Strawberry status

[alexxkay]

Harvested a bit over a quart of strawberries this morning, and didn't quite finish the garden. That means that we are officially past the point of keeping up ourselves. Anyone who wants to stop by and pick strawberries from our front yard, please feel free. Really, we mean it.

Comments

Re: Mulch and Rot....

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

The ratios weren't especially bad last year. It's just a fact of life about late June, once I fall far enough behind. It's worst when we get an extended period of rain, also.

The top of the garden is ripening first, and fastest, but that's actually the typical pattern, so I'm not sure how much of that is due to different mulching.

Re: Mulch and Rot....

[mothadventures.livejournal.com]

My memory of last year is that the top row was early but the fruit was not as good as other rows -- I thought that perhaps it was getting more sun, but also losing more water to evaporation. That's why I mulched it first.