Re: wild strawberries

martha 6/9/2010, 11:55 am

I suspect what you have might be an ornamental strawberry. They have pink flowers, they have a few strawberries that are tasteless, and I am in the process of researching if they are actually invasive or merely, ahem, "vigorous". (I am getting conflicting info so far in my web searches.)

And, Megan, so far my yellow alpines are still seeming hardier than my red ones.

Megan 6/9/2010, 6:36 pm

[quote="martha"
And, Megan, so far my yellow alpines are still seeming hardier than my red ones.[/quote]

Are you growing both the red and yellow from seed, martha? I am only doing the yellow from seed; I was given a mature red strawberry plant. You may win that penny yet! wild strawberries - Page 2 Icon_wink

martha 6/9/2010, 7:08 pm

I am doing both, but my red ones were started in March. I have two plants barely growing their fourth set of leaves, and still smaller than a pencil eraser. My yellow ones, started in late April, resulted in about 13 seedlings, and they are significantly bigger than the red ones.

Megan 6/9/2010, 7:10 pm

martha wrote:I am doing both, but my red ones were started in March. I have two plants barely growing their fourth set of leaves, and still smaller than a pencil eraser. My yellow ones, started in late April, resulted in about 13 seedlings, and they are significantly bigger than the red ones.

I lost a number of my yellow ones; I think I have about 5-6 left. They are pretty tiny still, the leaves are probably small pencil eraser sized.

martha 6/9/2010, 10:12 pm

Didn't someone on this thread say growing them is easy? wild strawberries - Page 2 Icon_scratch

Megan 6/9/2010, 10:16 pm

martha wrote:Didn't someone on this thread say growing them is easy?

My seed packet says they are easy to grow. I guess they need to better define "grow"!

martha 6/9/2010, 10:22 pm

But if we succeed, won't we feel clever!

Megan 6/9/2010, 10:27 pm

Absolutely! Smile

Jola 6/9/2010, 10:34 pm

It was I who said they are easy to grow. I think that the secret of successful growing might be in the soil. I used regular growing mixture, without fertilizer of course, by Miracle Grow. They must grow in the original soil until they are big enough to safely transplant. Another method would be to put seeds directly in the soil outside. When I grew alpine strawberries seeds in vermiculite they stayed tiny and eventually died before they got bigger.
I strongly suggest sowing them at this time of a year directly outside.

Megan 6/9/2010, 10:46 pm

I sowed mine directly, in Mel's mix.

Jola 6/9/2010, 11:09 pm

Hmm, try to sow in poorer, regular soil. I never tried to sow them in Mel's mix, so I don't know what might happen - obviously it didn't work.

Megan 6/18/2010, 8:43 pm

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