This is my third year with these strawberries which have taken over a patch of my yard. They look healthy and flower, and then start to produce berries but they never mature. Is there a common cause for this? Or is it most likely that they are simply being eaten too quickly? We have chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, and birds. But I have never had a single full-size strawberry and the patch is ~3.5” X 8”. I currently have dozens of these tiny berries.
by ltlvlge12
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Maybe it’s too early. You want your strawberries to come in around June, depending on where you live. You can try pinching off the flower buds until it’s later in the year. You could also pinch a bunch of those young strawberries so that the plant puts more energy into a few of them. That looks like an awful lot of strawberries for a smallish plant to produce.
Thank you! I had no idea. It probably is too early, since I’m in Missouri. And the pinching never occurred to me.
Where are you located?
Are these wild strawberries OP or a cultivar that you planted?
They need food. Holly tone berry tone or Tru Organics berry blend is great. The soil needs to be a little on the acidic side for them to do what they do. All of these fertilizers will do that. Fertilize and water.
I have over 100 strawberry plants… we love strawberry lol
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This is what I was talking about in my comment. Yellow flowers won’t produce full sized fruit. You want to search out either pink or white!
What kind of soil are you using?