When strawberry harvest is over, sow oats right in the beds.
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Did you know that the seed-like structures on a strawberry are really a type of fruit called achenes (a small, dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit), and that what most of us think of as the fruit or berry is really just the fleshy host, or receptacle, for the seed-like fruit? Since I learned this, I have looked at strawberries a little differently.
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New England growers rarely have an advantage over southern and western growers, but strawberries offer a delicious example of a crop that is better suited to the cool, moist climate and acidic soils of New England than to the heat of the south or the dry, alkaline conditions prevailing in many Western states. New Englanders should exploit their advantage.
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University of Florida researchers have been experimenting with soilless culture for strawberries, due to the popularity of the crop and the impending phase-out of the soil fumigant methyl bromide.
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The matted row system of strawberry production is the primary production system used in the Northeast. In this system bare rooted plantlets are set out in the early spring, and the field is kept clean cultivated while daughter plants fill in the rows. The year of planting is an establishment year and no crop is harvested until the following June. In contrast, the system Bill Lord has been modifying for the Northeast is an adaptation of the annual hill system of culture.
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The following varieties were described by David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
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A special compost, a plastic mulch and beneficial microorganisms may be ingredients for the perfect recipe to protect strawberry fields from weeds and soil-borne diseases, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Richard Rominger says.
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