Posted by tinnews on September 1, 2011, 4:06 pm
I just noticed our strawbwerries are flowering again, will they
produce a second crop (frost allowing)?
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Chris Green
Posted by nmm1 on September 1, 2011, 3:57 pm
>I just noticed our strawbwerries are flowering again, will they
Very likely. Most strawberries will do that, though the second crop
is small in varieties not bred for it.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
Posted by Derek on September 2, 2011, 4:07 am
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:06:21 +0100, tinnews@isbd.co.uk wrote:
>I just noticed our strawbwerries are flowering again, will they
>produce a second crop (frost allowing)?
Personally I always remove the flowers, would rather build up the
plants for next year's crop.
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Posted by Judith in France on September 2, 2011, 7:04 am
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> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:06:21 +0100, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> >I just noticed our strawbwerries are flowering again, will they
> >produce a second crop (frost allowing)?
> Personally I always remove the flowers, would rather build up the
> plants for next year's crop.
> New site in the making,
> Lincolnshire Gamemakers for 2012http://2012volunteer.co.uk/
Would removing the flowers really build up the plants? I have never
done that, I may well do an experiment, take off the flowers off half
the plants and not the others to see what difference there is next
year.
Posted by Baz on September 2, 2011, 8:09 am
4b79-a8a8-165cf7be75c3@dq7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:
> X-No Archive:Yes
>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:06:21 +0100, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
>> >I just noticed our strawbwerries are flowering again, will they
>> >produce a second crop (frost allowing)?
>>
>> Personally I always remove the flowers, would rather build up the
>> plants for next year's crop.
>> New site in the making,
>> Lincolnshire Gamemakers for 2012http://2012volunteer.co.uk/
>
> Would removing the flowers really build up the plants? I have never
> done that, I may well do an experiment, take off the flowers off half
> the plants and not the others to see what difference there is next
> year.
From what information I can gather it is absolutely ok. to leave the
flowers(blossom?) on. It is the suckers which may be growing that sap the
energy out of a plant, if you know what I mean by suckers, the new baby
plants. I think that flowers and suckers should not be on the same plant.
One or the other. you can nip out the suckers, but a plant is only ok. for
3 years? so try and root the suckers for the future to replace the current
ones when they are past their best.
Hope you can understand my muddled reply.
Baz
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