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rehabbing strawberry beds #7651743
08/17/22 09:57 AM
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Best way to get some beds recovered before replanting? Got two raised beds that look like they've played out so will be needing to move them. My other beds have tomatoes in them so I cant use those for the strawberries for a while, supposedly.

Re: rehabbing strawberry beds [Re: SNIPERBBB] #7651905
08/17/22 03:27 PM
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You can solarize a bed and make it good for strawberries. Mix in some compost and wet it down pretty good and cover with clear 1mil plastic snugly over your bed. Temps can get up to 140F or more at the surface and for every inch you go down about 5-7 degrees less. 95F for extended periods of time will kill most all pathogens and weed seed to boot. A minimum of 1 month is needed...better if it was the whole summer.

And Sniper, if you need any strawberry starts PM me. I've got some extra I can send you for free, just cover my shipping.


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Re: rehabbing strawberry beds [Re: SNIPERBBB] #7651952
08/17/22 05:01 PM
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Are you referring to the old strawberry beds or nuking the beds that had tomatoes

Re: rehabbing strawberry beds [Re: SNIPERBBB] #7652117
08/17/22 08:49 PM
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Either way. Ideally you find a new spot that hasn't had either for many many years. But truth be told the pathogens that bother both build up in numbers and can stay in the soil for decades. If you had a bunch of good quality compost that will help as the microbes in the compost will tend to kill out the baddies. But the solarization thing is practically miraculous in cleaning up pathogen infested soils. It's not 100%, but I've sure got good results. If you can't pull off the solarization I would work in copious amounts of compost into your tomato bed and then start with clean strawberry plants. If you try to move plants form the older bed you will defeat yourself before you even get started.

I've got some strawberry slips (Seascape variety of day-neutral) that are just starting to root and could send you some if you need 'em. They are soil free and would have no pathogens.

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Re: rehabbing strawberry beds [Re: SNIPERBBB] #7652144
08/17/22 09:23 PM
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Might have to hold off on that offer at the moment, dont really have a free bed to put them in right now. I do have a double dug bed(20x6) I build last fall that I put a half dozen plants everbearing in a corner. Got some garden huckleberries in the middle with some sweetcorn on the opposite side. Corn ought to be done in the next two weeks before I can clear that side again. Havent decided where I want to put any new beds in the yard yet other than a spot to transplant my thornless blackberries as theyre trying to take over my whole garden right now.

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