Some gardeners prefer a continuous row in the second and third year, rather than spaced plants. The overall crop may be higher, but the quality of fruits is not as good. Whichever method you use, keep a clear gap between the rows to give you access for weeding and harvesting Garden netting will help you to protect your fruit and vegetables from garden pests. Stop birds, cabbage white butterflies, sun, wind, insects, cats and rabbits. Most of the netting can be laid over garden hoops or fruit and vegetable cages. Summer-fruiting strawberries – these are the most popular type and produce the largest fruit. They have a short but heavy cropping period of two or three weeks. There are early-, mid- and late-fruiting cultivars, cropping from early to mid-summer. If covered with cloches or grown in a greenhouse from late winter, they will provide even earlier harvests

I take down the netting in July. The frames could be dismantled, too, but it’s easier to leave them in place. Over the years, the copper has weathered to an unobtrusive dark hue. When snow covers the garden, it’s a nice reminder that a fruitful spring is on the horizon. My point is this – the tutorial below includes measurements for covering 2 strawberry grow bags. BUT this method should work for strawberry plants plants in row with a modification in measurements. Next year I might spray paint the PVC a nice color to blend in with the house and garden. Probably a dark green color. When to Erect a DIY Strawberry Plant CageNote: If you don’t plan to take the cage off the strawberry plants at harvest (i.e. you have secured it to the ground with staples), don’t use ties along two of the sides of the PVC pipe. This way, you can easily raise the netting on this side and collect berries. Final Results Our standard off-the-shelf cages are available in 0.25m increments up to a maximum size of 9m x 9m. The connectors, either build a balls or joiners are used to connect the 13mm crossbars, these then connect to the legs. There are so many steps in the K-beauty routine and there are so many products involved.It can be confusing, especially when it comes down to essence, serum and ampoule. They all hydrate and nurture skin, just doing it differently. So by better understanding, you can layer on products cleverly and optimize the effects.

Fruits may occasionally be affected by phyllody, and the fruit fly spotted wing drosophila (SWD) is likely to become an increasing problem. Perpetual strawberries – sometimes called everbearers, they produce small flushes of fruit over a long period, from early summer until the first autumn frosts. The crops are not as heavy as summer-fruiting varieties, the fruits are smaller and plants are less likely to produce runners.

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This is a cheaper way of making a net because it is faster and requires no work by hand. The technical term for this type of net is Raschel which is a type of warp knitting in which parallel monofilaments are looped together in a zigzig pattern along the length of the net. Our Woven net is made from two strands of 500 denier filament looped together which is then interlooped at the mesh corners. Strawberries can be grown in a greenhouse or under cloches to produce an earlier harvest. Suitable cultivars include ‘Cambridge Favourite’ AGM, ‘Honeoye’ AGM, ‘Rosie’, ‘Royal Sovereign' and ‘Tamella’. Simply bring potted strawberry plants into an unheated greenhouse in February, or cover rows outdoors with cloches or a fleece tunnel. Water regularly, then hand pollinate the flowers with a soft paintbrush or remove the cloches during the day while in flower to allow insects to pollinated them. You can then place abiodegradable mulch mat around each plant to deter weeds and keep the fruits off the soil. One of the advantages of this type of support is that it can accommodate beds that not perfectly rectangular (and none of mine are). You can just shift the assemblies to get the coverage you need.

There are many different varieties of all three types, with variations in flavour, sweetness, fruit size and colour, disease-resistance, harvest time and even flower colour. Measure the height and the width of your strawberry grow bags (or yard area). Add about 6″ to all the measurements to estimate the length and width of PVC pipes (i.e. the supports). For our 2 10-gallon strawberry bags, our cage was about 32″. 2. Cut PVC Piping

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Netting – Minimum of 6′ by 40′ roll. We found the best value in a 7’ by 100’ roll for future gardening projects