How to get big yield strawberries

Using pk 13/14?
Give plenty nutrients?
Using dwc?
Strain?

Any advice please thank you much

My best and biggest berries were grown in extra super soil last summer. My dogs stole most of them though

it's more dependant on the variety you grow than anything.

Checkout the local nursery to to see what variety they carry, That`s for sure. Strawbs are huge feeders so the best mix possible, They run an create new plants when the new plants establish roots snip the leader from the mother plant this will ensure the runner will produce big berries. This also ensures the main plant continues to produce a good crop.

varity dependent is going to be the big thing, as well strawberrys in their first year after transplant never do to well, The fruit buds are actually formed the season before, so a transplant will have the buds but not the established root system to do well.

also get the fruits off the ground, a good number will rot on the vine that way, for a few plants they sell these perferated trays that go around the plant for that purpose.

Also trimming the first years flowers of is standard practice to give the root system a head start, I think even the year after you are susposto cull some flowers, Culling one flower per plant is a sure way to get giants but not very productive from a weight perspective.

Many varitys once established are hardy, I think the ones that send runners like crazy are the most hardy, I have them growing wild under my blueberrys and they grow back year after year with zero effort (just keeping the rabits/birds/turtles away)

Also something about strawberry's attracts a certain type of bacteria that can eventually make your site unproductive, In commercial plantings they use some type of ground fumigation every other year (I think) just rotate crops when posible.


hear is a great strawberry site, that has info. about alot of different varitys
--- http://strawberryplants.org/2010/05/strawberry-varieties/

also Cornel and other agricultural schools put out alot of documents about strawberrys in many states, worth checking into for some semi-local knowledge about conditions.

For the June-bearing varieties (might be the same thing for ever-bearing...except the mowing part!!), you want to mow them after harvest, and give them their biggest dose of fertilizer for the year (8-4-4 type of fertilizer, all organic, dry, soil amendments) the runners will be the most productive plants next year and after a couple of years you want to start pulling the older plants. easy to do in a home garden. In the Spring you use half the amount of fertilizer you used back in July. Strawberries are heavy feeder, hard to over do it.

Budddha said:

My best and biggest berries were grown in extra super soil last summer. My dogs stole most of them though

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totally, my pitbull steals my cherry tomatoes, strawberries, and blackberries off the plant
can't blame her though, especially the tomatoes