Ever bearing Strawberries

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KGH
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Can anyone offer some input on planting, growing and harvesting Ever Bearing Strawberries in the fraser valley?
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Grow strawberries on small mounds and mulch with straw or woodchips. Plant them around 10" apart in rows separated by 10". When planting, get the root deeply into the soil keeping the crown exposed.

Expect your first harvest in June / July. Your second harvest will arrive in August and continue until late September.

Cut runners when they appear right after the first harvest and whenever they appear.

Ever bearing varieties that we've grown successfully include: Albion and Seascape. These will yield heavily in the first year if they're grown in rich, well draining soil.

The biggest challenge in the Fraser Valley is the June rains that seem to align perfectly with strawberry harvest season. Growing them commercially for this reason can be a huge challenge forcing some growers to find shelter in greenhouses.
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Danoost wrote: Mon 14-Mar-2022, 16:23
Cut runners when they appear right after the first harvest and whenever they appear.
@Dan, do you do this trim for all plants all the time? I'm learning that local growers expect the most fruit from 2-year-old plants and therefore keep 'refreshing' their strawberry beds to make sure they have young plants. Do you find continued productivity from older plants, if you cut their runners and thereby keep more energy for the parent plant?
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Some commercial growers only get one year from their plants. Others keep them for two years.

In fertile soils you can get continual production of quality berries for many years.

On our market garden, I've found that by the third year they become a tangled mass because it's hard to get all runners. We'll replant them ever couple years.

Only let runners run if you're looking to develop new plants.
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