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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Yumm!
I love wild strawberries better the store bought too, they are so much sweeter and juicier.
When my spring isn't flowing I get tons of strawberries growing in the creek bed.
I've never transplanted any wild strawberry plants before, I hope they grow really good for ya!
That’s awesome! Well if it works for me maybe you can try transplanting yours too 😊
I have some wild raspberry plants growing beside the house and not where I'd like them, I have been debating on replanting them elsewhere.
Are you on Discord at all?
I think I have some raspberries up by the house too.
Yeah I am, but hardly use it.
I don’t even know how to send a private message 😕
What's your user? Mine is leemlaframboise#9930
I like the GINAbot on there, it gives me the notifications for comments, follows & unfollows, upvotes, comments, tags and I can have it notify me when a post with certain tags are posted.
Yeah you just spoke greek.
I will look you up
Seriously people are like “do you have discord” I say yes and tell them I hardly use it. No one taught me how to use it.
I know I have a username and numbers 😕
Is your discord name the same as your steemit name?
What discord server are you part of?
Yeah my name is the same. I have no idea what server
Nice looking little strawberries! They grow all over the place here in Upper Michigan, but the chipmunks normally get to them first. They also like the cultivated strawberries, the little buggers!
Hahaha! But they are soooo cute when they are turds
Hello!
I enjoyed your post, growing strawberries can be pretty rewarding! It's interesting that you transplanted the wild plants, I hadn't thought about that. I'm thinking that they should do pretty well for you though, they seem to be pretty hardy, at least, they are around here. Hopefully you'll get some berries from them this year.
Alaska perfume...smells like DEET... LOL
Yeah it was either transplant them or have them destroyed by big work trucks.
Yup Deet
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Any chance one could get some seeds off ya for the wild ones?
:)
We just bought some from the greenhouse but if there's wild ones up there they'll definitely grow down here in sask.
Can’t promise anything.
I don’t know if they will produce, and I will have to figure out how to save seeds.
I will post about them and their growth.
Sounds good! :)
I never had wild strawberries only strawberries we grew from roots and they did great last year. Doing ok this year and we already got around a gallon freezer bag's worth.
Everytime I go pick strawberries the rolly pollies and ants are at'em. So the few I get, my 3-yr old eats them. :D
Your wild strawberries should do fine under your care :) I think you're really good at it.
Dang that’s a good haul already!
I love Rollie pollies, wish we had them up here so my kiddos could play with them.
I hope they do well
No pollies in AK? 😀Well, we might want to showcase them in a video LOL. But kidding aside, I think sometimes I take it for granted that my children are exposed to a lot of critters that are really fascinating. I didn't know there aren't rollie pollies there, I'm sure there aren't from where I grew up.
I had to transplant my strawberries, hopefully they'd recover from the shock.😱