Strawberries?

mcpurple

mcpurple

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I have 2 types one creates runners the other creates rhizomes. i have alot of the runners but i hate this variety as it seems to produce much less. my question is how do i tell witch ones will creat runners or new plants through the roots before i buy some?
if this makes sense:-?
 
I have no Idea how to tell but I grow sequia they produce big fatties and taste great. good yield
Yo're turning into quite the little farmer there aren't you?
Some of your boss rubbing off?
 
sorry bro i recently learned that (i mean unless some one here is got a trick or something around it) that you can only tell the diff types by the berries . am about to get my first ones , in a week or two i can show you how the runner ones look so you can avoid em
 
I grow Rainier strawberries-small fruit bearing runners. I also grow June bearing ones the are much stouter with less running and bigger fruit.
 
Hows your berries doing there Mickey P ?
I transplanted mine again and added a bunch of compost. Berries love compost and lots of organic matter to grow in. I put a groung cover cloth down to keep the berries off the dirt and keep the weeds down. This will be the second season for these plants. I did the first season in a really light and sandy medium and treated it sorta like hydro but not great production. Hope to do better this season. Anything that resembles desert gets extra attention in my garden due to fact that I love desert. My thornless blackberries are a raging success and many a blackberry pie has graced my dinner table. Berries are a very worthwile crop in my opinion.
 
I thought you were talking about how you lover you sandy soil in the desert. :-P
Not about your homegrown desserts.
Sounds awesome - thornless blackberrries? Are they really thornless or do they just have a few of them?
 
Totally thornless unless they revert back to thorned but I always dig those guys out and toss. I am frequently misunderstood both in writing and in speech. Trust me it ain't just you. Sorry bout that.
 
well i think they are doing good, its winter and cold so not much leaf on them yet, but i checked them the other day and they have root starts and look healthy for the most part, come spring time they will be taking off and be ready to sell.
i will take a pic of them all tomorrow and post them here
 
doser said:
Hows your berries doing there Mickey P ?
I transplanted mine again and added a bunch of compost. Berries love compost and lots of organic matter to grow in. I put a groung cover cloth down to keep the berries off the dirt and keep the weeds down. This will be the second season for these plants. I did the first season in a really light and sandy medium and treated it sorta like hydro but not great production. Hope to do better this season. Anything that resembles desert gets extra attention in my garden due to fact that I love desert. My thornless blackberries are a raging success and many a blackberry pie has graced my dinner table. Berries are a very worthwile crop in my opinion.
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Nice me and my son love blackberries we have our few patches of wild stuff around and we make our berry runs in the summer as they ripen, we'll go for the wild strawberries first, then the blue and raspberries then the blackberries and choke cherries. Is that why you see strawberry farms put hay around their plants to help keep em clean, I always thought it was to slow the evaporation of water. Thank you for teaching me something new.

PIPBoy2000 said:
I thought you were talking about how you lover you sandy soil in the desert. :-P
Not about your homegrown desserts.
Sounds awesome - thornless blackberrries? Are they really thornless or do they just have a few of them?
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I know eh Pip I though they we're talking about loving the desert climate too,which don't get me wrong is a beautiful climate in it's own strange way but to bring the desert in your backyard is another feat on it's own.

Jone aristo said:
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Its juice is very fruitful to the health even liver is also take more energy to make the blood in the body.
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Strawberries are great for many other things then to eat and taste yummy, wild strawberries have been utilized for years as medicine they hold lot's of to eat mMMmm but also as a cosmetic remedy for complexity whitening and fading of freckles, crushed berries also act as an emergency cooling agent for mild sunburns or burns in general, these berries are also a liver tonic and have antibacterial properties. There are many more uses but these are the more common ones I supposed even tho the most common thing is to eat em just for taste. lol
 
PIPBoy2000 said:
Don't forget about teas made from the leaves and flowers. A slice of dried berry to sweeten it up.
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Nice I didn't even think of drying up slices to put in tea, that's awesome I'm going to try it for sure but only from my own grown or wild ones because those store bought ones have no flavor at all my son wont even eat them.
 
My grandma sent me this pack of dried strawberries and it was actually very good.
The sad thing is she used to send her homemade fudge and shortbread - now she's buying stuff - not a good sign.
 
smokey de bear said:
Nice me and my son love blackberries we have our few patches of wild stuff around and we make our berry runs in the summer as they ripen, we'll go for the wild strawberries first, then the blue and raspberries then the blackberries and choke cherries. Is that why you see strawberry farms put hay around their plants to help keep em clean, I always thought it was to slow the evaporation of water. Thank you for teaching me something new.

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the hay is used as mulch, it helps retain water, stops and or slows the growth of weeds, keeps the plants warm if the night is cold and cool when the day is hot. worms also love it and after the season it breaks down and adds lots of goodies to the soil.

i like weed cloth bit hay is cheaper and it breaks down into the earth
 
I was talking to an old farmer last year and he told me that at the end of the year they would kick up the hay onto the dying leaves and put fire to it, this would kill any bugs and prevent rotting leaves and mold as well as semi reconditioning the soil.

I dunno anyone else hear of this practice, Smokey says "only you can prevent...burning your neighbors barn down"
 
smokey de bear said:
I was talking to an old farmer last year and he told me that at the end of the year they would kick up the hay onto the dying leaves and put fire to it, this would kill any bugs and prevent rotting leaves and mold as well as semi reconditioning the soil.

I dunno anyone else hear of this practice, Smokey says "only you can prevent...burning your neighbors barn down"
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i like burning for every thing you just listed but i dont and wont ever use it as it is out dated. the fire will also kill all the good bugs like worms and other things as well as soil microbes and microbe life, then it is pretty much like restarting from scratch when you burn. it can take years to build another microbial colony or fungi colony. also i think they hay would benifet the ground more buy composting it or tilling it in to the dirt
 
here they burn for every thing, even to get rid of grass and weeds, i don't tho we keep bees and if we burned all the time they would run away
 
mugan said:
here they burn for every thing, even to get rid of grass and weeds, i don't tho we keep bees and if we burned all the time they would run away
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Holy Mugan your into a bit of everything eh, your like me trying to do a bit of all, beekeeping is on my list of things to do but seems like I need to move out to the country first and do a lot of studying on the matter and get some gear together. I just want to help local bee colonies from dissapearing.
 
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