My Strawberry Patch

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Curtis Stone runs a commercial urban farm called Green City Acres out of Kelowna, BC, Canada. His mission is to show others how they can grow a lot of food on small plots of land and make a living from it. Using DIY and simple infrastructure, one can earn a significant living from their own back yard or someone else's.
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[Stella_]

Ok basic rule for strawberry 1 year presorvation.
20 plants per person.
Fresh eating 10.
I have provided my family with 85% of our food for 10+ years as strawberries I grow enough to eat year round.
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[joesoutdoorplaces]

I love all your content, but really enjoy your home garden stuff. Great looking strawberries. Thanks.

[seanpuskas]

We grow a mix of albion and seascape and love them! They produce right through october for us! Technically they are day neutral varieties. Everbearing produce in two or three sets based on the solar cycle vs. one for June bearing. Day neutrals were bred to produce all season. A lot of nurseries mislabel them as everbearing.

[alexweedon]

I really love the home garden! Still love Green City Acres! But I love the new home garden content. It really enriches your channel and to get the prospective of how a master grower like you does there home garden is unlike anything else I know of in this space! You've inspired my garden for two years now. But it's cool seeing you do it! Keep it up. And keep us posted!

[ravmok]

i'm from Jersey UK. I have strawberries plants all around the borders in my garden.... picking easily around a pound of berries everyday for like 20 days now. Only me, the wife and a 6 months old so can't eat them all. Been giving strawberries to neighbours, made jam and froze the rest....

[christinejjones]

Those are the same strawberries that I got! But I didn't get them planted as soon as you so they are still just young... I had to wait for my raised bed to get finished. And I also planted in an offset manner. My bed is 48 inches across and I also have cukes, herbs, carrots, beans and nasturtium in there. Oh, and beets, radishes and bunching onions. It's my first bed, so I'm just getting warmed up! Next year could be really fun, cause I'll add another bed or two.

[WildBillFlysRC]

Thank you for a strawberry video, Curtis. I'm in Southern Arizona and second year of berries in raised beds, started with 12 and now have 60+ plants. i cover mine with a simple pvc hoop and shade cloth 50% during the day and uncover at night. i still water by hand twice a day. would love to do a drip system... one day i will. always great content.

[DS-cysz]

We did a more dense planting and have encouraged self propagation in our 3' x 40' strawberry bed. We have seen great results with the addition of fresh compost at the start of the season and the addition of straw to keep the weeds down. Thanks for the update.

[gapey]

Seascape is one of the varieties I'm growing too. Puget Crimson is another one and is my favorite this year. The berries are humungous. I just posted a tour of my strawberries the other day.

[joshsimpson]

I'm propagating strawberries for a patch to!!

But I'm the squash and okra king right now.

I need your paperpot transplanting system for my no till.

II use the woodchip method with high density planting, with fish emulsion and cow manure amendments. The fish and cow poo are free due to my other work.

I need to start everything in my greenhouse. I'm in central Texas, super hot right now.

Almost a year ago now you inspired me to persue urban farming.

Thanks

[joannebockus]

Wow, wish I'd had this info when I planted my plants from Starks. Well, if they put out runners I can fill in. Your plants look great.

[ThePlantBasedHomestead]

We have the same strawberries in our garden and there is NOTHING that the grocery store strawberries have on the tasty sweet strawberries we grow. We LOVE them. Like you said, we're eating so much that we're not going to have enough either. Maybe I'll propagate more like you. Great idea!

[gangaskan]

looks great curtis. i love the ever bearing strawberries over the june bearing. what you explained happened to me then the next year i over planted and its been going like clockwork for about 2 years so far.

[wadebradley]

Great advice about the spacing for foliage cover!

[cxtralu]

I believe the reason for the wide spacing recommendation at planting time is so that in the second year (when you are supposed to start to crop, after you've removed the flowers in the first year) you have a full strawberry patch consisting of the second year plants and their runners. Last year I planted 4 new strawberry varieties much closer than recommended in a new strawberry patch and this year especially the Senga Sengana are heavily congested and, on top of that, they are sending out runners.

[KerrinJIH]

My favorite way to use my runners for propagation is to fill peat pots with compost/soil and sit them under the end of the runner. Let them root, then transplant. But, I’m lazy! Lol

[matprather]

Seascape I think is getting to be the main one everyone seems to be planting. I tried to get them this spring and most places were sold out or had order limits. I wanted 1200 but could only order 1000. They are so amazing with fairly large berries for be a day neutral and last year they kept producing until the first frost in the first year being planted and were the first to produce before the June bearing.

[seth]

Closing on a property next week, leaving the condo life. A raised bed of strawberries (or any berries!) is goal #1 for next spring. Thanks for the vid.

[madhattersartstudio]

OMG i can not believe your strawberries. I did 1 lonely strawberry plant- the little guy was doing so well until we had 3 days of 106 degrees heat. I cut back the the little guy to his stub and now getting a small green shoot. He is under my awning now. I was told here in Texas only 2-3 hours sun the rest shade for plants like mint and strawberries. Zone 8 El Paso, Texas- what do you think???

[johnfalconi]

Can you keep us updated with your strawberries?
I wanna have a pretty garden like yours