when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Erni]

Already harvested 5 lbs of strawberries this year. And they really won't start rolling in heavy for 2 more weeks.

Here's today's harvest.

Wow, trully impressed. How many plants and what garden setup?

Here is my meager entry into gardening. My knees are for crap and I did not want to have to keep bending. So a raised bed garden it is. 3x6 feet with 14 cubic feet of dirt. Getting to a late start as the structure took way more time to finish.

[hollohas]

Wow, trully impressed. How many plants and what garden setup?

Simple raised bed. Planted 6 plants in spring 2014. Now they have spread. All of those came from an area 2.5ft x 8ft but they are dense. They are like weeds! They are a chore to keep contained. The runners even try to grow out of my sidewalk.

I gave a friend a dozen that I dug up last year and I transplanted another dozen to a 4x8 bed on the other side of my yard last year too. Both sets of transplants are super healthy this year.

My dozen transplants are completely filling the 4x8 bed now. After this year I'm going to clear all the plants from the 2.5x8 bed and just keep strawberries in the separate 4x8 bed so I don't have to work so hard containing them.

Strawberries don't really get productive until at least the 2nd year. No one gives them a chance. And those clay strawberry pots at all the garden centers are horrible. They are completely wrong for berries and will never let your plants be productive.

Picked another 3.5 lbs from the same 2.5x8 raised bed area today. Will be making jam this week.