r/strawberry

There are also a few smaller ones growing below the bigger leafs

Thank you for your help in advance <3

Too many strawberry plants! Time to cut the runners.

They were doing better than fine, lots of green leaves, some strawberries, etc. We went through a heatwave, my friend forgot to put them in the shade so some of the leaves got a little fried but I was confident that I could fix it.

A week and a half ago, they suddenly turned black😭 the fruits and leaves got all crispy, black stems.

It was too hot to put them outside so I kept them inside. I think the problem is that I watered with fertilizer the day before the heatwave so they had to sit in the soaked soil for a while. Overwatering or fertilizer burn, I don't know.

I fertilize once a week but I don't put a lot and dliute it in water, and I do bottom watering (except for the red one, it doesn't have any holes but it's a terracotta pot and it has rocks at the bottom for draining)

Please tell me I can save them😭

Southern CA strawberries. Strawberries have such great flowers. I didn’t know that before and I am surprised I don’t see more things with the flower on them.

Hi gardeners,

i have 20 strawberry plants which my toddler enjoys very much picking the fruit from, but recently a gamba (local possum species in my country) made a habbit out of eating it all at night, shitting the lawn and then leaving.

What i tried so far and failed:

-movement sensor light around the strawberries

-putting the strawberries on 1m pvc pipes so it could not climb there

-adding an "animal repellent noise" generator thingy that also acts on movement

-planted garlic around

-encasing the ripening berries in a 3d printed cage. They just chew through it (PETG material)

-removing all branches and plants that give the animal easy access into the yard

-chased it at night once and threw an orange in its direction (not on it, i don't want to hurt it) in hopes it would be scared to come back

Next i will put up a night camera to learn how it climbs up to the plants.

Is there something else i can try? Besides getting a dog? The animals are protected in my country, i can not harm or trap them.

(the poop on the lawn might be from the neighbours cats, not from the gambas. If those cats would put half their energy they put into patroling the garden for whatever they do there into chasing gambas instead that would be much more helpful)

There a very few strawberry cultivars or varieties that flower on unrooted runners. Hawaii 4 is one that does. Can you imagine a hanging basket with flowers and then fruit on the runners cascading off the basket? Here, I am rooting a runner that is flowering.

Why are the new leaves on my plant turning purple, and why is it flowering so close to the base/centre of the plant? Whats going on 🥲

I bought 4 everbearing baskets at Walmart this year. They were in the red pots I needed to do red, white, and blue baskets around the front porch. I had geraniums in the white and petunias in the blue this year. Next year they will all be strawberries and then I will propagate into red, white, and blue 20 gallon tubs I got at Menards.