Anyone grown strawberries before?

7river7wed7

I planted 6 strawberry seedlings. Since, two have turned brown and shriveled and the rest have lost their flowers and look like they may die. I water daily - twice if it's hot - and they get full sun.

Is there something I'm missing here?

7river7wed7

1) No - bought them as seedlings

2) No - IDK what that even means

ariel06

Strawberries are hard.  After two years we gave up on them because our soil is too acidic and the strawberries end up tasting gross. 

Could it be Verticillium Rot?

7river7wed7

Ugh - that makes me sad. I decided to try them because everything I read said they were easy. IDK - what woudl be the signs of that? They don't have any other noticable blemishes other than turning brown -- no funky colors, holes or bumps.

ETA: I just looked it up and it seem like if that's what it was all of our other plants should be dying too... everything is flourishing except the strawberries. They are in a separate raised bed, but all the compost/soil came form the same source.

hbarbour

Not sure where you live/how hot it gets. Could you be overwatering them? If they are just seedlings, they might not need that much H2O yet. 

7river7wed7

Possibly I suppose... we have very sandy soil (land used to be a river bed if that gives you any idea how sandy it is!) so it drains very quickly. I would attribute it to being too sandy but again, everything else is growing great.

7river7wed7

They're in a raised bed so it's just a mix of compost, vermiculite and peat moss.

smurfette2682

we used to have strawberries growing up, i didn't have them as seedlings though, they were just always there, came back every year.  i know that they loved when we mulched around them with pine needles, so if you have any pine trees around, try to pick up the fallen brown needles and put them around them, it releases something into the soil that the strawberries thrive on.