We plant about 500-750 new strawberry plants each year in addition to transplanting daughter plants and maintaining the previous year's mothers.  These new 'bare root' plants come from a supplier in what looks like a box of tangled, dirty never-gonna-grow roots.  With careful planting - the roots below the surface of a plastic-mulch-covered raised bed of soil, the crown just above - the plants will take hold, and begin to produce flowers in 4-6 weeks. That doesn't mean we'll get berries at that point.  In fact, and this probably goes against instinct, but we actually pluck off the first set...Read More