Strawberries
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Topic: Strawberries
Posted By: DzinerGirl
Subject: Strawberries
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 5:55pm
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Who is growing strawberries?
I saw some plants small-mid sized at Mitre 10 yesterday - is it too late for me to try growing these or if I buy the plants I should be okay? Any tips for getting good results? |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 6:23pm
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Nope not to late. Get some strawberry food and mix it into the dirt where you are going to plant them. Give them lots of food and you may still get berries this season. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: happymumma
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 6:30pm
| I'm sure I read somewhere that you can also use tomato food if you have it. |
Posted By: Rovic
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 9:36pm
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I just planted up my plants last weekend.If you plant them in the garden (as opposed to strawberry planters, hanging baskets etc) make sure you put some pea straw or black plastic around them so the berries don't rest on the ground. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Mum_mum
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 8:22am
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Yeah you should definatly be fine to plant them now. We also tend to pick off all the flowers at this stage until mid november so the plant puts the energy in to getting bigger not growing strawbs so early. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 2:50pm
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Thanks Hannahbil - great advice to pick off the flowers - my plants have got loads of flowers, but only useless tiny strawberries. That might be the problem! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MrsMc
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 5:44pm
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i never thought about picking off the flowers. Last year when I had a strawberry plant I was just so excited about getting strawberries (gee anyone would think I was 4) that I didnt care about the size haha
will definately try that next time though |
Posted By: kiwi2
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 9:47pm
| We have picked 4 big red strawberries already. I call my DD (4years) whenever I see one and the whole neighbourhood can hear the shreiks of delight. So funny and such good fun. Mine have been in a few months already so not much help on the plant now question. |
Posted By: lil_lease
Date Posted: 14 November 2010 at 9:51am
I just picked my second berry and mmmMMMMM are they so good. So juicy and sweet. I cant wait for the rest of the flowers to berry up  ------------- Antony, gone but never forgotten 2-4-2010 
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Posted By: whitewave
Date Posted: 14 November 2010 at 1:12pm
| I just bought 4 for $10 at Bunnings, I chose some that had berries on them already even though the plants are still small! Am planting them today. |
Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 01 January 2011 at 9:40pm
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Oh is it too late now for strawberry plants to grow berries? My plant (got it off a friend in late November) is growing really well but no flowers or berries yet. It's in a pot outside. So I probably won't get any berries till next summer? (I'm not a gardener at all so not sure how it works!) ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 10:12pm
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possibly in welly Rachelsea - is it very warm? they like lots of sun, water and give tham strab food - from the garden shop - the bonus would be they may be almost fruiting when you buy them and you wont have to wait long ------------- http://lilypie.com] 
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 9:00am
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If they are treated right they can fruit all the way through to april. Our ones last year in a pot done that, I just put on some fertaliser once a week and had them in a nice warm sunny spot ------------- 
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 06 January 2011 at 4:09pm
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Oh I didn't know that about fertiliser - all I do is water them once a day. They are in a sunny warm spot, will look out for some strawberry food/fertiliser (who knew there was such a thing as strawberry food lol) ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 06 January 2011 at 6:26pm
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lol you can use most types of fertiliser, I mainly use worm juice from my worm farm, but it doesnt matter really. -------------
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