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Old March 16, 2015   #31
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It's a piece of a tarp. I'm not really sure if it's a good idea or not. The few strawberries we had last year got eaten by bugs or rotted before they were ripe.
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It reminds me of black plastic, for here melon, and other plants that like warm soil may benefit. Gray mold (botrytis rot) maybe on the strawberries? Some cultivars are more resistant than others. I use captan fungicide before the plants have fruit. Works, but you must use acidic water to mix, or at least neutral, like bottled water, rain water, not tap. I have blueberries and have sulfuric acid on hand, what I use to acidify water. I also collect rain water. I don't spray the fruits. I apply early in the year before fruits form, every 7 days or after rain until fruit forms. Otherwise they are not worth growing here. Works for me!

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Old March 16, 2015   #33
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Snails love strawberries, use the organic snail baits like Sluggo. If you see like scooped out areas in the strawberries, it's snails or slugs. they feed at night. Sluggo works! Food grade DE might too? I use a generic organic cheaper sluggo type product. I think it is phosphoric acid?
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Well the transplanted strawberries appeared to have survived two full sun 80 degree days, some tonight i'll have the kids transplant the remaining 6 or so. I wasn't really surprised the leaves were a nice dark green already and they had impressive root systems.
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