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zucchinigrower Wellsville, NY Jul 13, 2010

I am a new gardener. This year is my second garden. I am adept at growing slugs, snails, zucchini, pumpkins, lettuce and snow peas. While I am grateful for this I would like a small strawberry patch. I bought 2 flats of plants last summer and put them in and got about 10 strawberries. This summer the plants are HUGE but there were about 5 quarts of berries and I am over run with daughter plants.
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!. I understand that some plants are "ever bearing" and will produce 2 or 3 crops. I found some advertised online but all the places offering them have horrid reviews on this and other websites. The top listed companies on this website do not seem to offer strawberries. Where can I order strawberry plants with some faith in getting something alive?
2. Should I buy seed and try that instead?
3. Is the ever bearing strawberry a good thing to go for or should I be more patient with what I have and keep hacking off the daughter plants?

You likely need to know that I am in Western New York state. My garden is the site of the old above ground pool so the soil is sand and 10 years of dumped leaf compost. It's soft and full of worms.

Thanks for your help.

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CountryGardens Lewisville, MN(Zone 4a) Jul 13, 2010

Start here for plants. https://indianaberry.com/
They will come dormant. Plant them & they will green up quick.
For home garden get Seascape. You will have berries most of the summer. Let the runners root & then you can move them to make your patch bigger. Also the daughter plants are the plants that will have berries the next year.
Indiana Berry will include a booklet on growing when you order plants.
Bernie

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Ray4852 Arcade, NY(Zone 5a) Jul 14, 2010

what kind of strawberries are you using. I cut off all runners on my strawberries. I want the mother plant to produce berries for me. I'm using the hydro stacker way of growing strawberries. in our part of country strawberries are done by late June if you have them planted in the ground. good berries to use are honeoye, annapolis. I use seascape in my stackers. my berries produce for me up until I get a frost.


http://www.millernurseries.com/

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