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Bemidji Minnesota

My wife wants me to grow some this year. I know very little about them, and google is just trying to sell them, with little good info.

Are there any continuos producers out there, that grow decent tasting fruit, and don't take over gardens?

4/21/2008 1:30:07 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Strawberries come in two varieties June Bearing and Ever Bearing. Any good greenhouse or garden center will have the kind you want in your area. Remove all flowers the 1st season. It will take atleast 2 years to have a productive strawberry bed. Then after that every other year you need to create an area of new growth by tilling on the center of them.

4/21/2008 2:16:24 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Shannon, what do you mean by "tilling on the centre of them"?

Thanks/Glenn

4/22/2008 11:58:38 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

OK let me see if I can explain this properly. Basically you have these invisible rows. Then every other year you rotate and till so new growth will grow into the area. It keeps the patch so you never have old growth that dies out.

4/22/2008 1:50:16 PM

Ottawa, Ohio

You can also space the rows farthure apart and then let them grow together. Mine took several years to grow together but I was getting 3 - 4 gallons of berrys per day from a patch smaller than a pumpkin takes. Then, you can till the original row and let them grow back. Also, I did not remove all the blossoms the first year and they turned out okay. I didn't get lots of the first year but enough to eat here and there. Oh ya make sure you get different varieties so they are not all ready at the same time.

4/22/2008 10:48:12 PM

Check these out...
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/strawberries/growing.html
http://gardening.about.com/od/fruitsberriesnuts/a/Strawberries.htm
http://hflp.sdstate.edu/strawber.htm
Strawberries take maintenance. You need to prep your site, think about your arrangement, prune and care for the runners, and keep the bed clean and cared for between seasons…but the sweets pay off in the end!

4/24/2008 12:00:57 PM

Chicago il.

Would it be to late to start a patch in Illinois?

5/28/2008 9:33:16 PM