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Emily227

Reposting from MM since it's less likely to get buried under posts here:

Holy crap! You have 75-100 strawberry plants?? Do you have pictures? I'd love to see how you have that many. I only have 1 in a pot.

hoping4septimus

The area in this picture under the windows between the small tree and porch is all strawberries.

Emily227

Is this pic on FB? I want to enlarge it. What do the strawberries look like when they aren't producing fruit? I'm such a gardening virgin. I'd love to grow more strawberries since I love them! Mine hasn't produced anything yet--although I'm out of town for 2 weeks and my husband says they are starting to turn red, so hopefully when I get back next week I will have some.

I'm hoping that we have a pretty long growing season where I live. I know only about 1 hour away is one of the biggest strawberry producing cities in the country.

Maybe next year I'll plant them in the ground. Any tips on putting them into the ground? Do they spread if they have room?  I'd also like to do raspberries.

hoping4septimus

Emily227:

Is this pic on FB? I want to enlarge it. What do the strawberries look like when they aren't producing fruit? I'm such a gardening virgin. I'd love to grow more strawberries since I love them! Mine hasn't produced anything yet--although I'm out of town for 2 weeks and my husband says they are starting to turn red, so hopefully when I get back next week I will have some.

It is on FB and there is a close up of the actual plant. They don't look any different really when they aren't producing

I'm hoping that we have a pretty long growing season where I live. I know only about 1 hour away is one of the biggest strawberry producing cities in the country.

Maybe next year I'll plant them in the ground. Any tips on putting them into the ground? Do they spread if they have room?  I'd also like to do raspberries.

I bought the roots from Spring Hill with a coupon (I got rasperry roots at the same time). The first year I got basically nothing. DH laughed about how we got one strawberry a day. Year 2 we got quite a bit, enough make strawberry short cake or eat daily. This is year 3. We are eating them daily, giving them a way and I have enough to make a big batch of jam this weekend.  They spread if you let them. You'll get more if you don't let them spread supposedly, but I haven't had any issue and they make a pretty ground cover when they aren't producing.

The raspberries were non existant the first year, last year I had a few to munch on, but hopefully this year looks like I'll get enough to use..