i think i want to- we all love them and the plants are pretty even when they're done bearing fruit.

i can't decide where to get them though. i am thinking seeds of change, but i have read some bad things about their customer service. i did find another company online that sells organic strawberry plants but i hadn't ever heard of them. i'm pretty sure any local place i'd buy them would not be organic.

anybody else planning on them, and if so where are you going to get them?

i wish they would quit taking over my entire yard. so evidently we're growing them.

:lol: i hope they're yummy, at least.

I plan on using them for ground cover, but still haven't ordered.

I want to grow them in a container so they don't take over the yard.

Raintree Nursery, fruit, nut and berry plants for the American fruit grower (http://www.raintreenursery.com/)

We're ordering from here (I think they are in Jodi's area of the world). I am almost certain they have organic strawberries. We only get a few catalogs and I have them on my list from somewhere. but you should confine strawberries if you don't want them all over the place.

This place has some great miniature and dwarf fruit trees. We are getting apples and a few other berries for ground cover. And a nice loganberry weeping tree for the entrance of our garden.

I was thinking about growing them upright in something like this, only home made because I can't afford these:

Living Wall Panel Outdoor Planter buy Living Wall Gardener's Supply (http://www.gardeners.com/Living+Wall+Outdoor+Planter/PatioPlanters_Cat,37-001RS,default,cp.html)

I'm in Alaska and have goats, so I have to think outside the ground cover. ;)

Rhea

cool ideas, thanks!

I was thinking about growing them upright in something like this, only home made because I can't afford these:

Living Wall Panel Outdoor Planter buy Living Wall Gardener's Supply (http://www.gardeners.com/Living+Wall+Outdoor+Planter/PatioPlanters_Cat,37-001RS,default,cp.html)

I'm in Alaska and have goats, so I have to think outside the ground cover. ;)

Rhea

wow, that is WEIRD! I mean, weird in a cool kind of way....

I have a question...those strawberry pots... are those actually good for strawberries and getting a decent amount of fruit? Forgot to mention that it is a dumb question!

wow, that is WEIRD! I mean, weird in a cool kind of way....

I have a question...those strawberry pots... are those actually good for strawberries and getting a decent amount of fruit? Forgot to mention that it is a dumb question!

When you say pots do you mean those wall things, or strawberry pots where it's a big pot with "holes" for putting the plants in?

As for the wall things, I have no idea. But there is no other way I can grow them except up where the animals can't get to them. (If it's not my goats, it's the neighbor's goat who comes to visit.) They won't be able to winter over in the wall things, they'd die. If we actually do make a wall thing for them, I'd make it deeper.

In a book I can't put my hands on right now, they have pics and instructions for growing strawberries in an upright black pipe. It's 8" or 10" in diameter, with holes drilled for the plants. It makes this beautiful column of strawberry plants.

Rhea

Rhea, I was referring to the terra cotta pots with holes in them.

The upright pipe sound sinteresting. If you do find the book later, please post a picture or something that an less than average Jane might be able to assemble!

thanks

in a pot, does that count? :)