Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Barbara Money <bmoney9@verizon.net>]

I'm growing Ozark Beauty ever bearers, and this is their second year. I 
got a decent amount of fruit last year, and they bore right up to frost. 
We cut down a pine so it's less shady this year. I'm hoping for more and 
larger fruit. Of course, I'm in New England and we usually get plenty of 
rain. I mulched with straw, and during a recent dry spell this spring, 
watered a few times with the water I soak my minis' hay in. It seems to 
be very nutritious for plants!

Why did you select the Quinalt variety? I got Ozarks because that was 
the only everbearer I knew about at the time, and that most suppliers 
carried. I might have chosen a different one if I knew more, as I 
understand they are not resistant to red stele, though I haven't had a 
problem. Ants and slugs on the other hand...

Barbara M
Foster, RI

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"Animals Are A Gift"