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Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
When June Bearing Strawberries are finished for the season, the crop is suppose to be renovated. I'm getting ready to renovate again this year. Does anyone else do this? I don't recall Mel mentioning it in the book, rather, one method he described is to replace all the plants after a couple of years.
Also, this article says up to a quart of strawberries can be harvested from one plant. Really? I don't get that kind of yield! Do you? That line of thinking should've produced 14-16 gallons from my box. The entire box produced just over 2-1/4 gallons or over 8 quarts.
My plants were all different ages though, which affects the outcome as I understand things. Also, they were hastily transplanted together this Spring from different areas into one box after I lost my table top berries over winter. Anyway, I sure appreciated and enjoyed the harvest.
Here is more on renovating :
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1424.html
Also, this article says up to a quart of strawberries can be harvested from one plant. Really? I don't get that kind of yield! Do you? That line of thinking should've produced 14-16 gallons from my box. The entire box produced just over 2-1/4 gallons or over 8 quarts.
My plants were all different ages though, which affects the outcome as I understand things. Also, they were hastily transplanted together this Spring from different areas into one box after I lost my table top berries over winter. Anyway, I sure appreciated and enjoyed the harvest.
Here is more on renovating :
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1424.html
llama momma
Certified SFG Instructor- Posts : 4921
Join date : 2010-08-20
Location : Central Ohio zone 6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
I don't renovate. My strawberries are technically overcrowded, but they are happy and healthy.
I don't think a quart a plant is reasonable, even if you were to pinch off all the daughters. My strawberries are very, very low maintenance, close to zero, are great producers, but I have given them several boxes.
I'll post photos later.
I don't think a quart a plant is reasonable, even if you were to pinch off all the daughters. My strawberries are very, very low maintenance, close to zero, are great producers, but I have given them several boxes.
I'll post photos later.
martha- Posts : 2188
Join date : 2010-03-03
Age : 67
Location : Acton, Massachusetts Zone 5b/6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Well thanks Martha, and if you get a chance to post I'd love to see pics, TIA.
llama momma
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Join date : 2010-08-20
Location : Central Ohio zone 6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
My strawberry patch is in its third year. I planted 4 plants per square foot, and I also renovate by cutting down most of the foliage after harvest, and I try to remove the runners all summer. My yields have averaged one pound per square foot. That's 1/4 pound per plant.
Mikesgardn- Posts : 286
Join date : 2010-03-09
Age : 61
Location : Elkridge, MD (zone 7a)
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
The good…
I've shown (shown off?) this photo before. This is one day's harvest from last year. I've had similar yields this year, but again, I have a lot of space given over to strawberries.
Now here's the bad…or easy, depending on how you look at it!…..
There is no ugly - they're strawberries!
I've shown (shown off?) this photo before. This is one day's harvest from last year. I've had similar yields this year, but again, I have a lot of space given over to strawberries.
Now here's the bad…or easy, depending on how you look at it!…..
There is no ugly - they're strawberries!
martha- Posts : 2188
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Location : Acton, Massachusetts Zone 5b/6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
I have 12 4X4's planted in strawberries, and this year, in 16 days, I've harvested 13 1/2 gallons.
martha- Posts : 2188
Join date : 2010-03-03
Age : 67
Location : Acton, Massachusetts Zone 5b/6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Holy cow that is a heck of a lot of square footage devoted to one crop! But it's hard to imagine getting tired of home-grown strawberries. What do you do with all those strawberries?
Marc Iverson- Posts : 3638
Join date : 2013-07-05
Age : 62
Location : SW Oregon
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
All I can say is wow!martha wrote:I have 12 4X4's planted in strawberries, and this year, in 16 days, I've harvested 13 1/2 gallons.
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Thanks Martha and Mikesgardn, its very interesting to see what kind of harvest others are getting. In a way its a shame the plants use the space for 11 months before producing anything. Wouldn't it be exciting if geneticists did something helpful like develop plants that return a longer harvest period? Nice dream. Anyway I'll be renovating this morning and add compost and worm castings to help them recover from the shock. Then add a little more in late August as kind of a last meal before the long winters nap.
llama momma
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Join date : 2010-08-20
Location : Central Ohio zone 6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
My garden is at our restaurant, so strawberry shortcake, strawberry ice cream, strawberry "cappuccino" - strawberry soup topped with basil foam, strawberry, arugula and goat cheese salad….
martha- Posts : 2188
Join date : 2010-03-03
Age : 67
Location : Acton, Massachusetts Zone 5b/6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Strawberry soup??? Wow, never heard of that. Is it served cold like gazpacho?
Marc Iverson- Posts : 3638
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Age : 62
Location : SW Oregon
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Yes. Mmmmmmmm…..!
martha- Posts : 2188
Join date : 2010-03-03
Age : 67
Location : Acton, Massachusetts Zone 5b/6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Okay, so question - I purchased some late slips from a big-box center and got them planted. They are covered w/ pine straw. But I'm seeing no growth yet.
Should I uncover them until they start putting out leaves, etc.?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks.
Should I uncover them until they start putting out leaves, etc.?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks.
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Yes uncover them and keep them watered while they put down roots.
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Camp, how are your strawberries doing?
martha- Posts : 2188
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Age : 67
Location : Acton, Massachusetts Zone 5b/6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
I lost most of them to the recent harsh winter. I'm trying to propagate what's left. I'm envious of your patch! On the other hand the raspberries are doing great!martha wrote:Camp, how are your strawberries doing?
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
LM, this year (well at least last fall) instead of renovating, I dumped a lot of wood chips on all my strawberry beds. I had read where doing this does the renovation for you. The wood chips help to sort the healthy new ones from the older ones and only the healthy ones come up
I have to say I have been extremely impressed with the size of the strawberries and the overall healthy appearance to the plants. Mine are intermingled JUNE and ever bearing, and they seem to just keep coming.
I have to say I have been extremely impressed with the size of the strawberries and the overall healthy appearance to the plants. Mine are intermingled JUNE and ever bearing, and they seem to just keep coming.
GWN- Posts : 2804
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Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Thanks Sanderson
I love the wood chip and Back to eden concept and I'd like to try it sometime. I renovated and put down compost the other day. I suppose I can source some chips and still add it later on. (?)
I love the wood chip and Back to eden concept and I'd like to try it sometime. I renovated and put down compost the other day. I suppose I can source some chips and still add it later on. (?)
llama momma
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Location : Central Ohio zone 6a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
LM...
A small area of my strawbs were looking poorly, making nice berries, but the plants looked poor, red leaves, small, not healthy..This area got very few chips..
So I have put handfuls of compost between those berries. I will try to post a picture of some of them,
I have to admit I was a bit nervous just covering them with all them chips, and in the spring in some areas I removed some.... afraid that the strawberries would not come through.
But now I am more confident
A small area of my strawbs were looking poorly, making nice berries, but the plants looked poor, red leaves, small, not healthy..This area got very few chips..
So I have put handfuls of compost between those berries. I will try to post a picture of some of them,
I have to admit I was a bit nervous just covering them with all them chips, and in the spring in some areas I removed some.... afraid that the strawberries would not come through.
But now I am more confident
GWN- Posts : 2804
Join date : 2012-01-14
Age : 67
Location : british columbia zone 5a
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
It's been reasonably hot and dry here ..unusually no rain for over four weeks at 14 oC plus some days into the mid 20 o C's .
I've been so busy & getting very tired in muscles , joints and brain with this last stage of the landscaping I didn't water them as much as I should .....consequentially it looks like they have self terminated ... I've now got a sprinkler arm set up over them but it looks like my strawberry season is over for 2014.
Come autumn I'll be moving them into one of the new MM filled high raised beds , as they have been nearly three years in the current position and strawberry root saw fly has started to infect the immediate ground around them .
We did have several decent strawberry & ice cream or cream desserts off them.
Wimbledon tennis fortnight has recently commenced .. usually strawberries are only just coming into season .. ..Evidently at Wimbledon you'd be looking at four strawberries ,. some cream and a glass of reasonable wine for around £ 50 ( $ 75 USD. )
I can't abide tennis so I must have saved a fortune . .
I've been so busy & getting very tired in muscles , joints and brain with this last stage of the landscaping I didn't water them as much as I should .....consequentially it looks like they have self terminated ... I've now got a sprinkler arm set up over them but it looks like my strawberry season is over for 2014.
Come autumn I'll be moving them into one of the new MM filled high raised beds , as they have been nearly three years in the current position and strawberry root saw fly has started to infect the immediate ground around them .
We did have several decent strawberry & ice cream or cream desserts off them.
Wimbledon tennis fortnight has recently commenced .. usually strawberries are only just coming into season .. ..Evidently at Wimbledon you'd be looking at four strawberries ,. some cream and a glass of reasonable wine for around £ 50 ( $ 75 USD. )
I can't abide tennis so I must have saved a fortune . .
plantoid- Posts : 4096
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Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Yum on the strawberry desserts! $75 for 4 strawberries and wine? They must be Royal strawberries!plantoid wrote: We did have several decent strawberry & ice cream or cream desserts off them.
Wimbledon tennis fortnight has recently commenced .. usually strawberries are only just coming into season .. ..Evidently at Wimbledon you'd be looking at four strawberries ,. some cream and a glass of reasonable wine for around £ 50 ( $ 75 USD. )
I can't abide tennis so I must have saved a fortune . .
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
In the process of renovating the strawberry bed and looking at all the empty space. Prime real estate I'm thinking. Has anyone tried planting between the strawberry plants this time of year. I was thinking about dropping in a few bush bean seeds. They are a good companion to strawberries. And you can never have enough green beans! Any thoughts?
lyndeeloo- Posts : 433
Join date : 2013-04-14
Location : Western Massachusetts Zone 5b
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Bush bean would crowd out all the sun and kill the strawberry lants.
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Strawberries, yields, and post harvest care
Ok no beans. Good to know! Thanks Camprn. Any recommendations or must I just leave it empty?
lyndeeloo- Posts : 433
Join date : 2013-04-14
Location : Western Massachusetts Zone 5b
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