The best way always is God's way to grow food and plants. Hence we see recently a very few farmers here to experiment with organic strawberry farming. In nature all grows in abundance, strong and delicious - a natural way.
Here a young farmer girl experiments with organic farming, using dry straw and dried grass to protect strawberries from touching soil.
Ideal would be to have low grass or any low growing plants to cover up the soil around strawberry plants. In nature we have wild strawberry plants growing amidst healthy strong grass, thus wild strawberries are touching grass instead of naked soil.
If other plants and grass are growing too high, the highest plants can be removed by hand and used as mulching - natural fertilizer!
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
Robert Nyman
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Strawberry runners to multiply plants. There are 2 methods to obtain new plants. Strawberry seeds - the small / tiny grain outside each strawberry is one such method. Seeds are tiny and as a general rule of thumb, the smaller a seed, the more delicate to actually grow a plant out of a seed.
Strawberry plants however are more commonly multiplied by use of runners. After each strawberry season, each plants grows several runners. As you see from below photo, a runner grows in an arch away from the plant and after approximately 20cm touches ground again. That is where the runner starts to grow leaves and roots - while continuing its runner growth. Each runner may grow up to approx 1 meter length and have several small plants.
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
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