Any of you freaks ever grow strawberries?

[Shadrach]

Give me your best method and varieties.

[deathdawg]

Man I can't even grow tomatoes. Tried a couple times but we have a great little farmers market downtown and I just leave it to the pros. Nor am I hosting chickens to drop eggs.

[Rogasingingdawg]

I buy the Whopper variety from Gurneys.  They were doing well until I got chickens this year.  Chickens ate all the strawberries then tore up the plants.

Gotta replant in a fenced in area.  24 plants in a raised bed produced nearly 1 1/2 gallons of strawberries in the 2nd year.

3rd year chickens arrived and strawberries got gied.

[ugafan49]

no, we got to the farm over across the water and pick all we want.

[bNe]

Hanging plastic repurposed bottles or the like are yer fren Roga

something like this

[JC-DAWG83]

Huge strawberry farm, pick your own or buy buckets of freshly picked strawberries, about 10 miles away. Growing strawberries here would be like taking coal to Newcastle.

HOTD trivia: Strawberries are neither berries nor fruit. Bonus HOTD trivia: bananas are berries.

[Rogasingingdawg]

Hanging plastic repurposed bottles or the like are yer fren Roga

something like this


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Cool idea!

[Sugarhilldawg]

All kinds of critters(deer, squirrels, chipmunks etc) will eat all of them before you can , we go to Jaemor in Lula, BTW they have great homemade pound cake also

[McDonoughDawg]

All kinds of critters(deer, squirrels, chipmunks etc) will eat all of them before you can
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That has been my experience

strawberries are fairly invasive too, I planted a few in a raised bed a few years ago, they have damn near taken it over.  Chipmunks at my casa eat good.

[UncleJohnsDawg]

I would be having fried chicken for supper if I were you.