Sunday, June 14, 2009

One Strawberry Pot, two tiny strawberries


I planted Everbearing Strawberry plants into this 4 gallon strawberry pot in the hopes of having a few berries on my cereal each morning.  This strawberry plant is a perennial that is supposed to produce all summer.  Strawberry pots are designed to be planted mostly at the top.   Then the plant's runners travel down to the openings in the pot, where they form a new plant that sprouts out the side.  Conveniently, the berries hang right out there just waiting to be picked.  I decided to help the pot out a little, since I'm getting a late start this spring.  I bought three 4-packs from the garden center and put some of the plants in the upper holes, and 4 little plants in the very top.  I'll let the bottom holes fill in by themselves.  Maybe these plants will last the winter and next year I'll have early spring strawberries.

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