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tomakers · March 28, 2007

Feldon,
It is easy to get the daughter plants to take off and you can let more than one grow from a mother. From your pictures I can see that you could grow them a bit closer together and probably get 35 to 40 plants in there. Will they make it through the Houston summer if you do it? Do you want to devote the space to them? As you can already see they need constant care. I haven't grown them for years now but, we used to till under the mothers after the daughters had set their roots and then let grandaughters take over in the tilled space. If you fertilize (organic or not) you can get a lot of strawberries out of a small space.

March 28, 2007	#2
tomakers Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cranberry Country, SE MA - zone 6? Posts: 353	Feldon, It is easy to get the daughter plants to take off and you can let more than one grow from a mother. From your pictures I can see that you could grow them a bit closer together and probably get 35 to 40 plants in there. Will they make it through the Houston summer if you do it? Do you want to devote the space to them? As you can already see they need constant care. I haven't grown them for years now but, we used to till under the mothers after the daughters had set their roots and then let grandaughters take over in the tilled space. If you fertilize (organic or not) you can get a lot of strawberries out of a small space. __________________ I never met a fish I didn't like.