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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: Bill Russell <shaman8@verizon.net>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries, replanting
  • Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:27:43 -0500


On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Bill Russell wrote:

<x-tad-smaller>It seems that my years old strawberry patch is declining from, probably, virus problems. So I plan to spray with weed killer and replant. How long should I wait before replanting?</x-tad-smaller>
 
<x-tad-smaller>Bill Zone 5</x-tad-smaller>
 
Can you plant them somewhere else for a while?

Current recommendations seem to be for at least two or three years' rotation inbetween strawberry plantings.

here's an example:

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:3eI9x5za9fkJ:www.newenglandvfc.org/sessions_05/strawberry/Crop%2520Rotations%2520for%2520Long-term%2520Success%2520with%2520Strawberries.pdf+strawberries+rotation+disease+control+cornell&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

Some people are recommending brassicas in the rotations for disease control: an example of this:

http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/PDIS-91-8-0964?cookieSet=1&journalCode=pdis


--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly



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