growing strawberries, was [Sca-cooks] Plum loco

[Dana Huffman]

There's also the question of watering.  Many of those
strawberry pots don't have very good drainage, so it's easy
to overwater.  Many are terra cotta and thus porous, so if
you're being careful not to overwater you can underwater
pretty easily, too.

Dana/Ximena

--- Druighad at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/18/01 1:41:15 PM Central Daylight
> Time,
> letrada at yahoo.com writes:
>
> << How hot did the balcony get?  I had a south-facing
> balcony
>  for many years and never had much luck with anything
>  because it would all go heat dormant by mid-summer.  And
>  this was in Seattle!  70 degrees outside, but 90 on the
>  balcony; the roof over the balcony trapped all the heat.
>  If the whole plant just sat there and didn't grow or
> have
>  new leaves, this may be your problem.
>
>  Also, bloom booster or fuschia food will encourage
> potted
>  plants to bloom and therefore have fruit.  If the plants
>  grew but you didn't get any fruit, this might help.
>   >>
>
> The air temp stayed about the same as at ground level.
> The plants got new
> leaves  and flowers. They also started growing fruit.
> They were a Fragaria
> Everbearing strawberry. I didn't give them any food
> though, so maybe that was
> the problem.  I do think that maybe they were planted too
> close together,
> since the roots were a little tangled looking.
>
>
> Finnebhir
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