Strawberries running amok !

Vine ripened strawberries. Joy!

What kind of soil? And are you a wet climate or a dry climate?

at one time i had four strawberry patches, three were outside the fenced gardens. then the deer found them. i now only have the one patch inside the fence left. the raccoons, chipmunks, groundhogs and birds all found that patch too and i barely got any production the past several years, but finally this year i did get enough berries to put up some freezer jam. it's delicious. i'll have to limit my feasting upon those jars in the freezer to just once every few months.

this was all a way to say that i started with six plants. five of one variety and then a year later i picked up another variety as one plant and put that in the first patch. from that first year i had over a hundred plants and gave away

plan on renovating the strawberry patch in the third year, basically the easiest thing to do is to just go and turn under a third of the patch from then on and rotate through the patch to make sure it all gets turned under eventually. the crowns of the strawberry plants will reduce their production the older they get after 2 years. let the runners start in the turned under patch and then you'll keep it going with better production, when done turning it under apply some good top mulch with some compost under it. no need to add other fertilizers unless your soil is particularly devoid of nutrients.

songbird

First harvest is over , we'll get a few berries at a time for the rest of the summer - thus the need for a bigger patch . We get average