Strawberry update
Took 3 pics today. 1st is small patch up on our high ground. Nice plants, quarter size berries. The 2nd is our patch in our lowland. Soil is 6-6.5 ph and in a flood plain next to a 30' wide creek. When we started the garden near the creek, the dirt was 50-50 sand, dirt. I've added clay, compost ect. Can't go all out as one big flood takes the dirt away. I'm working on a deflector for the current at the front of the garden, should work. Last pic, I snapped the sick plants root. I think the weather and my minerals being a little off may caused this. I believe I will clear the patch, till deep and rob some nice runners from the good patch. The local nursery just had ever berries. I've had good luck making new plants for yrs. And yes in the 42yrs. we lived here I've had to pick beets under water with hip waders more than once. Thanks rockman
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