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Adapted for use with tractors; 
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A Successful Strawberry Patch 
Fifty-four years ago I raised my first 
crop of strawberries. I purchased 100 
plants of the old Wilson Albany, and 
planted them in a bed in my little garden, 
placing them 18 inches apart each way. 
I simply cultivated them with a hoe. and 
kept the runners off. By one thing and 
another I lost 14 plants, leaving me 86. 
They made stools, I believe, that would 
average as large as an ordinary half 
bushel. We kept close account of the 
berries picked, and at the end of the 
Reason the account showed over 100 
quarts, beside the stray berries slyly 
picked and eaten. I often wonder if any¬ 
body since has beaten this yield. I have 
been growing strawberries ever since, and 
I doubt if I have ever equaled it. How¬ 
ever, I have never since then resorted to 
the hill system. 
I have in my garden a spot of very i 
rich black loam soil 80x70 feet devoted ! 
to strawberry culture. For three or four 
years I have had an overhead irrigating 
system covering this plot of ground, and 
because that system was a permanent 
fixture I grow every year my strawber¬ 
ries on that same plot of ground. I know 
that is not the orthodox method of grow- : 
ing strawberries, but I have succeeded, 
and here is the way I do it: At the very 
start I planted in tows four feet apart, 
and use altogether the matted row sys¬ 
tem. After I am through with the straw¬ 
berry crop I draw a line as near the edge 
as possible on a certain side of the first 
row. All plants falling on the outside of 
that line are hoed off, and then the line 
is moved over about six inches and all 
the plants that fall on the other side of 
the line are hoed off. Of course that 
means the hoeing off of perhaps three- 
fourths of the plants. Every row is 
treated the same way, and then' the thin 
rows of plants that are left are thinned 
out until the plants stand almost as 
thinly in the row as when originally 
planted. 
I encourage the runners as much as 
possible to run towards what was the 
middle, where no vines had grown the 
year before. Every row is treated the 
same way, and when the growing season 
is over I have my strawberry rows just 
an average of four feet apart again. The 
next year the operation is just the same, 
except that it is reversed so that the row 
of plants is on or beyond where it stood 
the year before. Now what is the result? 
This year there was the largest crop I 
ever saw in my 54 years of straw¬ 
berry growing. As I have often said. I 
am quite aware this method is not ortho¬ 
dox. and my only reason for it is because 
my irrigation plant is not easily moved, 
and hence in order to get the benefit of 
it when I need it, instead of planting out 
my berry plants in new ground each year, 
the irrigating plant and the strawberry 
patch are co-partners and near neighbors. 
But now here is a question. I am having 
increasing labor in keeping a kind of 
soTrel out of that patch. I cannot see 
that the sorrel does the strawberry crop 
any harm, but my understanding is that 
when ground gets infested with sor¬ 
rel it indicates that the soil is getting 
sour. Now is that true? And would it 
be good policy to lime that spot of 
ground? If so. how much, and in what 
form? The soil is a rich black loam: no 
corn land is rendered more and more rich 
by the way I manage it. Now what about 
the sorrel? 'Will lime kill out the sorrel? 
Will it benefit the strawberry crop, or 
diminish it. or have no effect on it? 
I have frequently introduced new varie¬ 
ties in my strawberry patch. Here is 
the way I do it: In the Spring, at the 
proper time, I plant any new variety I 
want to test directly in the middle be¬ 
tween two rows that I feel most willing 
to sacrifice, and after the crop is har¬ 
vested these two rows, or at least one of 
them, is sacrificed to the new-comers. I 
shjuld have said that strawberries have 
been grown on this piece of ground con¬ 
tinuously for more than 10 years. Two 
or thrqe times the whole patch has been 
reset as described above, but most often 
with plants grown right on the same 
ground. A. w. foreman. 
Illinois. 
Doubtless that piece of ground is well 
adapted to strawberries, and your method 
has evidently been a good one. But lime 
is detrimental to strawberries, which pre¬ 
fer an acid soil, and so is sorrel. It will 
be hard to rid the land of sorrel while 
growing strawberries on it. I would 
move the strawberry bed to other ground 
and then lime and treat the soil with 
plants that will choke the sorrel. Sorrel 
grows on land too acid for most other 
plants, but it will grow on limed soil too. 
The effect of the lime is to bring in con¬ 
ditions more favorable to the legume 
plants, and will enable it to grow clover 
to smother the sorrel, and by turning un¬ 
der the clover and cultivating one season 
in vegetables yon can safely go hack to 
strawberries. My method of growing 
strawberries here is to plant a plot every 
November. These plants will give me a 
fair or partial crop in the Spring, and 
will make a good matted row that season. 
The next Spring I get a full crop, and 
after the fruit is off turn the plants un¬ 
der. having tl e previous Fall’s planting 
coming on, and another bed to be planted 
in November. This is cheaper than try¬ 
ing to keep sorrel, etc., out. 
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