I find strawbs very easy. If they're in pots, make sure it's a soil based medium, give them a feed now and again, and plenty of water. Slugs are the biggest enemy for me, but it's easier when they're in a pot. Elsanta is a good, mid season variety, copes with everything and anything the weather here chucks at it, and produces a nice fruit. Lots of runners, so very easy to replace stock. I also have an everbearing one which does ok.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
womble, very nice bin you have there, looks like you planted just the right amount - I overplanted my last one and it dried out during summer from lack of watering.
I'll show off my alpine variety which just takes up a lot of space for very little fruit compared to my cambridge favourite which is looking to produce a record amount this year
Looks like you’ve got loads of fruit on your cambridge favourites.
The mistake I made with the bin is I didn’t label the different varieties. So won’t be able tell which is which when and which ones I prefer. Do you think anyone would be able tell them apart?
I found a gardening site that suggested 10 fruit and 10 veg types that could be grown successfully under trees. Strawberries was one of the suggestions, blackcurrants the other, so to utilize the whole of our veg patch we put 30 new strawb plants in this area. Three strawberries, yes just THREE fruits was all we had in the first season. So I carefully dug each plant out over the Autumn, luckily no a single plant died off, moved them to a full sun area of the patch and this year we have the most amazing heavy cropping plants. They are absolutely covered in strawberries and reluctantly we have just laid a net over them, and hope that the curious birds don't become casualties. We have cherry, plum and apple trees, loganberries and various bird food for them to feast on.
I'll show off my alpine variety which just takes up a lot of space for very little fruit compared to my cambridge favourite which is looking to produce a record amount this year
Get some alpines growing in pots and you can really extend the season by keeping them in the greenhouse in colder weather. I've picked them almost every month of the year I think. You need to put them outside on sunny days in the winter to get the flowers pollinated but otherwise they're fairly easy to deal with.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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If they're in pots, make sure it's a soil based medium, give them a feed now and again, and plenty of water.
Slugs are the biggest enemy for me, but it's easier when they're in a pot.
Elsanta is a good, mid season variety, copes with everything and anything the weather here chucks at it, and produces a nice fruit. Lots of runners, so very easy to replace stock. I also have an everbearing one which does ok.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'll show off my alpine variety which just takes up a lot of space for very little fruit compared to my cambridge favourite which is looking to produce a record amount this year
alpine:
cambridge favourite
The mistake I made with the bin is I didn’t label the different varieties. So won’t be able tell which is which when and which ones I prefer. Do you think anyone would be able tell them apart?
I need a strawficionado!