First Strawberries of the Season

[vfem]

We picked our first ripe strawberries tonight. My daughter had them for dessert after our taco night dinner. Not a bad size, and very sweet for an everbearing variety!

 

[journey11]

Oh the anticipation! I can't wait for that first mouthwatering ripe strawberry! My DD gets most of them and the thornless blackberries too.

 

[Greenthumb18]

Wow vfem those strawberries look good! Nice size too I bet you enjoyed them.
Can't wait to eat some from the garden once my plants start ripening the strawberries, i can see a few strawberries forming but their still blooming.

 

[Whitewater]

Here in zone 4 my strawberry blossoms are still forming and opening, though we've had blossoms pretty much the whole of April.

Your picture makes my mouth water!! I literally go out to our patch multiple times a day to check and see if any of the flowers have dropped their petals and are forming berries.


Strawberries force me to learn patience, LOL!


Whitewater

 

[lupinfarm]

I need to plant out our bed with Strawberries :/ I'm so bad!

 

[rebbetzin]

They look beautiful!! I have strawberries, but they are not very sweet! I am disappointed! Maybe I need to look for a different variety?

 

[Rosalind]

So jealous! I had a lovely dream last night that I went out to the garden and all my strawberry beds were full of so many ripe strawberries I had to make jam right away... Unfortunately mine will still be just flowers and little green berries for another month.

 

[vfem]

I actually made jam from strawberries I picked last week at the berry patch near my mom's house. They were ripe nearly 2 weeks prior to mine. They only grow june bearing, then rip them out and have corn and tomatoes all summer and replant their strawberries under tunnels in October for the spring sales.

I am adding on another bed right next to these to start movingsome runner plants over into for next year... then slowly next year swap out my old plants for newer, younger runner plants. I'm starting to figure out how to do the cycle to keep getting this gorgeous berries.

I bought these from Gurney's they were the Ozarks I think? I may be wrong. I will get berries until November here on these. I think these need LOTS of water though, and enjoy the humidity of our area.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

I have been picking strawberries here and there for weeks. I have to pick right at ripe or the pill bugs get them. Can I use diatomaceous earth on them? :/ How would I apply this? Put it around the individual plant or the bed?

 

[vfem]

I have been picking strawberries here and there for weeks. I have to pick right at ripe or the pill bugs get them. Can I use diatomaceous earth on them? :/ How would I apply this?

I sprinkle DE on the ground under my strawberry bed! It helps some... I'm about to switch to Wifezilla's idea of Oyster shell to keep the slugs off which are my problem now.

The pill bugs are leaving them alone this year because I mulched my strawberry bed, and its keeping the ripening strawberries off the dirt! Try to mulch with some cheap straw!