finally got around to planting all my strawberries. I've never grown strawberries before, so hopefully I'm doing things right. I put about 30 plants in my new fruit garden (which was my cut flower garden last year) . I'm planning on putting some straw mulch over the landscape fabric as some point (the weeds still seem to be able to get enough light through the fabric).
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Bareroot strawberry crowns wrapped in moist newspaper. |
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I covered the planting area with permeable landscape fabric. I cut holes in the fabric to pop in the strawberry plants. I also cut some holds for a couple hyacinth bulbs (which look kind of funny now). |
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Planted and watered. |
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Some of the plants are looking better than others. I think I let the plants try out too much before planting. |
I just planted my strawberries too. They look about the same. Will you get fruit the first year?
ReplyDeleteI should get fruit this year. A lot of sources say to remove the flowers the first year to let the plant get established, but I don't want to wait. I heard a lot of people say that removing the flowers in the first year isn't really necessary.
ReplyDeleteI simply planted mine and ate the results.
ReplyDeleteGood luck and enjoy.