Good Morning!
This time of the year yields some of natures best !
Lilacs for an incredible smell and Strawberries for an Incredible taste !
I want to talk Strawberries today, one of my favorites .. Fruit ?
Surprisingly, eggplants, tomatoes and avocados are botanically classified as berries. And the popular strawberry is not a berry at all. Botanists call the strawberry a “false fruit,” a pseudocarp. A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle.
The Strawberry: A Multiple Fruit
Click HERE To read all about it .
Here in the western part of Nova Scotia we are blessed with rich soil and some pretty good growing weather for Strawberries.
As a kid growing up in East Pubnico, my ” Late” Father had a huge Strawberry Patch .
Growing Strawberries takes a bit of work to keep the pest’s away and the plants healthy and producing top notch berries.
I think everyone who has grown Strawberries has their own little things they do as individual growers that helps their berries.
My dad used to use ” Salt Hay” to place over the plants in the winter months to protect them , he would always tell me that the ” Salt Marsh Hay”
was best to keep the plants healthy. ” who was I to say otherwise” we always ended up with Great berries .
Planting NEW plants we would always snip the blossoms for the first year to give the plant strength for the following year , we would also stop the ” Runners ” so the plant didn’t always expand it’s energy reproducing .
Those were just a few of My personal experiences with growing Strawberries .
PLANTING, GROWING, AND HARVESTING STRAWBERRIES.
June-bearing varieties bear fruit all at once, usually over a period of three weeks.
Everbearing varieties produce a big crop in spring, produce lightly in the summer, and then bear another crop in late summer/fall.
PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK FOR ALL YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STRAWBERRIES !
Thank you for taking some time out of your day to read my show page.
I hope you get to Grow & Enjoy some Strawberries of your own.
Stay Safe and Be Good To One Another. ( Hartley Reede )
