I would really like to understand strawberries better. I talked to someone who starts a new bed every year or is it two with some of the young plants, and retires the old bed, b/c the mothers become unproductive. Issues with disease build up would be avoided by rotating as well (another reason I've been given for buying new plants). Then I wouldn't think you would ever need to buy more plants. I wish I could hear from more people, because something in me balks at the idea I'm supposed to buy new plants every 3 years when clearly they are capable of reproducing.setter4 said:Both types are perrenial but "short lived perrenial". Depends on type of plant, soil, care, etc. but most will last between 3 and 6 years.vfem said:Now I had to think this through... but I realized a little too late it does me no good.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but June bearing strawberries are Annuals that fruit in June? Everbearing strawberries fruit twice a year and are perennial? I ordered Everbearing because we just built a bed for them tonight, and I'm hoping to have them year to year now in their own bed.
June bearers bear once in June and Everbearing or Day Neutral types will usually produce 3 times per season but not nearly as many berries each time as June Bearing do.
We did small fuits and berries in Master Gardener class this week. lol
As I'm still learning I found the need to just ask as what I'm reading seems very contridtory. Such as I read and here and there about what produces better... what does... replace every 2-3 years, replace every 4-6 years. Blah blah blahkellygirrl said:I would really like to understand strawberries better. I talked to someone who starts a new bed every year or is it two with some of the young plants, and retires the old bed, b/c the mothers become unproductive. Issues with disease build up would be avoided by rotating as well (another reason I've been given for buying new plants). Then I wouldn't think you would ever need to buy more plants. I wish I could hear from more people, because something in me balks at the idea I'm supposed to buy new plants every 3 years when clearly they are capable of reproducing.setter4 said:Both types are perrenial but "short lived perrenial". Depends on type of plant, soil, care, etc. but most will last between 3 and 6 years.vfem said:Now I had to think this through... but I realized a little too late it does me no good.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but June bearing strawberries are Annuals that fruit in June? Everbearing strawberries fruit twice a year and are perennial? I ordered Everbearing because we just built a bed for them tonight, and I'm hoping to have them year to year now in their own bed.
June bearers bear once in June and Everbearing or Day Neutral types will usually produce 3 times per season but not nearly as many berries each time as June Bearing do.
We did small fuits and berries in Master Gardener class this week. lol
June bearers are bigger and sweeter and produce more overall, they say, than everbearers. I have both, plus alpines (which spread by seed, not runner, make tiny delicious fruit). I'm doing it all haphazardly tho (as usual:/).
Thats where I got mine from last year, they did great! where growing in the bag when they got here. Good luck with them.vfem said:
Oh, I meant Parkseed had growing bag that are huge and Hang off my deck from hooks. I fill the bags with dirt and they hold the strawberries off the sides. I haven't been able to find those bags anywhere else at even a decent price.nightshade said:Thats where I got mine from last year, they did great! where growing in the bag when they got here. Good luck with them.vfem said:
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