Species 2. The fruit is longish, flower stalk is long. Fruits take more than a week to ripen.
Wild strawberry.
Easy to grow. Fruits are small and tasteless.
A three-tiers shoe-string budget strawberry planter project:
(Species 2 strawberry plants)
Ended up a disaster. The new location in the shaded car porch was too hot/dry (even though shaded). I lost the two mother plants but manage to save the daughter plant when I move the planter pot back to the former shady spot under a shrub with filtered sunlight.
I am still coaxing the surviving daughter plant to thrive and produce runners.
A hanging strawberry planters project:
(Species 1 strawberry plants)
The idea of having the strawberry plants high up from ground, free from snails and millipedes infestation sounds great, but ended up a disaster. The exposed sunny location is just unbearable. The leaves were getting burned and withering. Moving the pots to a more shaded spot under my passion fruit canopy also did not help. Lost all plants. Luckily I still have the mother plants snucked away in a corner under dense foliage.
After having 2 experimental disasters, I will KIV the idea of having rows of strawberry plants laden with yummy red fruits in my garden. Well, at least under my fruit trees are more mature to provide sufficient covers.
Cool micro-climate is a MUST it seems, with exposure to the morning dew and rain. So shaded car porch is a no-no.
16 Dec 2011
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