natural Groundcover

 

Anyone have any thoughts about this... I have wild strawberries growing
everywhere.  The fruit is tiny and maybe 1 in 10 wasn't bitter, but not
sweet either.  Anyway just for the hell of it I started mowing around it
when it's flowering and bearing fruit.  For some reason this year the
fruit is much larger and most of it tastes neutral and some of it is
actually a little sweet!  So I've been letting it go in the gardens for
about a year and it seems like it will be a very nice ground cover.  it
isn't taking over anything but open space.  Well in the lawn it may be
taking over some grass, but I don't mind it... so far.

Anyone have any experience with this?  I'd like to put it on steroids
and sick it on the Bermuda grass!  As is I don't think it will crowd out
the Bermuda grass, but I can hope can't I?

Thoughts?

 

On 6/7/2010 10:02 PM, Tony wrote:

I'm tending to to this in areas where I have slopes and have been trying
to establish ivy.  My problem is deer and while most people curse ivy as
evasive, it's not evasive here.  There are native plants, some weeds,
that the deer do not eat and now I'm just letting them grow.

 

Frank wrote:

I don't see ivy and wild strawberries having the same light requirement.
Where my wild strawberries are, the english ivy would die back from too
much sun. Ivy needs more shade. Managing wild strawberries isn't hard
and it may be a good ground cover, it grows well in rocky and poor
terrain. I'm neutral at the moment.

   Jeff

   There are native plants, some weeds,

 

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On 6/8/2010 3:04 PM, Jeff Thies wrote:
  Ivy needs more shade. Managing wild strawberries isn't hard

In what zone does your ivy live?  Mine is thriving wildly in sun and
shade and everywhere else, I hate it!  I wish the sellers had just kept
to the vinca and pachysandra that's mixed in.

I'm in USA zone 7.

There's a very beautiful and extremely invasive ground cover (rhizome),
houttounyia (sp?) that is colorful and bright and goes EVERYwhere.

Susan

 

Susan wrote:

Is that know as "fish cheek mint" or "fish plant"?  I thought it was a
sub-tropical to tropical plant that is frost tender.

David