
Crocus - the first flowers of spring 2008
Without intense care no harvest. Normally at least a daily inspection with hands on is needed. Every few days a more accurate care and control to hand select / remove snails or remove larger weeds that might cover up the strawberry plants. The plant needs lots of hot sunshine during the period between blossom and strawberry harvest.
Small weeds and grass actually would be beneficial to have between the plants. Most farmers lack to courage to let all the small weeds and grass survive. As you can see on most of the pictures here, the fields are usually completely cleaned up from all other growth.
Here in Trinidad most strawberry fields are sprayed regularly, weekly or more often with chemicals - fungicide and pesticide or as seen here, the toxic chemicals are added to the flooding water used for irrigation once or several times a week.
In true mixed culture as common at home in private garden, there is absolutely NO need for any chemicals of any kind nor for any fertilizer! Strawberries are rugged plants and survive / prosper easily all year if planted amidst all other flowers and plants of your organic garden. Just see how nature does it - wild strawberries grow in wild grass and forest without any chemicals or fertilizer.
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
Yellow flowers
The back to back gardens are a unique feature of the flower show at Tatton Park and they are arranged in groups of four all over the showground, what I like about this is that as I walk around the show I stumble across a square of gardens and keep seeing ones I haven't seen before, also you can get a really good look at them because they're nicely spread out. Out of 27 back to back gardens at the show, five were awarded the coveted gold medal, best in show went to Reaseheath Alumni with '5 a day with hidden play' a garden dedicated to growing and eating plenty of fruit and veg.
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