Strawberries

I posted in May about planting 150 strawberry plants at One Love Farm. It was quite a job to prep the bed and get all the plants in and established. But, next year there will be tons of the juicy fruit in June.

This time of year, strawberries send out their runners. That is how they reproduce. You're familiar with most plants that reproduce by seed, like tomatoes or eggplant. Other plants reproduce by basal shoots like raspberries and cherry trees. Still others like ginger and asparagus reproduce using rhizomes.

The shoots will produce a new strawberry plant next year. The nice thing about these new shoots is that once they root, you can cut the runner and place the new strawberry plant anywhere, even in a brand new bed.