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anyone grow berries? wife wants me to plant some strawberries and I was 2 different types at the depot. just wondering if anyone grows them and if so what kind?

blueberries I wouldn't do cause I go close to where I live and pick them at blueberry farms. cheap too something like $3-4/lb or so. and they are the best this way too. gotta do it if you can.
 
I'm growing strawberries this year. I just have 1 hanging basket with 6 'Sequoia' strawberry plants. I got them from home depot in peat pots with 3 to a pot. Washed all the dirt and stuff off the roots and transplanted to coco coir/perlite. I trimmed off all the blossoms that day too, and just the other day I harvested my 1st two ripe berries :)
 
For this year I'm trying Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Huckleberries, Gooseberries, Sunberries, Wonderberries, & Goji Berries.
Grapes too, if those count.

My FIL grew an Everbering Strawberry for years. Those things grew tons of 2-3 inch berries. I wish he knew the name of them. He got them off a friend who had done the same. I guess the bad thing is they spread pretty fast.
 
I have a strawberry plant or 2 that comes up every year but hardly get anything cause of rabbits but i don't really care
 
I've given up on my goji berries, and I had to till in most of my strawberries last year, but I'm starting some "Fresca" strawberries in pots, and I plan on relocating a lot of my raspberries out of my main garden to give me more pepper and tomato room. I might also try some blueberries again too if I can clear a good spot for them. I've also got lots of wild raspberries and blackberries as well as wild grape growing everywhere, but the grapes are a pain in the butt and choke out other trees.
 
Poisonette said:
For this year I'm trying Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Huckleberries, Gooseberries, Sunberries, Wonderberries, & Goji Berries.
Grapes too, if those count.
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What are Sunberries like?
 
My folks grew strawberries when I was growing up, always had 2 kinds Junebearing and everbearing. The June ones were early, the rest had berries all summer long. I can't tell you names but I do know if you want berries all summer to plant both kinds.
 
I've considered doing raspberries. After working in Northern Michigan's copper mines from 1920 to 1967, my grandfather grew raspberries for the next 20 years that he sold to a restaurant. The entire backyard of my grandparents' house was filled with raspberry bushes, probably a good 10-12 rows around 100 feet long. Not sure how well they would grow here in Texas, but I did see that the local Wal-Mart sells them in their garden center.
 
Ciao all-

We have Everbearing Strawberries here that spread and come back every year with just Fall leaves spread over them for mulch to protect from frost and snow.

We also have a huge Oregon Thornless Blackberry hedge that I'm training along a low hurricane fence. It's crazy productive and I still have cupcake tubs full of blackberries from last year in the freezer.

Our Golden Raspberries are a huge hedge on the fence line next to the main tomato bed. Duane built a "corral" for these because they do have thorns and they like to "escape" and scratch up the tomato plants. I get about 5 gallons of berries each year from these.

We have a Mulberry Tree in the front yard. This thing is also crazy productive, but the berries are rather insipid-tasting, so I leave most of them for the birds and squirrels so they leave my cherry tree alone. They seem to prefer the mulberries and I'm good with that. :)

My low-producers are my Black Currant and Blueberry Bushes. I'm not quite sure what the deal is here. I'm going to bend the ears of some nursery people this Spring and try to figure out how to increase production of both of these woody shrubs. I'm also pondering getting a few Red Currants because they make excellent preserves and glazes for grilling/roasting especially pork and game birds.
 
goosberries, raspberries, muleberries - white, red, purple, and pink..... I love berries...

my favourite are the muleberries...deee lish

i have four trees in the yard that are twenty years old...
 
Hotpeppa said:
blueberries need a high acidic soil for good productivity...
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And they also need their buds picked for the first few years apparently, so they focus on growing. If you let them flower in their first 2 years, productivity is reduced for the rest of its life from what I believe.

I bought a plant from Bunnings here in Aus, and popped some slow release acidic fertiliser in. Its growing ok, so when the weather cools down, I'll ensure to be picking the buds for a few years.

I'm also attempting to utilise my quad stacker pot for 12 strawberry plants. The missus and the kids absolutely love fresh strawberries, I wonder if I can be converted ;)
 
MiLK_MaN said:
And they also need their buds picked for the first few years apparently, so they focus on growing. If you let them flower in their first 2 years, productivity is reduced for the rest of its life from what I believe.

I bought a plant from Bunnings here in Aus, and popped some slow release acidic fertiliser in. Its growing ok, so when the weather cools down, I'll ensure to be picking the buds for a few years.

I'm also attempting to utilise my quad stacker pot for 12 strawberry plants. The missus and the kids absolutely love fresh strawberries, I wonder if I can be converted ;)
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theres not much out there that can beat fresh strawberries...

they are deeelish !;)
 
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