How's your strawberry patch doing?

Ruth_10 · April 16, 2012

I picked a ripe strawberry today. It was delicious. There are more out there about ready to pick. The variety is Earliglobe. This is 3 weeks earlier than normal.

For the strawberry growers out there, how is your season shaping up?

kath · April 16, 2012

I've got a fruit that's a couple days away from ripe with lots of other fruit set already and many blooms. The plants seem very happy and look beautiful but I have had to water here to keep them that way. Looks like our harvest might be earlier than normal, too.

Boutique Tomatoes · April 16, 2012

I've got lots of blooms and a few small berries but I'm having to cover/uncover them often. Freeze warnings again tonight mean I'll be out raking straw in the dark when I get home.

If I can keep them alive they might be 3 weeks or more early.

Tracydr · April 16, 2012

Let's just say we had a chicken accident yesterday. 9 year olds and chickens do not belong together adjacent to the garden without supervision.
Okay. I'm done venting now. I'll just keep drinking my sake, chilled.

cornbreadlouie · April 16, 2012

No ripe ones yet. Within the next week or so, I'm thinking.

The ones in the front yard got infested with aphids and are just now recovering, but they have lots of blossoms.

The "patch" (it's only 4 plants) in the backyard have all got fruits and lots of blossoms. The aphids didn't find them, surprisingly. Blurry picture: http://i39.tinypic.com/fnwqdg.jpg

Here's one with berries. They aren't the biggest fruits, but they're the biggest group of them that have formed so far. http://i41.tinypic.com/pxd2x.jpg

I bought 6 more plants for my raised bed in March but have been picking off all of the growth that isn't leaves since they've only got 2-3 each.

nicky · April 17, 2012

I had to move my strawberry patch a few weeks ago during our raised bed/greenhouse construction. I have only seen 1 or 2 blooms on the couple of hundred plants. Hopefully they will do OK this year. Definately nothing anywhere near ripe.

PaulF · April 17, 2012

We are in the process of changing tired out strawberry plants for new ones. The old half (Honeyeye -sp?) has lots of blossoms but no berries yet. The new Earlyglo are greening up nicely and beginning to spread their wings.

Crandrew · April 17, 2012

Here is one from Sunday

Although I keep loosing to te sow bugs that burrow and eat away at the berries!!! Help.

Duets · April 17, 2012

I originally planted 10 strawberry plants, they produced & did fine.....til the neighborhood kids found them, lol. Now I am back to growing phase again. They must have been good, since they only left me 1 strawberry to sample!

I have since, planted a dozen more & placed them in the garden where they are less accessible!

Ruth_10 · April 17, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tracydr

Let's just say we had a chicken accident yesterday. 9 year olds and chickens do not belong together adjacent to the garden without supervision.
Okay. I'm done venting now. I'll just keep drinking my sake, chilled.

Oooooh, Ouch. I don't have chickens, but I do have to protect my plants from the (wild) birds or they will go after the red berries. I have several frames covered with chicken wire that I place over the bed. A pain in the neck, but ya do what ya gotta do.

Ruth_10 · April 18, 2012

I picked a handful of strawberries today, but had to toss most of them. We had 4.25 inches of rain this weekend, and the berries were sitting in mud.

Wet + ripe strawberries =

.

swamper · April 18, 2012

not a blossom here yet.

Crandrew · April 18, 2012

Sow bugs ate another two to death today. Suggestions?

Tracydr · April 20, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ruth_10

I picked a handful of strawberries today, but had to toss most of them. We had 4.25 inches of rain this weekend, and the berries were sitting in mud.

Wet + ripe strawberries =

.

Oh, no! Can you build a little high roof over it? Sort of like a hoop cover but high enough not to hold in heat?
I planted mine in plastic sweater boxes so that I can bring them indoors this summer. I moved them to a shady area a week or two ago as it was getting pretty hot. Strawberries don't do well in AZ except as an annual. I'm hoping. Can grow them under lights for the summer, then back out in the fall.

Tracydr · April 20, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crandrew

Sow bugs ate another two to death today. Suggestions?

Use sluggo. Te iron will get them. I have a lot of sow bugs here too.

April 16, 2012	#1
Ruth_10 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MO z6a near St. Louis Posts: 1,349	How's your strawberry patch doing? I picked a ripe strawberry today. It was delicious. There are more out there about ready to pick. The variety is Earliglobe. This is 3 weeks earlier than normal. For the strawberry growers out there, how is your season shaping up? __________________ --Ruth Some say the glass half-full. Others say the glass is half-empty. To an engineer, it’s twice as big as it needs to be.

April 16, 2012	#5
cornbreadlouie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: SF bay area... north bay Posts: 242	No ripe ones yet. Within the next week or so, I'm thinking. The ones in the front yard got infested with aphids and are just now recovering, but they have lots of blossoms. The "patch" (it's only 4 plants) in the backyard have all got fruits and lots of blossoms. The aphids didn't find them, surprisingly. Blurry picture: http://i39.tinypic.com/fnwqdg.jpg Here's one with berries. They aren't the biggest fruits, but they're the biggest group of them that have formed so far. http://i41.tinypic.com/pxd2x.jpg I bought 6 more plants for my raised bed in March but have been picking off all of the growth that isn't leaves since they've only got 2-3 each. __________________ Do You Like Worms?

April 17, 2012	#7
PaulF Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brownville, Ne Posts: 3,296	We are in the process of changing tired out strawberry plants for new ones. The old half (Honeyeye -sp?) has lots of blossoms but no berries yet. The new Earlyglo are greening up nicely and beginning to spread their wings. __________________ there's two things money can't buy; true love and home grown tomatoes.

April 18, 2012	#11
Ruth_10 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MO z6a near St. Louis Posts: 1,349	I picked a handful of strawberries today, but had to toss most of them. We had 4.25 inches of rain this weekend, and the berries were sitting in mud. Wet + ripe strawberries = . __________________ --Ruth Some say the glass half-full. Others say the glass is half-empty. To an engineer, it’s twice as big as it needs to be.

April 16, 2012	#2
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	I've got a fruit that's a couple days away from ripe with lots of other fruit set already and many blooms. The plants seem very happy and look beautiful but I have had to water here to keep them that way. Looks like our harvest might be earlier than normal, too.

April 16, 2012	#3
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	I've got lots of blooms and a few small berries but I'm having to cover/uncover them often. Freeze warnings again tonight mean I'll be out raking straw in the dark when I get home. If I can keep them alive they might be 3 weeks or more early.

April 16, 2012	#4
Tracydr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7 Posts: 3,207	Let's just say we had a chicken accident yesterday. 9 year olds and chickens do not belong together adjacent to the garden without supervision. Okay. I'm done venting now. I'll just keep drinking my sake, chilled.

April 17, 2012	#6
nicky Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Ontario Posts: 600	I had to move my strawberry patch a few weeks ago during our raised bed/greenhouse construction. I have only seen 1 or 2 blooms on the couple of hundred plants. Hopefully they will do OK this year. Definately nothing anywhere near ripe.

April 17, 2012	#9
Duets Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: NV Posts: 36	I originally planted 10 strawberry plants, they produced & did fine.....til the neighborhood kids found them, lol. Now I am back to growing phase again. They must have been good, since they only left me 1 strawberry to sample! I have since, planted a dozen more & placed them in the garden where they are less accessible!

April 18, 2012	#12
swamper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: CT Posts: 219	not a blossom here yet.

April 18, 2012	#13
Crandrew Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: asdf Posts: 1,202	Sow bugs ate another two to death today. Suggestions?