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Posted by agnes_wa WA Aust (My Page) on Tue, Sep 27, 05 at 23:41
| Please - I am desperate for strawberry growing tips. I have planted about 12 plants and they don't seem to be growing. I planted them in compost. I have thrived them. I don't know if I should put manure around them.
Any advice most appreciated.
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RE: Strawberry Tips
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When did you plant them?
I'm just wondering if it's a bit soon for any growth, I'm not sure how warm it is at your place but it's only just warming up here. I wouldn't expect much to happen for a few weeks yet.
It's sounds as though they've received lots of tender loving care so I'm sure you'll be rewarded. |
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Strawbs won't say no to more manure, as long as it's not raw. It sounds to me like they've been well fed though. They like a good mulch around them too. I've used straw (very traditional) and ti-tree mulch. They liked both. The big plus is that the strawbs stay fairly clean.
Patience! |
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| As Raymondo says, strawberries love lots of feeding but be careful you don't overdo nitrogen or you may get more leaves than fruit. As Sarah says, it is possibly still too cold over your way. I don't know what your temps are. My strawberries are fruiting beautifully at the moment but it is warmer up here. I don't do a lot to mine except add compost, manure, mulch well and water when dry. If the fruit start getting small, I water with liquid manure or similar. |
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| when did you plant them? they take a little while to settle in and develop some roots and then theyll take off. the weather is warm enough for them and mine have fruit coming along, but if youve only just planted them, youll just need to give them a bit longer to get going. |
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| too much tlc?? I got half a dozen runners last year from a mate and just stuck them in. As they created new runners _ transplanted them around the garden they are growing in full sun, under a palm, in my "wet lands"(run off from neighbours - where my fernery and brahmi patch is, competing healthily with a vigorous patch of mint, growing under fruit trees - anywhere there is a bare patch of soil. The crop isn't great - about 20 strawbs a day- but they are nearly all big and delicious they get an occassional feed of seaweed spray but that's all. the strawbs in the wet lands and under the palm don't get any regular watering - the others - get what the vegie patches get. |
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| Thanks all. Maybe it is the weather. We're a month and a half into spring, and we are still getting rainy windy days, with temps not much over 20 degrees during the days and around 10 degrees at night. I will try and be patient. 20 strawbs a day?? That would be heaven. Maybe there's room for more !! |
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