Can Strawberries grow in a wide bed only 8" deep?

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greenbunny Minneapolis, MN(Zone 4a) Jun 03, 2011

That's it. Can Strawberries grow in a wide bed only 8" deep? It's a few feet long though.

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Carrie Anne

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Easybake Arlington, TX Jun 03, 2011

these are strawberrys doing well in a shallow narrow pot.

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telosphilos Little Elm, TX(Zone 7b) Jun 03, 2011

Mine are doing great in a fairly shallow bit of dirt. There's about two to four inches of dirt, over some newspaper, right on top of our hard clay soil here. They are pretty well fuss free. I just have to occasionally remember to weed while my kids get a snack.

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HoneybeeNC Charlotte, NC(Zone 7b) Jun 04, 2011

We dug up our strawberry bed last fall and threw all the plants in a North East corner where nothing (not even grass) will grow because the ground is rock hard red clay.

Some of them lived!

The bed they came from was only six inches deep. They grew well in this bed, but we got tired of the slugs, sow bugs, squirrels, and birds getting more fruit than we did!

I have other strawberry plants in shallow pots dotted here and there throughout the garden. I haven't watered or fertilized them, but I have noticed that they have born fruit. We have left these for the birds/squirrels to enjoy.

I have concluded that strawberries will grow anywhere under any conditions!

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OutlawHeart81 Albany, NY(Zone 5a) Jun 05, 2011

I posted these questions in another forum and haven't gotten a response so I'll try here. I've heard mixed reviews on whether or not strawberries Are in fact perennial in the sense that they'll bear fruit every year. Someone told me you only get 3 years out of a plant?

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HoneybeeNC Charlotte, NC(Zone 7b) Jun 06, 2011

OutlawHeart81 - I've read that mother strawberry plants should be pulled after their second season because fruit-set declines.

Keep the daughter plants from the first and second year, then pull the first year daughter plants - and so on....

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