The strawberry variety Flamenco is ideal for gardeners who are short of space, or use containers, as it produces lots of sweet, juicy strawberries over a long period.
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Click this link to buy some Strawberry Flamenco plants, which can be planted out in the vegetable garden or grown in pots & containers on the patio.
Cupid is a great variety of strawberry to grow in the garden or in containers.
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Cupid strawberry is:
Click the link below for more details of this book about growing fruit.
Click this link to buy some Cupid Strawberry plants.
The Honeoye strawberry plants were pruned at the end of July. and every leaf was cut off each plant.
Today the row of Honeoye strawberries looks a picture of health.
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Fresh, new, green leaves have grown and the strawberry plants look very healthy.
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Immediately summer strawberries have finished cropping, the old tops are removed. This involves cutting off all the leaves, new and old, and
removing all plant debris. Care must be taken not to injure the crowns
(the central growing point, just above soil level).
This process of removing the leaves prevents the overwintering of botrytis & other pests and diseases.
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The photo below shows the row of Honeoye strawberries. They have
stopped producing fruit, so all the tops have been removed.
strawberry-row
It is easy to raise new strawberry plants from runners. Strawberry runners must originate from a healthy mother plant.
* select a healthy plantlet on a runner, in June or July
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* cut off the runner beyond the plantlet
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* fill a pot with compost. This pot can be buried in the ground, close to the plantlet. If the strawberries are grown under plastic, the pot will have to be kept above ground.
* peg the plantlet to the compost, but leave it attached to the mother plant.
In a few weeks, new plants will be big enough to be planted out as shown in the link.
Most varieties of strawberries produce runners (long stems) which produce plantlets along their length.
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* These runners will sap the energy from the mother plant, and are usually cut off as soon as they are seen.
* But some growers allow them to grow and root between the plants, so that a continuous mat of strawberry plants is formed.
* The runners may be used to propagate new strawberry plants.
The Elsanta table top strawberries planted earlier this year have produced delicious, tasty strawberries in 60 days.
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Intensive strawberry growers can buy strawberry plants which have been ‘programmed’ to be ready in a certain number of days. The young plants are frozen for a certain length of time depending on when they are required to be ready. These plants were called ‘60 day strawberries’, which means that they will fruit 60 days after planting – and they did!
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The strawberry variety Elsanta suits intensive growing, and are the most widely grown variety in Europe. The intensive production involves growing the plants through polythene and feeding them through the water pipes.
These Elsanta 60 day Strawberries are very good quality, and they have not been treated with any chemicals:
The Elsanta 60 day strawberries, planted on table tops this year, will produce more strawberries next year.
Now strawberries are coming to the end of their fruiting season, a few of the new strawberry runners can be allowed to develop. These can be used to plant a new bed. Click the links below for more information:
Strawberries grown in pots are sometimes sour. This is due to the kink in the stem which forms when the stem falls over the sharp edge of the pot.
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To prevent the stems from kinking,wide round pipes can be placed either side of the pots, so that the strawberries gently hang down. If the growth just drops down (& possibly kinks the stem) the strawberries are sour. So it is vital for the round pipe to allow the stems to gently curve over – to stop the strawberries going sour.
ripening-strawberries
Strawberries grown on the ground often have straw under them. This keeps the berries clean, but it also helps the stems hang gently down. This is probably why the strawberries are not sour.
Strawberries came top of the voters favourite fruit award in the Gardeners’ World Awards 2009.
Strawberry Irresistible is one of the sweetest strawberries ever!
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Strawberries came top of the voters favourite fruit award in the Gardeners’ World Awards 2009.
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