I’m ripping out all my MdB. They are riddled with disease when there’s barely anything on the multitude of other varieties I have. Galleta that sit in a container adjacent/leaves touching is predominantly clean. Not worth it. Concerned about the soil they’ve been in.
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Question 1: can strawberries rot from just laying on wet ground? What do people do about this?
It’s been raining consistently now and some of my strawberries are rotting in place.
Question 2: What happened to this strawberry? It’s hard - not rotten. I kept waiting for it to ripen and I don’t think it will.
Even though it’s in a container, I know the soil didn’t dry out. However, the plant is on my very sunny deck and this plant is really flopped over.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure what kind it is. I got a few from friends and they didn’t know what they were.
I’d also like to report my second strawberry success! It is the Eversweet I got from a local nursery. Thank you everyone who helped me!
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Yes.
Yes, they rot when touching wet ground?
Is there a good fix? Mulch? Something else?
I like straw for strawberry mulch. It doesn’t hold water like bark mulch.
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Rot isn’t a big problem here since it’s our dry season but I’ve been having great success against pests by propping berries up on their foliage, for whatever reason that makes it hard enough the pill bugs and slugs don’t come for them. Wonder if that’d help with the rot
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I just joined the forum. My interest is in Fragaria vesca. I searched and didn’t find recent discussions. Is there still interest in alpine and woodland strawberries?
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I keep some just to keep some but mainly people want more rewards for less effort lol. Alpine seem to be less rewards for same effort lol. Plus there’s some upgrades with alpine lineage that taste better than and are even bigger than the old school alpine ones
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Great to see you here! It’s Stella. There are some threads on Alpine strawberries, and that’s where I learned about your site this winter. Here are just two, but if you search “alpine strawberries” a lot come up. Most of my alpines and woodlands started from seed this winter are producing, but the drought, high heat and catbird thieves have been hard, so I’ve only had a few or none of some of them. Ruegen and Deesse des vallees have been the most productive thus far- edit actually I looked ar my layout map of where I have a bunch planted too close together and that’s not accurate. Ruegen is more productive in a different container but in Tha one Ddv, Rdv, Regina and Waldsteinchen are equally producing, I think. I’m not keeping great records. I have not had enough to really be able to distinguish flavors from plant to plant. I got a red wonder the other day (although it might have been mignonette) and that seemed to be a slightly different and possibly tastier bite. Rodluvan has run and spread like crazy, but interestingly, not so much woodland. I know I have not gotten to try any Hawaii 4 or Pineapple crush yet, but I think all the other whites. The white Solemacher grew the best from the start so those are the most productive at the moment. Most I have are in containers of various types but I plan on changing those around this fall (reducing varieties in the multis) and planting more in ground. I’m growing nearly all the varieties offered at https://strawberryseedstore.com/
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I just bought 6 woodland strawberries this past spring. They are doing well, but I will not have berries until next year! 
Yes, strawbs will rot on wet ground fairly often, if you can keep them off wet soil that helps a lot (mulch, physically elevating them, etc)
That hard one happens to some of mine occasionally. No idea what causes it
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You’re right, it is my favorite. I wrote a substack post on it recently.
Which woodlands are you growing? One reason I came here is that I’m doing research on woodland strawberry cultivars Rödluvan and Snövit. I’m planning a five part substack series on Rödluvan. Seed saving is underway for these two.
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I bought it last May I will try and find the tag. I am in France.
Well, this isn’t great. So odd since same soil ingredients as all my other containers. And, drought and intense heat.
Is that because of the woodchips?
No idea. There’s only pine nugget in there. I’ll deal with it when it’s not so hot.
Speaking of nugget- I had much less rot last year when it rained nearly everyday and I mulched with straw. I had nugget on hand and used that this spring. I want to go back to straw, should I:
A) remove all nugget and put down straw?
B) just out the straw other the pine nugget?
A. if you put alot of heavy mulch around them when its wet and hot youll get root rot. i put some chicken bedding around mine and they started to suffer the more i watered them. i pulled it back about 12in. and they started to recover. straw when put down lightly, breathes much better.
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I started making videos for YouTube and TikTok if anyone watches things on there 
mainly strawberry content for now since it’s trending
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I keep saying I should but don’t have the time (usually) to make videos. 