I’ve heard late August/early September is a good time to trade strawberries. Is anyone interested in trading or selling me some of your runners? Based off of the tasty reviews I’ve read on this forum, I am interested in several varieties:
Mara De Bois
Musk (unsure of variety)
Charlotte
Albion
Mariguette
Galetta
I’m primarily interested to try several varieties to decide what works best for my location & taste buds. I am in the Trenton area and have many seeds available for trade, and am also happy to purchase as well.
I have all of those except Mariguette and i have many many more than listed.
After our false Fall coming soon i will be ready to do some trading… so lets start a trading thread in September. @Melon if you are like me and have too many strawb plants it would be a good time to do some trading i think.
I am recovering from sepsis and meningitis along with a new allergy to the antibiotic that they first gave me and we have a heat wave going on where I’m at right now. I am about 5-7 degrees hotter than where these recordings happen.
Good news though, I’m finally spayed and not hurting as much. Bad news, I’m limited in activities until further notice. They said around week 6, i can get back to my regular scheduled programming. I’m in week 3 right now.
Thank you, i added a few more June bearing to my list just cause so I’ll have some of those to share as well. I have some new ones that i sat on the ground and they’re throwing out runners like crazy.
I wanna do so much but most i can do is water half of my things right now and get my partner to help with the rest. Or do it little by little
i got tons of musks i could give you. put them somewhere you can control them as they spread like crazy. there are male and female plants so ill dig some from different parts of the patch. they are kind of cool because they are dull with slightly fuzzy leaves that is somewhat ornamental. i dont have many but i could dig you some galettas as well.
I have Albion to share. I was planning on up potting all the runners to sell in the neighborhood over the next month. Happy to give you some! Just seeing you say Trenton- that’s the Trenton in NJ?
Would be interested in a strawberry trading thread! I want some MdB. And, can you advise the best way you’ve found to pack and ship them? I’ve never sent a plant in the mail and having received good to awful, there’s clearly a way to do it so they make it mostly alive…
I can’t attest to its successfulness, but I’ve bought plants in the past that had shredded moist newspaper around the roots. It was easy to remove and something most folks can get their hands on for free.
Personally i dont want anyone elses dirt… so i would rather give and receive washed roots in anything from paper towels to newspaper etc.
Strawberry plants are pretty tough other than shock of heat or drying out when they have foliage. When they are dormant i think they are near bulletproof.
I sent a bunch out earlier this season, plucked from their pots and wrapped in ziplock bags with a wet paper towel. Everyone that’s received them, received them alive this way. Before, i was washing the roots and sending them in ziplock but i guess the heat killed some or fungus got them
and we have a heat wave going on where I’m at right now. I am about 5-7 degrees hotter than where these recordings happen.
