need advice on growing strawberries
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Topic: need advice on growing strawberries
Posted By: BaAsKa
Subject: need advice on growing strawberries
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 4:48pm
Wev just put a strawberry plant in the vege garden and got back from camping for the weekend to find some nice red strawberries......FULL OF ANTS!!!!!!  ...what can i do to prevent this????
Iv grown SBs before but in a pot and i dont recall having this problem!
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 5:08pm
| no idea but i also recommend keeping cats away from them...every time we grow them the cats are caught eating them!!! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 5:19pm
| yeah we have put water bottles all the way around the garden ledge!! not sure if it works though!! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 6:29pm
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You will need to spray then with a bug control. We use one that does all garden bugs (the name I can't quite remember at the moment sorry). If you want to protect them from the birds you will need to cover them right up with netting. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 8:15pm
| oh gez! they sound like a hassle to grow! lol |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 8:54pm
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It's not that hard, I thought I had a pic of how ours are, but I don't. So i'll take one tomorrow and show you what ours are like.The plants we have in are about 5 years old and have been moved house as well, and still going strong. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 9:24pm
much easier to buy 2 punnets for $5 now...or in a few weeks 4 punnets for $5....
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Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 1:09am
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if you have them in a pot then the base usually has water in it ie no ants
We just picked our 1st tiny strawberry yesterday, now need to keep the water up to them and beat the girls to picking them. no prob with ants down here just birds and children!! ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 8:42am
thatl be cool to see a photo mummy_becks
hehe bombshell it is easier to buy them...and we do! lol but we planted them for something fun in the garden for Bay and Daddy to do 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 8:46am
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if you dont want to spray then you will have to find the ants nest and destroy them from there...
we dont have ants on ours but trying to get them before the kids and the birds do is nearly impossible... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 8:55am
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my son only likes growing them but hates eating them so they are safe from sticky fingers! lol
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 10:04pm
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Here are the photos of our strawberry patch (don't mind the weeds on the grass I am waiting to mow the lawns)
and then close up
Hope that helps you. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 21 November 2007 at 8:10am
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Nice patch Becks, should get a good yield from that
Around the base of the plant i put hay or a little bit of grass clippings to hold the fruit off the ground & to keep the soil moist & warm Unfortunately we never get a decent yield, they are stolen by sticky fingers, and sometimes, they ain't even red!! ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |