Make a Strawberry Grow Bed

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The Strawberry Grow Bed

As I have previously mentioned in an opening article concerning snail mail that we receive here is that chances are I will compost that magazine or paper once I am through with it. But most especially any and all junk mail is deposited in the compost pile or into a new growing bed.

The strawberry bed is and has been no exception. The pictures and results speak for themselves along with the two new potato grow beds we made this spring of 2009. The biggest difference was the covering of the strawberry bed with plastic to accelerate the composting of the leaves. It works fantastic. The only other photo that is not included below is a full load of manure hay from a neighbors spring field. We had layered a good two feet deep of this wonderful material. The entire bed sat for one year before planting the strawberry plants which are June bearing runner types.

Over wintering of the plants was accomplished by covering the entire bed with three feet of leaves and allowing the plants to sit under the cover until the last days of February.