Last summer I used some old tires that I cut the sidewalls out of to create a cascading strawberry bed. I planted about 30 plants from several everbearing varieties then waited... The late planting didn't yield much, those plants threw dozens and dozens of shoots to new plants.
Well, later winter I expanded the bed with more tires then early, early spring, I dug up and transplanted a couple dozen starters into the expansion and gave away about 100 starters to other families in our clan, effectively thinning the original bed...
Now, less than a year since the first planting, in addition to the multiplication to other beds, we are harvesting almost a quart of strawberries every two or three days!! This has been quite a fun project for the homestead!!
Jo Smith
We started a few new beds last year and they went CRAZY ... we harvested quite a lot from them last year, and my oldest (Tylor) had to contain them a little better. Hindsight ... something we should already have since we've been growing strawberries at his location for several years ... we really should have stuck with one variety at the new perennial garden, OR at the very least separated the two varieties by several rows. Oh well. Now the plan is to have a 4-year rotation on them and I think we are just not going to worry about the varieties mixing.
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