Strawberries grow wild in Alaska along with many other kinds of berries. Salmon berries, blue berries, watermelon berries, cranberries, raspberries, crow berries and strawberries. There might be a few more that I missed, but these are the ones I know of, most I have harvested. I haven’t had the chance to get salmon berries yet.
These where growing on the power line cut, since the power company needs to come and cut back some trees I wanted to save some that are in the middle.
I used a small shovel and dug down around them about 4 inches from their base.
there are some big strong ones hidden under some pine trees
But as you can see I targeted the ones that were in the middle of the cut. Last year I cut back a lot of the saplings so they could grow better.
Wild strawberries are sweeter then those in the store. The ones in the store are a highbrid of wild and a fast growing berry that’s bitter. That’s why straw berries don’t taste as good as they use to and you dip them in sugar.
I mean seriously the larger strawberries look good but normally are bitter. The smaller normally the sweeter.
So I dug some up, forgot to take pictures before hand, and loaded them into my cart.
But I needed a place for them, or a planter.
I literally just planted carrots today, so I couldn’t use my boxes. Phone was charging so no pictures of carrots being planted, can’t pause just because I can’t take pictures.
But I had some totes that can fit under the beds. You know the short ones that are long. Anyways, I drilled some drain holes, dug up some soil to add to the bottom of the tote and planted them.
The tote ended up not being large enough, so I needed more planters. I had some empty hanging baskets, so why not. They sell them in the store in the baskets.
I gave them all a good helping of fertilizer water, will check on them tomorrow
I hope they do well, these strawberries are tough. They winter over in Alaska and don’t die. With the ones in the tote I plan on at lease covering them in straw for winter, maybe take the basket inside and let t grow in the tent.
I may go get more, but as I was deciding it started to rain. Of corse right after I put on Alaskan perfume aka bug spray 😒
I will update more on their progress.
Well I hope you all are well and your gardens are flourishing.
Life in Alaska
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