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Infinite strawberry plant hack (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by sexywheat@hexbear.net to c/gardening@hexbear.net

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So I bought 20 strawberry plants a few months ago from someone in town and decided to do some experiments. I planted some in soil, some I put in my outdoor hydroponic NFT system, and these four I plopped into two of my indoor tabletop hydroponic DWT systems.

I decided to just let the mfs grow to see what happened and look at all those fucking runners strangelove-wow they won't stop growing, I can't keep up it's never ending. These have been by far the most successful (although still no flowers/fruit yet lol).

So I've been planting some of them in soil to produce new independent plants:

Others I might transfer to my NFT system (I still have a few open slots there). Still not sure how I'm going to manage overwintering the hydro ones I have outside but I'll figure something out.

If you're curious this is the system in the picture, they're awesome I have three of them in total, but you could easily make your own much cheaper with a plastic insert, some spray paint, an aquarium air stone, timer and light.

I am going to be the undisputed king of Strawberryland greensicko-laser

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I planted about 30 plugs of strawberries that I got from a friend who was renovating their strawberry patch about 5 years ago and now there are literally thousands of plants in the yard. They are a great plant, really vigorous groundcover, they spread and propagate easily, and obviously the berries are great. They are really good for low quality beds like woodchips/hugelkultur because the moms can feed the daughters while they get established. Last year we picked something like 50-75 kg of fruit and the only upkeep I've done aside from picking has been pulling out plants to give away to others.

Braiding sweetgrass has a great section on the generosity of strawberries, 100% true. I also like how their habit encourages you to witness the garden. The flowers and green berries pop out above the leaves to show you where they are, but as they ripen and get heavy they sink down and hide. You won't find the best berries unless you get down low and turn over the plants, then who knows what you'll find.