First Fruit of the Year: June Bearing Strawberries
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2018
- The easiest fruit to grow here in the Philly area. Strawberries. Plant and the rest of the work is harvest. Most reliable crop I have. The only thing that bothers it is the neighborhood groundhog. No threat of a late frost, hardy, early, sends out prolific runners, little disease and insect pressurel.
June bearers fruit from May 23rd till July. From there my everbearing types pick up the slack and I have fresh strawberries 6 months out of the year. All overall winner.
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Great French! Lol! Berries look great, making me jealous over here.
First time anyone has ever said that! I've had lots of practice with that one :D
Thanks for sharing this video , The best way to git rid of it groundhogs . Try to mix oat meal with plaster of Paris from Home Depot and peanut butter togather. make a balls the size of marbles. After they eat this mixture that makes them feel always full and they go to their apartment full and happy , finally getting Rest In Peace:) never comes.
Ross, I had success with Gophers using Gonzo Gopher traps that I purchase at Lowes. My garden is clear of gophers for awhile ;)
Looks delicious mate. I think you should put some straw around it. One rain could cause a lot of damage! Cheers V
Not a bad idea. Any problems with slugs over there?
Ross Raddi Yea I’m sick and tiered of them.
Groundhogs were a big problem for me too. I used the humane traps at first and caught a number of small ones and relocated them, but the big daddy got so angry at getting caught he actually busted his way out. Groundhogs ALWAYS have 2 holes as a backup. Find both holes and completely close up one. At the other, get an emergency flare, light it, and throw it down the hole, then plug up that entrance too. It may very well smother them as it burns up all the oxygen. It didn't work for me, or didn't kill all of them anyway, so I ended up shooting them. I've dispatched 6 of them and hadn't seen any in my yard for 2 years, but I just saw one run across the road from my neighbors yard so now I'm watching to see if it ventures back. Of course, I have a dog now too, so that helps, but when it was a puppy it caught a young groundhog and killed it, though not before first bringing it into the house. What a mess! Good luck! They can wreak such havoc on a garden, especially when you have a whole family of them.
I had 8 one year! Insanity. They actually have multiple exits. I did think about smoke bombing them, but they'd easily escape.
Lots of delicious/yummy looking strawberry! What type of soil they prefer? do they need fertilising? what is the species name with the nice taste?
I don't fertilize here or do much to the soil unless it's an annual garden bed. Mulch is the key for all perennials.
Here's the link to Mara Des Bois: www.noursefarms.com/product/mara-des-bois/
Hope that helps!
Can u plant them in a pot?
I bought some ever bearing actually I have 38 plants and it doesn’t say what strain it is of ever bearing is there anyway you can tell they are nice and hearty looking in the garden they came three in a pack at the nursery do you think I will get fruit this year? I made two separate strawberry patches about 20 feet apart with other With other vegetables in the middle like green bean seeds
If they are everbearing, yes!
As far as how they multiply is it good to let them just multiply on their own and send off babies or is it good to trim the baby is the first year or second year or 30 year etc. to get more power for the fruits
I let them do their thing. They're hard to stop anyway!
Ross Raddi Thank you for all the replies
Does bubblegum kill them or do raccoons eat bubblegum I’m a little confused I never ever ever heard of that in Chicago
Bubblegum is supposed to kill the groundhog. It does not. It's a myth.
I have a June bearing that starting to flower and I've read and watched CZcams videos that say the first year of growing strawberries you should cut the flowers off what do you think about this? Thank you so much and God bless
You can harvest a few but I recommend picking mkst of the flowers to help the plant develop a good root system, and produce good & healthy runners for more plants. You may even get better fruut the following year
@@animalschannel7544 ok thank you. I've actually cut all the runners.off too... oops
@@thesnoozebutton2568 It's fine, we all learn by making mistakes and trying out new things, have a nice day!
I just bought strawberry plants to try this year, June bearing starting to flower so I should take off the flowers. Never had June bearing before
2:51 don’t stress the strawberries..just eat & enjoy.
...Maybe talk to them too..
also if you allow them to eat out of your garden, they will eat everything.
How close did you plant them?
If you want them to fill in an entire area, space them out equally from each other all throughout that space. Otherwise you could plant them literally 2 inches from the other. They'll eventually do that anyway with the new runners they put out after they're done cropping.
Ross Raddi yeah, I spaced mine out according to recommendations I found in a book, but when fully grown there was still a bit of room between each plant. They didn't look anything like yours
What's that planted in the center
Figs that have since come up from the base. You can plant them under any tree. They don't mind shade.
Lol put a strawberry in a live trap they will go for it