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Post by daylilydude on Mar 18, 2019 4:16:37 GMT -5
Do you grow them or just buy them when shopping?
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Post by coppice on Mar 18, 2019 7:24:47 GMT -5
The last fifty plants I bought ended up at SIL's house. So, until I get well established at Laurelville garden. Its gonna be store boughten for me.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 18, 2019 7:32:59 GMT -5
I live near several Amish farms that grow strawberries so I buy them there.
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Post by spike on Mar 18, 2019 8:24:05 GMT -5
I live near several Amish farms that grow strawberries so I buy them there. This exactly!
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Post by farmerjack41 on Mar 18, 2019 8:42:44 GMT -5
Grew them and quite often fine a u pick for some extras.
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Post by september on Mar 18, 2019 9:23:11 GMT -5
Used to grow them, but keeping weeds out of an established bed was too much work for me. I might do it again some day.
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Post by paulf on Mar 18, 2019 9:25:25 GMT -5
Used to grow them, but keeping weeds out of an established bed was too much work for me. I might do it again some day That is my answer, too, except we will not try strawberries again.
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Post by meandtk on Mar 18, 2019 9:25:29 GMT -5
I have a family at church who grows and sells. I think the money may go into college fund for their children. At $15/flat I can hardly go wrong.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 18, 2019 9:59:34 GMT -5
Buy. I am still trying to learn how to grow them; I get a couple (literally one or two at a time) from my few plants.
There used to be a good U-pick place here, but it closed a couple of years ago and I don't know of another one. Sam's Club has the best price and quality for store-bought berries here.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Mar 18, 2019 10:55:46 GMT -5
I have a raised bed that is filled with strawberries. No clue if they're a variety I like as they were here when we moved in. I'll let it grow this year and see if we like them. Otherwise, I'm torn on growing them. We have four different u-pick farms that we like to go to in the summer, so there's no lack of them to be found. The trouble is finding the time to go and do the picking in this season of life with busy teenagers.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 18, 2019 12:38:30 GMT -5
I’ve grown them in the past but not for at least 25 years.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Mar 18, 2019 14:15:29 GMT -5
I remember back in the early 70's we had a bed of strawberries. The reason I remember is because it was full of nutgrass. My job to clean it up before planting. Now I don't know if you've ever monkeyed with that stuff or not, but it's not a pleasant job.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 18, 2019 16:58:40 GMT -5
I monkey with that stuff constantly...I unknowingly brought it into my yard probably 20 years ago in some liriope plants and I haven't been able to eradicate it since. It's in the lawn, the raised beds, the flower beds. Once or twice after a particularly frustrating session of pulling that stuff I have fantasized about eradicating all vegetation in my yard and putting down astroturf and "landscaping" with potted plastic plants.
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Post by Hensaplenty on Mar 18, 2019 18:43:50 GMT -5
Grew strawberries at my last house, and just started two new beds at the new house. Planted 80+ plants. Two varieties. We eat lots of strawberries, and I grow organically. Freeze them!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 18, 2019 21:20:32 GMT -5
I tried them years ago, but gave up. I just buy them at a local organic farmer when in season. I freeze some, but not many.
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Post by bestofour on Mar 18, 2019 21:45:08 GMT -5
I grew them for years but the rains came and the weeds took over and I gave it up. I guess this year I'll buy some to make freezer jam.
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Post by paquebot on Mar 18, 2019 21:46:36 GMT -5
Have my own strawberries about one month each year, buy them the other 11. Been that way for probably close to 30 years. Probably should have refreshed the 50-plant bed last year but circumstances nixed that. Hope to get a decent crop this year and then renew next year.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 19, 2019 8:27:32 GMT -5
We have that plant here too and strawberries are very weed prone so I am happy to buy the berries since they are so readily available where I live and the season is short. The plants are high maintenance just for about a 3 week season. Last year even that was cut short due to the excess rain and the berries rotting.
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