How to Plant & Grow Healthy Organic Strawberries for Food from Plugs/Roots in a No Till raised bed Garden. Organic Gardening Method 101 using a Back to Eden with wood chips. Easy DIY Organic Home steps.
Strawberry Plugs USDA Certified Organic from: http://www.johnnyseeds.com/
Hi Mark very interesting information but you also leave me with questions 1 do blueberries also change to a more acidic base as well? 2 I see that in the continuation of the strawberry video there are very tall grasses are these winter rye? 3 do the strawberries actually grow taller than the 3 plantings you've planted along with the berries? Thanks in advance!
Sorry another question will the clover, alfalfa and rye need to be planted annually?
Hi Mark in one of your videos you said that plants change the ph at the base of the plant, question, will this also be true for blueberry plants that like a lower ph?
Where did you get the strawberry plugs.
How would I keep the rodents out of my strawberries?
referring back to the video where you built raised beds with wire panels. You said you got some dirt from the area of a pine tree to introduce mycorrhiza fungi. How far out from the pine tree? How much to get? How deep example (surface dirt or take post hole diggers and go down 1 foot) Thanks ahead Woody
Ladybirds eat weed seeds…. are you sure? Where did you learn this? What stage of their lifecycle are they in when they do this?
Hello Mark, I posted a question a month ago and you haven't answered it. Please see from newest post about 5 down. thanks
Thank you soooooooo much
I have a raised bed here in mid Michigan, I have explained the structure and layering in another comment. But for those who don't know, it's a 3x6ft treated 2x5in board's(bought this year, May-2018)
I have 3 distinct layers;
1.) Ground up pine stump with ground-soil mixed in. (1-1.5in)
2.) A layer of hand mixed top soil and manure. (2-3in)
3.) Top layer of mixed wood chips (2-2.5in) They seemed to have been aged for a year before I got to it, so there was that white film all throughout the mulch. (Been seeing tiny mushrooms after heavy rains a month later)
All the garden beds had a thorough soaking after planting and then was rained on for a couple of day's afterwords.
With all of the wood chips on top, the soil has remained fairly moist in all of the beds and only watered them less then 5 times in total I'm guessing.
The point to this is the addition of at least the top layer of mulch has pretty much negated really any need of water. Only do it out of habbit.
Thank you! Very interresting!
Mark, you always thank us for watching but that's silly. It's like thanking someone for picking up gold nuggets you've scattered. The info you share and the time you put into these videos is a wonderful gift to everyone who watches. WE thank YOU for teaching so much and so well.
Seed starwbearry plants how much gives fruits. Par plants.
Thanks Mark I just keep learning more and more from each of your videos
The bugs eat weed seeds? Ladybugs?
Hello Mark. How would you manage this strawberry patch, when the annual rye finishes its term and gets dried up and strawberry plants are still good and green?
When I moved in I had strawberry plants that a neighbor gave me where I used to live. Three weeks ago I had to dig out Bermuda grass before I seeded the space with the annual rye to develop my root system, but before I seeded I planted the strawberry plants in the corner of the plot then seeded the whole plot. Will just the annual rye be enough all by itself without the other covering seeds? It's just a small area 20 x 30.
I checked JohnnySeeds via your link. I can't find where they sell "plugs" at all. Can you help guide me?
I've never heard of ladybugs eating weed seed. Also, it's hard to believe that blueberry plants can change the soil pH enough to thrive in alkaline or even neutral pH soil. Where did you get this information?
Where did you get your flat of strawberries? I would love to get some strawberries for zone 10 please let me know. Thank you for your awesome videos you rock.
Thank you Mark! As usual this is very informative. I have watched many other tutorials and yours always have the most depth , which you explain in easy to understand language. This year I will plant my first strawberries, I have ordered from Gurneys. I was thinking to mulch heavily as I most always do. However, I like the information you have provided on growing them with white clover, alfalfa , rye grass and I was thinking hoary vetch. You have proven to be quite the professor.
Very impressed with your video and also the fact that you describe the growing medium as it should be……….soil instead of dirt.
Hi and thanks for sharing! Im going to raise a strawberry farm this year, wanna make it all organic, so i was wondering if it will fits.. Im asking because didnt find any results of strawberries growing, some harvest video on your channel. Did it work for you? Thanks in advance and good luck, wish great harvests!
Hi I watched this video and liked the idea, but I would be glad if you could give me some link to instructions on how to grow strawberries this way, because there are some issues which I don't understand entirely, like what to do if the clover grows tall, do you move it and so on. Many thanks Visar from Kosovo
Are you from PA or New Jersey?
I want to thank you for all your videos. I've binged them and really want to implement them after we get land. I know it's been a few years since you posted these but you still need serious props for these vids
Wow those strawberry plants are just beautiful