I’m a new gardener in San Francisco where it’s still 50-60s and foggy. Growing seascape and Albion’s. I’ve just planted some roots randomly and my wife threw in some flowers. Location was chosen because it got the best light 5-6 hours on a good day. Now they are growing. Any advice visually or in general. In terms of pest, fungus, bugs, location , etc
Hi! New strawberry gardener here dealing help. My plants seem to be producing quite a bit of fruit, but it looks burnt and shriveled. I don’t know the variety. I thought it was leather rot, so I cut all the fruit off, but it is coming back the same. Thoughts? Advice? Southern CA zone 9a
Had to share my little strawberry harvest from my balcony garden.
what’s going on with my strawberries! they looked good at one point and now they are so sad
Last year I bought some potted pineberry plants, it was quite late in the season and sadly I did not get the chance to get some fruit.
They survived the extremely cold winter without any cover besides the mulch I applied(used wood shavings from out button quail bedding).
Now they are finally fruiting! Tried a few but there are a lot of unripe ones so looking forward to the next few days/weeks.
They are covered with nets like all the other strawberry beds in my garden because of the advanced bird warfare going on.
As a bonus: they are sending runners like crazy so I am forcing them to root in pots and containers. Then I will share them with friends, I am sure it will make them very happy.
If you get the chance to taste them or grow them yourself they are worth it, very interesting flavor.
I got a potted strawberry plant last year, split it into three and put it in my raised bed. I didn’t do anything to it before winter came. This summer they have doubled in size!! Opie and I go out every morning and pick some. We also eat a couple while picking as a reward of course!
Does anyone know what’s wrong with my raised bed strawberries? They get full sun for at least 8 hrs a day and have all fresh soil, mulch and amendments. All the first berries are coming out splitting or deformed and a lot of them have this weird mold-looking stuff on them.
They come from underground and make tunnels right under the berries 😭
I have a box of Y shaped sticks to lift the berries off the ground (Mulching doesn't help)
I hope you don't know what I'm talking about....
The muffins have taken over the breakfast table around here, and I can't get enough! Between the Joan Crawford Muffins and the Ann Blythe muffins, in addition to the very muffin-like Betty White Applesauce Loaf and Orange Loaf, I feel like I need to bake a batch each week. They're just so good with coffee!
These muffins were very easy to make, and like some of these other vintage muffins and loaves, they do have a bit more baking powder than a modern recipe might have.
That's what makes them firm and so good with coffee, kind of how a scone is good with tea. For this batch of muffins, I thought it would be fun to add mostly (cut-up) strawberries, and a few blueberries. With 4th of July coming up, and all the strawberries available at the store right now, it seemed like a good idea.
I baked them at 400 for exactly 25 minutes and they came out beautifully! It made 12 muffins.
The strawberries in the muffins gives them moist pockets of sweet flavor and with butter, this can't be beat!
So I'm trying to figure out what's what because when I first ordered my bare roots I ordered both San Andreas and Seascape. One (I think) said they do well in the heat, which was why I picked it, because sometimes we get heat waves and/or just generally hot & humid bouts throughout summer here (upstate NY, 5b I think).
Anyway, they arrived bagged separately, but not labeled as to which group is which. In the raised bed (6ft x 2ft) I have them grouped into "boxes". I have 4 Charlotte, then the next 4 (blue straws) are either San Andreas or Seascape, the next 4 (red straws) are the same deal, and the final 2 are last year's leftovers (one is definitely my Mara Des Bois & the other is an unknown). They're sending our runners like crazy lately. I was originally clipping them off, but I gave up because they just keep sending them.
This berry came from a blue straw plant & tastes like your average strawberry. Decent flavor but a little tart. Any idea which of the two varieties it likely is?
it is healthy and has lots of new leaves, but it won’t produce any flowers. any advice?
Does anyone know what could be causing this red color? This is an Albion strawberry planted in a Greenstalk planter. It’s in the top tier and I did have the planter covered with bird netting while I was away for a week so maybe it’s stressed? We also had 3 hard rain storms within the past week (now heading into a heat wave). I haven’t fertilized except with BioTone and earthworm castings when I planted.
Trying to figure out these strawberries in general. Mostly the plants look good but some just keep putting out runners or growing leaves. I’ve only gotten like 5 fruits (I did miss a few while I was away for a week).
This dude hangs out in my garden eating pest and hiding from the dragonflies.
So i have a bunch of everbearing strawberry plants in ground along my fence that I got so so many berries off of early spring, my son and I were out there every morning picking at least 8-10 a day. I know they take a break in between but when should I expect the next round of blooms to start coming in? I check for and clip any runners i see every morning to keep the plants focusing their energy on themselves rather than the runners. They were planted in ground last spring, in zone 7a.
I trimmed my strawberry plant over a week ago now & now it’s growing like this. Am I growing a whole new plant?
I bought three small plants about a month ago. Some had flowers I plucked. The plant grew a lot in the last month. I repotted eight runners and noticed a new bloom. Excited, I took many photos. When zooming in, I saw a nasty thing on the pollen. I tried to remove it with grass, but failed and broke a pollen bud. I tapped from underneath, but it fell. Am I stupid? Did I kill my only fruit? Also the bottom front has two crowns in one I hadn’t noticed but I’m scared to separate while the plants are fruiting? Any advice? I’m in zone 6b btw and haven’t fertilized yet 🫣
These are my first June bearing strawberries. After years of growing only everbearing varieties, I'm so impressed by their size! And they are so sweet, even the pink ones.
These are the more or less "average", the biggest ones are already gone 😁
I started with 4 plants, tried them last year, and quickly made up my mind to plant two more beds.
Sonata is an Elsanta – Polka cross.
Made my first batch of strawberry preserves. I used the recipe, Strawberries-On-Top Preserves from Ball recipe book. It’s so tasty! The fresh lemon is a game-changer to the flavor profile.
This strawberry plant just recently started seeing some rust like browning on one leaf. I think it might be fungal but I’m not sure. Anybody know how to handle this?