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What causes very small black solid spots on strawberry leaves?
These are aphids whose lifestyle is to live off the plant juices in the leaves. They can be found almost everywhere during the growing season and prefer plants with soft leaves. You will rarely find ...
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Can I accelerate the ripening of strawberries?
You did exactly what I would have recommended. Very ripe bananas especially. I'd enclose them together with the strawberries in a paper bag, close it off with very little airspace, and keep it at at ...
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Brown leaves on strawberries
Yes, if they're dead, but if your winter is not over yet, wait till the weather warms up - the dead leaves may provide some protection if the weather is still cold.
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What causes very small black solid spots on strawberry leaves?
Going off of what Kevin said (I can't make comments yet :). I used to work in a greenhouse for a year in high school.
There is another way other than dish soap and water as well as picking them off ...
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What are these small, round, red berries covered with bumps, on low-growing plants in Upstate New York?
They look like mock strawberries. Duchesnea indica. They are edible (if they are truly mock strawberries), but not as tasty as real strawberries.
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What to do with strawberry plants planted in a soil with lot of nitrogen in it?
Patience. One of the hardest parts of being a gardener.
Strawberry plants rarely produce berries the first year they are transplanted. Instead they spend most of their resources and nutrients ...
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What is eating my strawberries?
They're also called Box Elder Bugs. Here's a fact sheet from the University of Minnesota which also shows them as feeding on plants and fruits in years with particularly large populations. Large ...
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Why are my strawberries shaped like this?
The strawberry fruit shown in your image shows clear signs of mutation - this could be caused by phytoplasma infection, see here https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/phytoplasmas-of-berry-fruit or may just ...
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Can I add soil to strawberries, creating a raised bed?
Like many other perennials, strawberry plants grow from a crown at ground level. If you add soil, it will result in elongated, weakened crown growth and eventually health failure. Instead, dig out ...
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Is there an organic way to remove wild strawberries from a lawn?
Depending on how big your area is, vinegar (acetic acid) could be a option. You can test household vinegar in a small area to see how well it works; however, since wild strawberry is a perennial, you ...
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How do I figure out what pest is eating my strawberries?
It looks like slugs to me. You say you don't see slime trails, but slugs may be very tiny with very tiny trails.
Here the difference between bird or slug damage.
You can try to capture the slugs, ...
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Is there a strawberry that grows as a bush?
NO. And more importantly, expect no more than 2 years crop for any strawberries. (I am squeaking by at 3 years). If you want to ease harvest work get June bearing. If you want all season long ...
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What causes very small black solid spots on strawberry leaves?
Yep, Aphids.
@JStorage and any other passersby,
First I wanted to address "Organic":
"Organic" is a somewhat flexible term. Science would define it as an object or substance with a carbon-based ...
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Growing Strawberries in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Winter season)
My suggestion would be to examine the efforts of a similarly hot country such as Israel. There have been some efforts to grow strawberries in the hot season there. The Israelis have a long tradition ...
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How to keep a detached strawberry runner alive
Probably too much water, combined with planting at the wrong depth. Strawberries are sensitive to being planted too deeply or too shallowly.
Get a fresh pot of soil, moist but not wet.
Remove the ...
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Shade Tolerant Strawberry Varieties?
If you don't mind alpine strawberries, Alexandria seems to do quite well in partial shade, especially on its second year. I grew it from seed last year. They're very small fruits, though. The plants ...
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What is eating my strawberries?
According to Wikipedia, these bugs don't normally feed on berries, but it does happen (emphasis mine):
Although they specialize on the seeds from maple, boxelder and ash, they may pierce other parts ...
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What's the best way to care for and feed my strawberry plants?
Strawberry plants can produce fruit for 6 years or so but production rapidly drops off after the first few years with onset of diseases and pests. So, the best thing to do is toss them and start ...
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Can I add soil to strawberries, creating a raised bed?
You can definitely transplant strawberries. Best thing would be to remove the strawberry plants (especially the younger ones) completely, build a raised bed per your requirements and then plant the ...
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Red Berry ID Assistance
I think it is Duchesnea indica, also known as Potentilla indica, very invasive. It propagates itself by stolons, so try to take the whole roots out if you don't intend to use the chemical approach.
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What is this green "fluff" in my strawberry patch?
The resolution on the photo isn't high enough, because under magnification I still can't see it clearly. It's probably slime mould, algae, or cyanobacterial growth, but all these form and grow in ...
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How to get my strawberry to grow runners?
Strawberries, or common strawberries, will produce runners if the conditions are right.
To coax runner production, increase nitrogen feeding after the harvest is over. High nitrogen lawn fertilizer ...
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Can you plant a strawberry from fruit?
If by alpine strawberry you mean Fragaria vesca, then it's possible to grow them from seed. I have grown them from store-bought seeds and they germinated after a few months because I haven't watered ...
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Can you plant a strawberry from fruit?
If you want to grow from your own strawberry fruit seeds rather than buying seeds, there's some advice here, but its a UK site, so when it talks about 'compost' it means potting soil, and if you're in ...
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Strawberry plant or not? It has jagged toothed leaves. I didn't plant it
It looks like Rough Cinquefoil - Potentilla norvegica (also known as False Strawberry). Photo:https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/archive/entomology/ndsucpr/Years/2006/june/22/cinquefoil.jpg
It's an annual or ...
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Is it a bad idea to pin every branch of a strawberry plant to the ground?
I'm not sure what zone you are in but here in Zone 5 the runners on the strawberries can be transplanted during the next month in order to get rooted well before winter. You can cut the runners off ...
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Red Berry ID Assistance
It's a bit confusing - the fruit and leaves strongly suggest Duchesnea indica, but that plant has yellow flowers, and I'm seeing white flowers in the picture. On close inspection, there seem to be at ...
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Is there a strawberry that grows as a bush?
I think what you want are alpine strawberries. They typically don't send out runners. It's fairly common to grow them from seed, too. Just about any strawberry seeds you fine online will be the alpine-...
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