First garden update: strawberry patch, 21x17.5 feet, planning to build a walk-in cover for it for bird netting. Last year's patch produced about 20 pounds of strawberries, and a thousand strawberry plants, and the resulting new patch could yield 100 pounds next year, and several thousand runners! This year it felt like I was holding back on eating the strawberries, and they are sooooo gooooood!, so it will be interesting to see what happens with several times the strawberries! TIP: if you want a thousand strawberry runners, don't clip them, set them when you see them, and leave them attached to the mother plants, also, don't accidentally uproot them by the runners. Catnip plants will protect strawberry plants and their runners through the summer heat and the winter cold. Unfortunately, catnip will also tend to take over the strawberry patch, unless you have an army of cats to keep them in check. If you have no strawberry plants, growing strawberries from seed works, just collect the extra pieces you get from trimming and culling the fruits, mix them with the top inch of soil in a planter or in the garden. Collect the pieces with a paper towel, and soak off the seeds in a bucket of water, and pour into plant potters. It is possible to get different varieties doing this, if you have a hybrid. (I only did this with strawberries grown in my garden, but it may work with store strawberries) It will take a year for the plants to develop, and even the young plants can survive out ...
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