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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1912 



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How a Strawberry Bed Was 

 Made 



MY STRAWBERRY patch is only about 

 twenty-five feet square but my first harvest 

 from it was 120 quarts of luscious berries. The bed 

 contained about 200 plants. When I first made the 

 bed I found the soil was not of the best for straw- 

 berry growing, but early in April it was spaded and 

 thoroughly pulverized, well rotted stable manure 

 being worked in. The spading was done by a 

 laborer and cost $1.00. 



I knew nothing about the different varieties of 

 strawberries but a careful reading made me decide 

 in favor of a staminate variety, which is one that 

 carries its own pollen and does not, like the pis- 

 tillates, require the transplanting of alternate rows 

 of staminates to insure proper fertilization. I also 

 decided in favor of Marshall, because of the large 

 size of its berries and their deep crimson coloring. 

 But use your own judgment in choosing the variety 

 that seems best suited to your conditions; make 

 inquiries among your neighbors and see which 

 variety is succeeding the best with them. 



I set the plants in hedge rows about a foot apart, 

 the roots being carefully spread apart and covered 

 with about an inch and a half of soil. Most of the 

 runners were cut away to permit of easy cultivation. 

 In the evening, after all the plants were set, they 

 were thoroughly watered; in fact this was done for 

 several evenings as long as the plants showed any 

 inclination to droop. 



About once a week the bed was cultivated with 

 the 2-wheel cultivator and when it was necessary 

 to hoe out the weeds, the cultivator teeth were 

 removed from the machine and two sharp hoes 

 were bolted into place. As the plants sent out 

 runners at both sides of the rows, they were cut off 

 and thrown away, but those that kept in the rows 

 were allowed to remain and in a few weeks, instead 

 of there being a lot of individual plants, there were 

 several continuous rows of green and luxuriant 

 leaves. 



About the first of May the blossoms began to 

 appear and were removed so as to keep the plants 

 from bearing until the following year, when they 

 would be stronger and able to produce a larger 

 yield. 



Once a month I sprinkled a little nitrate of soda 

 about fi\ e inches away from the roots of the vines, 

 along both sides of each row of vines, being careful 

 that none of it came in contact with the vines. All 

 this time the watering pot was freely used and the 

 ground thoroughly cultivated. 



As soon as cold weather set in the plants were 

 covered with a mulch of stable sweepings and loose 

 straw was placed over that. This fertilized the 

 plants and protected them from alternate thawings 

 and freezings during winter, when the roots would 

 be more or less torn by the heaving of the soil. 



The following spring, I removed the mulch with 

 pitchfork and rake, being careful not to tear the 

 vines. In a short time the whole bed was abloom. 

 As strawberries are composed largely of water, keep 

 the watering pot busy. 



From that little patch I harvested 1 20 quarts of 

 luscious berries. A peculiarity of the Marshall 

 is that the berries are nearly uniform in size. Some 

 of them, of course, were enormous and several 

 specimens measured five inches in circumference. 



As soon as all the berries had disappeared the 

 vines were cut with a sickle close to the ground, and 

 when the leaves were dry we burned them where 

 they were to destroy any fungi that might be 

 present. With a hand hoe, I cut out all the remain- 

 ing roots and shoots, leaving only a single row 

 with the roots about a foot and a half apart, and 

 giving to the plants the same treatment in cultivat- 

 ing, watering, stimulating with nitrate of soda, and 

 cutting off shoots that I had given to the bed the 

 first season. By fall I had almost as nice a lot of 

 plants in rows as at the close of my first season ; these 

 were mulched through the winter and given the 

 same manipulation the following spring as the 

 original bed, and although it did not bear as boun- 

 tiful a crop as a new bed would have, the berries 

 were just as large and luscious. However, if you 

 have the space, set out a new bed each season. A 

 new bed can be planted with young plants taken 

 from the rows of the old bed, where there is always 

 an abundance of new plants. 



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