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Thu, Feb 23, 12 at 15:40
| Has anyone started alpine strawberries? It says they need a cold period, so I figured winter sow, but it also says to start indoors. I prefer to w/s (of course) but was wondering if anyone has experience with these? |
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- Posted by mao_tse_mom z5 Oh (maozamom@hotmail.com) on Thu, Feb 23, 12 at 17:02
| I wintersowed Alpine strawberries a few years ago and had very good luck with them. mao |
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- Posted by organic_ns 6a NS (My Page) on Thu, Feb 23, 12 at 17:34
| I have tried both ways with Mignonette (which are very similar to an Alpine). I found that the plants I started indoors were better. The seedlings are very tiny to start with, but the ones I winter-sowed were about 1/2 the size of the indoor plants. Having said that, I'm sure they would have caught up once planted in their permanent spots, I just had so many plants that I didn't bother. |
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- Posted by kimka z7 (jkkaplan@erols.com) on Fri, Feb 24, 12 at 9:20
| I had just the opposite experience from organic ns with alpine strawberries Alexandria. My winter sown seed shad a much higher germination rate and much stronger plants and bore strawberries the first summer. I just looked on line and boy there are a lot of new strawberries varieties from seed available new for 2012. I may have to add a few more seeds. |
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