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1. 

   Maris

   on 6th Mar, 10 04:03am

   I grow strawberries in the full sun. I do plant them up a bit higher than other plants – just on a mound of dirt – or sometimes even in a big pot that has holes in the tops and sides. They grow great that way!

2. 

   Cat

   on 6th Mar, 10 05:03am

   They grow about 12 inches tall. Put straw around as the plants emerge in the spring – it keeps the fruits off the dirt – they stay cleaner and are less susceptible to soil-borne diseases and fungi.

3. 

   snow

   on 6th Mar, 10 05:03am

   strawberries grow very low to the groung no support need. blackberries grow from tall caines they don’t have to have support but are much easier to manage if you use some kind of support. blackberrys are very invasive and covered with sharp thorns something to keep in mind when planning a garden.

4. 

   Richard M

   on 6th Mar, 10 05:03am

   Strawberries are a bush and lay on the ground until harvest, so mulch around them.
   They also sell strawberry planters, were the plants are planted in slot in the pot and are then suspended, where the are less susceptible to predators.(snails, slugs,sow bugs(doodle bug,rolly pollie))
   Blackberries can be trained to a trellis.

5. 

   Máire Siobhán

   on 6th Mar, 10 06:03am

   I’m sure there’s good gardening info on the Web, but I watch my dad tend a garden every summer, and here’s what I know.

   Strawberries grow from small plants. They should be covered with straw early in the spring of the growing season when you first put them in the ground, and they grow up through the straw. They support themselves (if you are asking “do they need some kind of brace to help them stay upright, like tomatoes,” the answer is “no”). The plants stay fairly small. Like everything, they need good sunlight for the fruit to ripen, so don’t plant your garden under shade trees!

   Blackberries grow on brambly bushes that get pretty big. I would plan the garden with these away from the “row plants” so they can expand as they need to. Maybe make them a hedge out to the side of the garden. Blackberry bushes aren’t “garden plants”.

   Hope that helps!

6. 

   Larry E

   on 6th Mar, 10 06:03am

   Strawberry’s grow on plants that don’t need staked up but they have to covered with straw over the winter. It takes a few years to get them well established. Black berries grow on real Thorny bushes. They will take an area over and are real nasty. If you want them they grow wild in ditches and timbers in the wild.

7. 

   jane k

   on 6th Mar, 10 07:03am

   Put netting over the strawberries as they ripen as they are often stolen /stripped by birds.

8. 

   grannygrunt28391

   on 6th Mar, 10 07:03am

   Photo
   They grow low and spread/runners Don’t cut the runners off. Hope that you have bought everbearing so that they will grow next year as well.
   Picture dosen’t show straw but put some around the plants and don’t put HAY too many weed seeds.
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsemily/195413864/
   Reason for name strawberrys.The staw used underneath.
   The Naming of Strawberries
   The name strawberry came about easily because straw was used freely to mulch the plants during the winter, a practice that discourages weeds and lifts the berries up from the soil.
   http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch45.html#Name
   New way/ plastic for the strawberrys instead of straw.
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/9988226@N04/1043013142/
   Don’t just use any fertilizer use one with 10-52-17
   http://gurneys.com/product.asp?pn=15423&bhcd2=1201403028

   Growing Blackberries in Your Home Garden
   http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/ec/ec1303/

   Fertilizer
   Fertilize in early spring when growth starts and again just after harvest. A complete fertilizer such as 10-10-10 is satisfactory. Apply at the rate of 5 pounds per 100 feet of row. A pint of fertilizer weighs about 1 pound.
   http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/hgic1400.htm

9. 

   Angelita

   on 6th Mar, 10 08:03am

   all good answers, I had a small garden where I planted a variety of things and since strawberries spread, after 1-2 years after the strawberries were well established, I put large round rocks in the garden to space the plants and used them as stepping stones while I picked the fruit. the stones acted as a border too for the most part to stop them from overgrowing into the lawn etc.
   I have heard and seen that blackberries/rasberry plants grow on the edges of forests…or areas…

10. 

    cherry babe

    on 6th Mar, 10 08:03am

    !strawberries are very low spreading plant!

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