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Creating And Planting A New Strawberry Patch – And Our Favorite Strawberry Recipes!
Sometimes – you just have to admit that things didn’t work out and try again! Such was the case with our old strawberry bed planting. We love strawberries, and use them in so many of our recipes (you can see some of our favorite at the end of the article). So growing our own is big priority, and our old patch just wasn’t quite working out the way we had hoped! We planted our strawberries a few years back in the area of our first chicken coop. We figured the ground would be fertile, and that by putting them in a shaped bed instead of rows – it would look neat and be fairly easy to maintain. We also opted not to use a fabric or plastic underneath for weed control, thinking we could mulch around plants with the same success in our raised row garden. In short – BAD IDEA! In theory – the plan was excellent for the fertility. Our plants thrived – and so did the weeds coming through them. Without any plastic down underneath – it became nearly impossible to maintain – and planting in a bed space and not rows made them harder to pick as well. We learned a valuable [...]
Source: http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2015/04/12/creating-and-planting-a-new-strawberry-patch-and-our-favorite-strawberry-recipes/
