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Jane - is that at the Civic Aud? Edith Kanakaole?
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Thanks Jane and Carrie! I will definately not miss it! Is it cash only? I would like to know where it is too... of course!
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Thanks for the info on the BIAN sale!!!
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It's at the Tennis Stadium (Edith Kanakaole). They take cash, checks and now also credit cards (big improvement!)
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Thanks Jane! I have it on my calendar. We are planting our trees today! Also vanilla and pepper vines. I am starting a pineapple patch too, underplanting citrus. I have two white crowns and one yellow one in the ground.
Kathy, I agree about the strawberries... when we grew them in CA they were snail attractors, big time. I have not seen any of the evil slugs yet!
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Devany, I was told that I have to keep my yellow & white pineapple separated by a hundred feet or so. Otherwise the yellow will cross with the white & you end up with all yellows. Of course, this comes with my standard disclaimer that someone TOLD me and I'm not an expert at all [
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On the slug front, I have been bleach dunking my produce. Plus I dehydrate 98% of everything that I get out of the garden. I'll copper band the bed if the snails get too obnoxious. Or move the berries to the screenhouse, who knows! I'm having berry withdrawls badly enough to jump through a lot of hoops to make it work.
We should all meet up for lunch before the BIAN sale in March to connect faces to names... and share BIAN plunder strategy, LOL.
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The BIAN sale is fun... & you can talk to the growers... a real plus! Very limited & popular plants do go fast though!
I also like the plant sales at rummage sales, usually you can speak to the growers there also : )
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That's right Kathy, let new strawberry plants get themselves established for the first year. Pick off the blossom stems and also the runners for that first season. You'll be rewarded with healthier plants and more, bigger berries in the following years.
Also, make sure the crown doesn't get covered while planting or you're inviting trouble in the form of disease and rot.
Mine are in raised beds inside the screenhouse, so slugs are not a problem. If they become so, I'll probably go the route of copper around the beds and hand-picking the buggers off the plants. :-P
My pineapples are all mixed together outside, and fairly closely planted. I guess I don't really care if they all revert to yellow - I just like pineapple and as long as they produce I'm happy. Just that it's hard to weed if I let it get away like it's done this winter... I guess that's why long sleeves and leather gloves were invented. ;-)
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Liz, thanks for straightening that out. Discourage runners as well as fruit. I remembered that when I was posting above, actually, and then got confused, thinking the poor thwarted plants should be allowed to do something. But no. They must focus! [:p]
yes, the crown high is the key, and mulch so that the leaves aren't on the dirt.
In Oakland I used redwood or fir compost (can't remember, it was more than seven years ago) to mulch around the elevated crowns. Remember something about how strawberries like the highly acidic forest compost and seem to recall that snails and slug bodies are irritated by this woody compost.
By the way, I do not use the recycled mulch. I love the idea, but I know what bad stuff goes into that mulch. I'm sure Roundup and other chemicals.
My pest contractor says the free mulch spreads pests from one area to the other.
It's a great concept but I don't need to import more problems, and I like to know what went into the mulch I use on food crops.
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