hoped for. But we didn’t pinch off the first year.. oops!! We did in mounded rows and put black weed fabric between rows. It prevented the runners from taking hold but I was like you completely overwhelmed with the amount of runners and unfortunately lost 90% of all my runners from the tiny roots drying out on the black fabric. We learned so much this year too. I’m staying on top of those runners this next year. Ours are also June bearing and we are adding an everbearing so we can have strawberries most of the year.

@maryschermerhorn3893 Жыл бұрын

My dad used an 18" lawn mower to make rows, and I guess the rows were the runners. Try it may work for you.

@OakAbode Жыл бұрын

Totally trying this!

@tfisher67 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this very useful info. I learned a lot from your successes and failures. I'm growing some in a kiddie pool and am struggling a bit with the amount of green growth and few blooms. I've heard that "Chandler" is a good variety of strawberry for the south.

@douglassullivan9684 Жыл бұрын

I planted Mara Des Bois day neutral strawberries this year. Most say it is the best tasting day neutral strawberry out there. I will know later next month how they taste.

@trange3770 Жыл бұрын

worst luck with bare root anything. I buy my strawberry plugs from Isons in June and get them in late October and plant them and so far they are doing fantastic. Every other year I buy about 50 plugs and plant them we have over 100 not including the runners. 3 girls make short work of the patch all summer

@rafika816 Жыл бұрын

Exceptionally informative. Thanks for the helpful advice.

@graphguy Жыл бұрын

When you have to harvest strawberries you realize how cheap store bought strawberries are. If I had to charge for what I pick they would be $30 a pint.

@jimfershee Жыл бұрын

We have done strawberries a few years ago and they did ok, but we had to battle turtles and birds for them. How do you control those and other pest issues?

@MushroomMagpie Жыл бұрын

Strawberries really like straw as a mulch. Get it? Straw-berries, seems so obvious!

@Wellnessuntamed Жыл бұрын

They will grow in your wood chips too as the wood breaks down.

@loriegroth2472 Жыл бұрын

I planted 225 bare root everbearing crowns in mid May. It was very dry and hot and I may not have watered them as much as I should have. All but 4 have died and the whole bed is full of weeds. Sigh.

@OakAbode Жыл бұрын

Oh no! I’m so sorry!