Is there anything more summer-y than fresh June-bearing strawberries?
These were my strawberries at the start of the 2009 season. I had purchased 4 varietes — a mix of June-bearing and ever-bearing varieties — in bare-root bunches and planted them in a wine barrel garden. They grew, produced their delicious crop, and then sent out runners which I tacked down with wires to produce more plants for next year. (I am picky though — only the best producers of my favorite varieties got to keep their runners!)
For the winter, I mulched them with a thick coat of fallen leaves from the Japanese Maple tree, which helped them survive the deep Alaskan freeze we got hit with in December of 2009.
In the spring, I decided that the strawberries needed a larger place to grow and spread out, and that is when the Raised Cedar Beds Strawberry Patch project was started. So get ready for spring and build your own strawberry patch along with me! I’ll be posting more about the details in a series of posts to come.
Other posts in this series: Building the Strawberry Beds
Nikole Gipps is a detail-oriented web developer, mud-loving Cornell Aggie, avid gardener, occasional iron chef, patient wife and fun mom of two. You can follow her work at That PHP Girl or see all of her feeds at NikoleGipps.com.
