This is roughly the harvest every other day. Already have a gallon freezer bag full. No complaints here.

Carrots and peppers were kind of a wash last year so we just let the strawberries run rampant. They’re happy as hell and the fruits are have gotten bigger as the plants matured. The left side was clear enough to put beans where the tomato plants used to be. I was planning on skipping tomatoes as well because they got absurdly large and bent their cages, but some of the fallen ones must have seeded because we had 3 little tomato plants shooting up. They’re in separate pots now and hopefully that’ll be more manageable.

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    How do you get strawberry plants to produce so much?? My plant has produced a total of 15 strawberries over the course of 3 years. I want a harvest like yours. Maybe I need to get more plants?

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Honestly no idea. We got a bundle or two that ended up being about 12 individual plants, tossed in a bunch of soil and mixed fertilizer into the top. First year they popped out maybe a dozen or so strawberries, but they also sent out runners and spread like crazy. We designated 1/3rd of the bed to them. End of season last year they had taken over about 1/2 or more of one bed and encroached into the second, and early this year they took off again and now own an entire bed and 2/3ds of the second one. We sprinkled some concentrated fertilizer across the beds and watered the shit out of them but nothing other than that.

  • Trinsec@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    Oh nice! No trouble with snails? I simply cannot have homegrown strawberries because snails and slugs get to them first.

    • iheartneopets@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      So we had this problem, and a plate/shallow saucer filled with beer placed in the bed with the strawberries will help. Slugs/snails will go for the beer instead of the strawberries and consequently get drunk and drown.

  • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    Make some homemade jam. It’s pretty easy if you don’t do a full canning and will use this up quickly

      • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        If you have too much of that you can add liquor as a preservative to make your own cordial.

        It’s funny how many delicious things are methods to save food when you grow too much

        • iheartneopets@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Continuing the thread to say: consider making shrubs from it, too! Basically sugar on fruit for a few days to draw out the juices, then mash it through a strainer, mix in vinegar, let sit for a couple of weeks and voila. So refreshing mixed with soda water and simple syrup. You can get as fancy with the recipes as you want. They’re very cool to do research on!

          • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I’ve been making my own infused vinegars with herbs where you just let them sit together and strained. I was wondered how they made it with fruit. It makes sense to add sugar to turn fruits into juices.

            P.S. to pedantic I was going to say that it isn’t a shrub until you add the soda water, until then its just an infused vinegar. But looking more into it both are shrubs.