OT: farm related/Strawberries ideas, planting, tricks ?

Anonymous-0 · Jan 30, 2009

Anyone of you kind folks have any ideas on growing nice strwberries ? Cultivars, tricks to keeping the plants healthy, strawing, etc. Do any of you folks just plant for the one year and harvest from them the same year (early and late summer) after you pant them in the spring? Or is it a must to wait two years ? Methods of growing/planting, preparing and so on ? How about the differences in cell plants and bare rotted as it applies to harvest either the first year or not ? Good warehouses/greenhouses to purcahse cell and bare roots?

JIM

i truly appreciate any info I can get from your experiences !

tlak · Jan 30, 2009

Check with you Ag dept/co-op and see if they have a planter. Ours had one, don't remember if it was free or cheap to rent. This would hill, lay plastic and drip irrigation tubing in one pass. You cut holes in the plastic for planting.

abane · Jan 30, 2009

I have been raising strawberries for the last 25 years. I only grow them for my own use and if I get too many I give them away. I usually put out 50 plants about every 3-4 years and if I really take care of them ,they'll last about 5 years. I put about 5-6 inches of straw over them about mid December for plant protection, and rake it off in March. The ground freezes and thaws in the winter and sometimes pushes the plant root out of the ground and they die out. I keep them clean and put mine in rows about 24 inches apart. In dry summers you have to keep them watered ,especially the first year. I like the June bearing plants the best over the everbearing. You get an overall better produuction but they only last 3-4 weeks.I sure enjoy my strawberries.

Old Timer in Ohio · Jan 30, 2009

Hey there tlak:
Its kind of hard to remember, but my Mom used
to grow some of the "best" strawberries around!
Shes been gone about ten years now. As close as I can remember, we use to have three fields growing berries, One, just planted, one producing
one on its last year of production. The last one
was plowed under, after the season ended. We then
broke off the "runners" (in the spring),to plant the "new" bed. I"m tring to remember, but after
65 years,(I"m 76 now), the details are kinda
"fuzzy". I"ll try to remember more And let ya
know.
Bob
God Bless

Jeff-oh · Jan 30, 2009

Try these Fact Sheets
Ohio State University Factsheet on Strawberries

Coffee Helps · Jan 30, 2009

Cultivars: In my family, we've always grown Sparkle. Cavendish looks like a good variety, in catalogs, but I've never tried growing them.
In your area, I might try getting plants from Miller Nurseries, in Canandaigua, NY. They'd most likely send a planting guide with your plants. www.millernurseries.com If you order from Miller, you might receive their catalog the rest of your life? Mark SW Wis.

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