Planting Strawberries

Supervising how to fill holes with water

Helping Prepare to Plant Strawberries

 

          I planted fifty strawberries about a month ago and bought another fifty at the end of the year sale at Gurneys.  My ground is dry and as I dug fifty holes for the berries my older grandson was filling the holes with water, a job that needed to be repeated a few times because the ground has been so dry.  Usually we plow it again but we couldn’t get the tiller to start and I wanted to get the berries in, they were very dry when they came in and didn’t look very good.

            About three quarter of the way through the filling of holes my grandson had to go use the restroom so he called his younger brother to take over the job while he was gone.  The first picture is of him telling him what he needed for him to do.  In the second picture you can tell the little brother is doing as his supervisor had told him.  When the first grandson came back he went to help Grandpa plant melons so the younger one was still filling holes with water.  As time wore on the younger boy kept telling his older brother he could have his job back; even though he had tired of the job the younger grandson was a good helper and kept on working with Grandma until the job was done. 

            When it came time to plant the strawberries everyone helped as that is the best part of the job, we put a couple of scoops of better dirt in the holes and made sure they were wet; then the plants went in and watered them again. 

I plant my strawberries like I plant my tomatoes except you need a better mulch than tomatoes; you can see a tuitorial at http://www.stitchthrutime.com/Planting_Tomatoes.html
An important thing to remember is don't plant your strawberries where you have planted tomatoes or potatoes within the last three or four years.

            Teaching the next generator is an important part of life, we don’t work in the garden, its we play in the garden.