I started the job this eavening . I dug up about fifty runners and poked them through the weed barrier. Only about 500 - 1000 to go

The mother plants have already set runners?

Can't wait until they are ready to pick.

We haven't even thought about taking the mulch off yet.

We’re already eating fresh local strawberries. Cottle farms planted a new early variety this year and with the temperatures being about 4 weeks early we’ve had fresh strawberries now for the last 3.5 weeks.

We let them set last summer/fall . We've been planting through black landscape cloth for a weed barrier . I'm trying to get a jump on planting to give them time to get enogh foliage to shade the black cloth in the late summer what we had planted earlier did better last year .I would have liked to have got this done in sept but it just didnt happen . The rows covered with cloth are about the only places in the garden you can walk without sinking .

What variety of strawberries are you growing? Bigfoot.

Mostly All Stars , and Early Glo . There is also some everbearing plants mixed in I think they were tribute . I like for there to be a few all summer . When the grandkids come over they run to the garden and run up and down the rows of strawberries looking for any late berries hanging on .then they raid the cherry tomatoes and salad turnips . By then me or nanna will be out there and put them to work pulling weeds or digging taters . I think its cool when the first thing they want to do is go to the garden

The beds on each side of my wife are strawberries

Bigfoot, get some "Seascape" if you can. It won't do you wrong.

Day neutral, producing late May to November and they have great flavor.

I may try them when they come in at morgan county seed co .

My understanding of this method of propagation......it's one and done. Plant this year......harvest next year. Runners get moved to a new bed each year?

Does the landscape cloth get reused too, or is it also one and done?

I've got the cloth (from another project) and if the rain ever stops, hope to build a raised bed to put it on. Just wondering if I need to plan on two beds, to alternate back and forth.

In terms of "wet", I can't recall it ever being worse. Mudded in some oats a few weeks back and they have had standing water on them ever since. If it stays this wet, I may need to switch to rice.

Day neutrals can start to be harvested 8-9 weeks after planting

I went to check on my few plants(12-16) last year. All that was there were some stems and deer tracks.
We planted close th the house this time.

Just remember that whatever your garden produces you get to eat! (Some of it higher in protein).

Many of the plants you see are in their second year . The cloth is the same as silt fence . I get it for $80 for 320' The ones we planted early and closer together took the heat better than the ones in a single row . This is an experiment for us .we are learning as we go Ill let you know next year if they will produce more than one year

Exactly lol, I am up front about it. I'm eating out of the garden one way or the other.

My garden space by the house has water and is convenient but limited to under one acre but I have 96 acers. So we plant things that don't need as much attention and maintenance out in the fields. Pumpkin, squash, worked great strawberries not so much. I'm just glad I didn't plant a bunch before I found out deer enjoy them as well.

I havnt seen deer tracks in our garden ten times in ten years

Count your blessings, Big foot. That's all I can say.

The garden is next to the house and a quarter mile from any brush to the south . And a half mile to the north .the only cover is five giant cottonwoods around my house every thing on my property is surrounded by goat tight fence . They just seem to filter around my property and not through it if they have to escape to the south they have to jump three goat tight fences ,so generaly they stay on the neighbor where there are no fences