Re: [nafex] Strawberry Recommendations?

[Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

I have a fruit tree is a raised bed (4'x4'x 16") and I am looking for a
good ground cover.  I have been thinking strawberries as they don't like
wet feet.  This will shade the soil in the bed and hopefully conserve
water and return berries as a bonus.

Are strawberries a good selection?  Any particular variety for the
conditions in a raised bed (Canadian Hardiness zone 6a [similar to
northern Masssachusetts US zone 5])

As straw bedding would blow off a raised bed, how would you mulch for
winter?

Thanks,
Tom

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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 ribes60@aol.com wrote:

> Chris, I grow Cavendish, Sweet Charlie and Chandler as plasticulture
> method.
> Cavendish is for me, the others are for sale. Cavendish has a "white
> shoulder" in the early berries but is not objectionable to me.Taste is
> very
> good, yield is second only to Chandler. The plants do not send out the
> numbers of runners that Chandler does, and the deer have not bothered
> them
> near as much. I have never seen deer eat the plants right down to the


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