New GardenStraw bags coming soon (+50% more straw): https://bit.ly/3w3iGBR – First strawberry harvest of the season from the new bed at the Epic Homestead! This video goes over care after planting, pests and traps you can use to prevent them, and some harvesting and propagation tips.
00:00 – Intro
00:49 – Growth update
01:02 – Removing flowers
02:40 – Pruning runners
04:40 – Fertilizing & mulching
06:18 – June update
06:34 – Pest damage
09:23 – Yields from pruning
09:53 – Propagating runners
10:23 – Strawberry harvest
11:31 – Outro
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Please show how many earwigs your trap caught and how often you empty it. They’re my biggest pest in the garden right now and they completely freak me out.
Another fantastic video, thank you 🙂
I witnessed a little white worm/bug coming out of one of my strawberries. Now I am a little leery on eating them. Any suggestions? Or was this a slug now do I use to Olive Oil is soy sauce. What was the name of the other thing thing you recommended the product. Thank you so much for all your videos, you have helped me a lot and saved a lot of money for me and my garden.
What do you do about birds eating your berries?
This was great, I really feel like to know enough to go from zero to strawberries after this video.
I don't know why you're treating the earwigs to olive oil and soy sauce, kinda fancy for earwig murder if you ask me. Plain old vegetable oil works the same way.
PS. the oil itself is attractive enough to the earwigs, save the soy sauce for something you're going to eat yourself, don't need to give it to the bugs.
Hi, thank you for the wonderful videos!
About one month ago (June,) I planted two strawberry plants. I am not sure if they are ever bearing and I have already gotten about 3 strawberries in total out of them. Is it too late to start cutting off the flowers?
Thank you
ive never done any of this but i always get many berries and new plants
What do you have to do to get rid of black spot??
I plant some strawberry, i seem very healthy, have so many big leaf, i always cut all runner, but it never make flower
Gah help!! I have seascape strawberries that are currently flowering and fruiting. But I've noticed a few plants that are not. They are healthy but not flowering. What I notice is on the ones that are not flowering, they seem to have at least 2 crowns. The other plants with only 1 crown are doing great. Is it correlated or just a weird coincidence??
you live in california why not just buy the strawberries their super cheap here lol
Can we get a video purely about awesome pest traps? I’m running outside with potatoes and soy sauce right now!
Hi Kevin, if I take a cutting from a strawberry plant how do I plant it to start a new plant?
I don’t normally comment, but this time I just had to. I’ve watched a few now and l have to say, I really like the down to earth way gardening has been explained. I’m a retired Aussie (down south in Melbourne) who is loving doing things in my garden. I’m a real novice, but willing to learn. These videos are just what l need. I’m going to watch them all. Thank you.
I started out with 2 plants and after 2 years I have a huge amount of plants. Do I need to space these plants in the spring? If so, how far apart?
Why do strawberrys get brown straw like stalks at the bottom of the plant? Seem like dry old stems. It's really hard to prone as the house I moved to they didn't look after them. How do I help them become healthy again?
Need a bit of guidance…I bit off more than I could chew this growing season. I have in excess of 20 strawberry runners that I meticulously potted up and they are amazingly healthy in 4" pots. Now for the problem… I live in Indiana (zone 6) and they are still in their pots with average first frost being between Oct 1-10th. The grow bed I intended to build for them never happened and I see no chance of them being able to be planted and getting rooted in before we have hard frosts. What is my best option for overwintering them? I'm considering up-potting them to 6" pots to give them a bit more room as they are already looking a bit rootbound and keeping them in my unheated garage against the house wall. Does this sound like a solid option or is there something else that I could do?
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Do you have any tips for dealing with ants in strawberries? We have a problem with sugar ants eating our potted strawberries before they're ready.
Great info! Can’t wait to plant my first strawberry patch this spring.
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So like, I'm super late, but I have a lot of strawberries that we planted from a variety pack of seeds. They all turn out with small berries for the most part, like field strawberries, but when we let them go we get a ton of folliage. I'm trying to make it a habit in the spring to go and divide the crowns, because they spread like wildfire in our tiny 5ishx5ish plot in front of our apartment. They have tons of really tall flower stalks through the year, and are actually blooming again now in November. I mostly just keep them for greenery, but I might have to start pruning them and see what I get from a groomed yield rather than a half a cup of tiny fruits.