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I have strawberries now to find somewhere to put them!

I had some strawberries and a blueberry shrub (offer from gardening magazine) delivered yesterday - now to find somewhere to put them!  Doesn't help that the broken bit of pheony went where I was planning to plant the blueberry so now I have to find a new site for the blueberry.  Was going to plant the strawberries with the rest of the fruit plants, but that area is pretty shaded so I'm not sure if they will get enough sunlight as apparently they like full sun.  Any advice?

  • My word you are busy in your garden,

    Have you thought about a strawberry urn ?

    it's a large pot with ''pockets'' down the sides to put your plants in,

    ideal if you are short of space.

    Now-a-days commercial growers grow them on benches about 3' tall so the fruit hangs over the edges & is easier to pick,

    I'm sure you could ''knock '' some thing up as you seem quite creative in your garden,

       regards    Val

  • Haha patio is pretty much full now so I was wanting to avoid putting them in containers.  I've just planted them with the rest of the fruit, they'll grow in part shade apparently it's just the fruiting that is affected but the ones at the top bit get more light so will probably do better fruit-wise, but those lower down will provide a bit of ground cover.  I was thinking about putting them in the containers with my apple trees but I think they'd be too much competition for my little trees.  I don't even like fresh strawberries, my geckos will probably benefit the most with fresh strawberries from the garden and the birds can take what they please lol  My mum might be lucky and get a punnet, maybe I'll be really nice and buy a pot of cream for them too!

  • I planted mine in some hanging pockets last year which seemed to work quite well as it kept the slugs off!  Apart from me not watering them enough that is!

    I'm not bald. I've just got ingrowing hair!

  • Do you know that Blueberries are acid lovers and need Ericaceous compost..?  Thats why they do well in pots, also you get more fruit the more bushes you have as they like to be pollinated from other Blueberry bushes.

  • Apparently strawberries grow pretty much anywhere....!

    Any pots, old boots, ramdom containers....

    'Dip a dee dah, dip a dee ay, we're not seeing any birds to-day...'