Don't Buy Individual Strawberry Plants!

If you're wanting to start your own strawberry patch, definitely check out bare root options before buying individual plants. The price is so much better!!

Are you growing strawberries this year?

A good place to get bare root strawberries:

The mulch I used (first time trying it but I like it):

#shorts #strawberries #gardening #growyourownfood #berry

[Yoyocreative]

I used to work at a strawberry nursery and fruit grower! In the summer, I'd pick strawberries (outside on my knees blazing sun or pouring rain! Weather wasn't the worst part. It was the wasps that crawled INSIDE the strawberries xD)
And during the autumn, we'd harvest pups and grow them in nursery pots until they were big enough to trim and cool.
I once asked if I could take a few for my garden and I got a bundle of 10 everbearing plants of a great variety with high resistance to pests and big sweet berries! I planted them and enjoyed strawberries every summer since! Every other year, I take the pups, grow them up indoors and plant them out in spring. They're still offspring from the ones I got from my job! I worked there as a teenager and I'm turning 32 next month 😊 it's one of the best gifts I've ever had!

[bonniemathews]

I heard you can put red painted stones among the strawberry plants well before you have fruit so curious birds learn that the red things here are not tasty.

[Kalamain]

Better yet... Find a friend who has strawberries and ask them if you can take pups.

Strawberries love to put out plantlets and they WILL prove true.

Also... If you have a strawberry plantation nearby they will often sell plantlets for pennies.

[supershepherd]

I just realized not even plants are vegan, they're out here eating shellfish and blood

[Thi-Nguyen]

Something people should be aware of: June-bearing plants tend to put out a large number of berries at one time that are average to large in size. Ever-bearing plants will produce average to smaller berries over a longer period of time. Flavor isn’t affected usually, but if you want big berries, opt for a June-bearing. If you want berries throughout the late spring through late summer or even early fall in some regions, opt for the Ever-bearing. ☺️

[Smartsometimes]

That is the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say, I hope you can spend time in your garden today. Man that’s awesome,

[Michael_______]

You should plant two different varieties in the same vicinity. You'll most likely get higher yields and have healthier plants with cross pollination.

[LadyV]

❤"I hope you can spend some time in your garden today!" Best thing anyone could ever say to me!

[tylermoore]

Pro tip, pluck all buds before they become strawberries so they plant develops its roots more the first-year your second and third-year strawberries will be much larger and juicier

[pinkcharms]

I bought a strawberry hanging pot for less than $20 at Lowe’s last fall. There were loads of suckers on it. I cut off all the suckers and planted them - some directly in beds and some in pots. About 20+ survived and grew into strawberry plants and I still have the hanging pot with all the mother plants in it.

[Shebrew]

I got two hanging basket plant from lowes that was on the clearance rack & salvaged it. It kept me with tons of berries all summer & fall.

[colesuqs]

My mom planted these in her front yard a few years ago, she puts hay over them in the winter, and then in the spring they grow back bigger, they are a beautiful low maintenance ground cover! I thought she was crazy to do it but she showed me! Lol

( She bought this "patio home" so it only has a small front yard that's a steep hill and no backyard just a patio, so she used her front yard as much as she could. When she bought it it was just dead grass and that's it, now it's got a huge strawberry patch, a big blueberry bush and a raspberry bush, and a peach tree that again I thought she was crazy and it would never bloom cause this is Colorado, but in only 3 yrs that tree gave her more peaches than we could give away last year, ( and they were the best peaches I've ever had!) So her front yard is now this beautiful incredibly aesthetic many fruit producing garden paradise! She's selling this year for three times what she paid 8 yrs ago and the real estate agent said it's because of what she did to they yard that they're able to ask so much!!)

[leiladnd]

My family has a strawberry field and when it's season we can barely save ourselves from drowning in them. It's crazy how much these guys can produce. And how delicious they are.

[BeeKayy]

Didnt spend time in my garden today, but thanks for sharing this moment with us in yours 🍓 💌

[amyinalaska]

Would love to spend some time in my garden today…only problem is it’s covered in 3 feet of snow ☹️Spring has not sprung in Alaska yet.

[Pama]

I pick them out off the ground, shorten their roots and put them right into the place where I want them with little water in hole. After all is planted I just water them one more time. Works every time like a charm and they grow like weeds after.

[starryskeyed]

I love the snap with the dirt poof! Too cute 😂

[anamat]

Great advice! Last summer rabbits managed to enter our orchard and ate all of our strawberries. Greetings from Spain! 💕🌷

[karenbarthold]

Bro, your strawberry bed is gonna be insane in a year!!! Nice. Those things went crazy in my mom’s raised bed and they are massive!

[Bill]

Awesome video! Also if anyone’s interested look up sister branches. Your strawberries can make a lot more strawberries from the sister branches rooting and becoming their own plant.