Photo Description I have a good size piece of property, and I like to keep it fairly open with clean lines. So, I don't plow large sections for gardens. I do as much container gardening as I can. Other stuff, I start as seedlings, and give them to my neighbor who has a garden. I get to harvest what I want from his garden. Not a bad investment! I'm always trying to find the smallest container any given plant will grow in and actually thrive. I decided against a raised bed for strawberries. I have been keeping them in pots above ground. Last fall I transferred some of them from pots to 2 liter soda bottles. I did this, hoping to conserve space, water, and labor in caring for them. If all goes well, I will keep a couple hundred plants this way. I couldn't keep that many plants in pots. That's why I gave away most of my plants last year. They seem to like the soda bottles. They are already producing a few berries before filling out with lush growth. That's sort of unusual. What's more unusual is that the Earliglo is a June bearing berry and today is April, 08. I have had ripening berries since the first of April. Everything has triggers. Even triggers have triggers. I'm guessing the few unusually warm days we had earlier, tripped a few of the strawberry plants' triggers, causing them to start the maturation process of their fruits. Hey...I can live with that!
I just noticed; some companies offer strawberry plants/seeds with the name 'Earliglo', while others offer 'Earliglow'. I wonder if they're the same strawberry. And, I wonder what the developer of the Earli????, named his original. Well, for now, that's beside the point.
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Hey Doug, I'm pleased that you've found a good use for soda bottles that would otherwise go to the dump and decompose in 50 or so years. I'd take some of your strawberries if we lived closer.
I really think I'm going to like growing strawberries in 2 liter soda bottles. I put a layer of excelsior on top of the soil to prevent soil from splashing on the leaves during watering or rain. The soil contains pathogens harmful to the strawberry leaves. The excelsior lasts just a season. I will be looking for something more permanent.
This method seems to be ideal. We shall see. As for now, the only changes I think I might make is growing the berries in three liter bottles, rather than two.
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