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strawberries, hard to plant?
I live in CT, I planted 3 strawberry plants in a small raised bed next to a few Daiseys and hostas. Any tips? I've heard strawberries are tough to grow in new england
Re: strawberries, hard to plant?
I live in Maine- they are very easy to grow here. My problem has not been growing the plants but losing the fruit to chipmunks. Make sure not to plant them near a stone wall or any area chipmunks live and cover them with netting before the fruit turns red.
I gave up last year because I harvested almost nothing due to the chipmunks. I dug the plants up and gave them to a friend. This spring runners are popping up all over the place so they are definitely not hard to grow!
If you don't mind frequent watering, they do well in hanging baskets. That might help with the chipmunk problem. I put those metallic pinwheels in my strawberry beds to repel birds, I don't know if that would help too.
You have harsh winters, I wonder if that might be the rumored difficulty. Mine stay mostly evergreen here. Do you need to cover them with mulch for harsher winters?
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
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