Maybe it was merely the effects of the draught here
last year, but some of the plants were small with small dry berries. I really
should see what they are going to do this year, and water appropriately if the
weather is dry again. The plants have been in place for about 5
years.
I did pull some of the runty looking plants and set
new runners to root in their place last year. Maybe the plants were just getting
old.
Bill
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Strawberries
Happy Spring all!! About the strawberries. What makes you think
these are virus-infected? Are they exhibiting disease? I've had
my strawberries in the same place for 15 years, and pull the entire
patch every 3-4 years because the strawberries get smaller etc. I know this
is basic, but when you said "years old strawberry patch", it seemed to
me that it might be just age. Barbara Harrick Zone
6b
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3 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:27:43 -0500 From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net> Subject:
Re: [NAFEX] strawberries, replanting To: Bill Russell <shaman8@verizon.net>, North American
Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Message-ID:
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On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Bill
Russell wrote:
> 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? > > ? > Bill Zone 5 > > ? 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+dis
ease+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
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