Facts About Everbearing Strawberries 



1. They do bear out of regular season, enabling you to enjoy luscious strawberries throughout 

 late summer and fall. 



2. No long wait is necessary. If plants are set in April you can start picking in late August, 

 only a few weeks after the plants are set. 



3. Extra crops. In addition to the crop the first fall, a regular crop is produced in the spring 

 season. Under good conditions (especially irrigation) a partial crop can be had the second 

 summer. 



4. Everbearers as a cash crop. Increasing numbers of growers are finding it profitable to 

 grow Everbearing strawberries, most of them not in any extensive way but as just another cash 

 crop to bring in a few hundred dollars extra, or in the garden or small plot to help make a profit- 

 able use of spare time. Up to the middle of November, 1935, we had made shipments from several 

 acres of Gem. Green Mountain, and Wayzata and had received a net return of over .$300.00 per 

 acre for all of them. Nothing remarkable, but very interesting when you consider that they were 

 grown in matted rows for plant purposes with no special treatment, and that this amount had 

 been received within about seven months from the time plants were set. 



Yields of Everbearers From 



Different Planting Systems 



in Fall 1935 



Matted row 37^ pts. 



Spaced row with plants 7 in. apart. . . SIMj pts. 



Double hill row with plants 11 in. 

 apart — plants set in April, 22 in. 

 apart with 3 new runners from each 

 original plant 



V 2 pts. 



Double hill row with plants 12 in. 

 apart — all plants set in April and 

 all runners removed 103% pts. 



These are totals from our trial plot for five 

 different varieties, Mastodon, Gem, Green Moun- 

 tain, Wayzata and Empire All Red. The same 

 ranking in yield for the different systems held 

 for all five varieties. It is probable that a 

 single hill row or a straight hill system with 

 rows closer together would equal any other 

 system in total yield. Under the hill system 

 cultivation and hoeing as well as removal of 

 blossoms and runners would be somewhat easier. 

 For small gardens especially, the hill system 

 with all runners removed and plants set fairly 

 close together is recommended. 



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Five Varieties of Everbearers Growing in Double 

 Hill Rows. All the Plants were Set Early and 

 all Runners were Removed. This System Re- 

 quires more Plants but Total Yields were 

 Greater than with Any Other System on all 

 Five Varieties. 



This lot of Gem sold 

 for 20 cents per pint 

 on a wholesale mar- 

 ket. Where ship- 

 ments can be made 

 by truck we have 

 found the 15-pint flat, 

 with no covers, a 

 profitable package 

 for marketing Ever- 

 bearers. 



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