Yes and yes. I pretty much said it right after posting it, after I explained the context of posting yesterday, etc.
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Yes and yes. I pretty much said it right after posting it, after I explained the context of posting yesterday, etc.
My mom just said it's not too late. She's a greenhouse manager, so you can probably take her word for it. You just need to make sure you put straw around them in the fall.
Truth. I could probably call myself a Human Management Engineer, if I really wanted to.
She said you could still even possibly get some this year, but it's not likely and they probably wouldn't be that good.
no, I don't want to eat them this year. I want to pick the blooms so they come back next year
I have no idea how to garden, though. I guess I helped at home but I just watered, planted, and weeded as told. We didn't have a bed for them but I wonder if I'm supposed to do that here? Eh, the neighbors don't have one. It's just in the yard.
She said if you want them to come back every year, you need to put them in a bed, especially with where you live, and make sure you cover them in the fall and winter with straw or leaves (but not walnut leaves) and then remove the mulch in the spring.
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With strawberries planted in the ground the output will really multiply the year after next. You may also want to put straw back on the ground again after the plants sprout next year. This keeps the berries from resting on the ground which can cause them to rot and just be generally dirty. I would certainly trust Pant's mom more than me if she has different guidance but this is just our personal experience.
Srawberry growing at home = more time and effort than they are worth. When I moved in there was a big bed of strawberrys. I tended them for a couple of years and finally tired of fighting birds and squirrels and such and just tore the bed out.
Plenty of places where you can go pick your own around here if you want seasonally local and fresh. Or just go to one of the farmers markets to buy.
I do have some strawberrys but they are wild small berry plants that just volunteered years ago and I have used them as ground cover. Tiny berrys too small to eat but a nice ground cover.
Plenty of places where you can go pick your own around here if you want seasonally local and fresh. Or just go to one of the farmers markets to buy.
I do have some strawberrys but they are wild small berry plants that just volunteered years ago and I have used them as ground cover. Tiny berrys too small to eat but a nice ground cover.
Sorry about the generalization (not really) but if you were to generalize my profession (accountant for the federal government) it would be more or less that picture with boring blues and grays and a shorter haircut. Also, a second book to explain the rules for the first rule book.
And I wasn't really upset about it. Although, admittedly, I am in one of the less nerdy engineering fields.
So I am at this new college hire conference for my company in Orlando that has 71 countries represented. The people I had trained with in Charlotte stuck together all 4 days so far and they just complained to me that they haven't had any fun here and met anyone new. They only go out to the hotel bar and mingle with each other only. I mean come on guys. When are you gonna be in a room with 1200 other college hires from 70+ countries again? Never. I've been going out with guys from Japan, girls from Germany and Hungary, a few managers from Slovakia, a Czech group, a ton of British girls, and a couple Swiss girls etc etc. I mean like I am just loving every second of it because I know I am extremely lucky to have this opportunity. Hopefully they learn their lesson when this conference becomes 15,000 people big with other employees coming in through the end of the week.
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I might ask the garden place to see what works around here - DH's mom has them in a bed, my mom just has them in the garden. Both seem to get good amounts of strawberries with minimal work.
I probably won't have a huge garden next year, but I'd like to do tomatoes, peppers, some herbs, and things like potatoes, carrots...maybe a couple other seed packet things.
and zinnias! just because they are so pretty.
I probably won't have a huge garden next year, but I'd like to do tomatoes, peppers, some herbs, and things like potatoes, carrots...maybe a couple other seed packet things.
and zinnias! just because they are so pretty.
My mom isn't an expert on many things, but I definitely trust her on this. The company even paid for her to go to ISU to get some kind of master gardener certification. She did say there's different kinds of strawberries, so maybe that has to do with it? And either way, they'd probably do fine without a bed. They did for how many millions of years? She just said it's better to have them in a bed. Probably just a "tweaking the system a bit" type of thing that helps the process.
Or she could be full of ****. I don't know. I don't particularly plan on ever trying to grow strawberries, so....
I'm lazy so I don't want to do a bed. Also I know if they need a bed, they won't get in this year. So I'm wondering if I can get them in and then turn that area into a bed at some point. My mom does have a different type from my MIL. MIL has ever-bearing which seem pretty great.
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