Topic: What Does One Plant After Strawberries ?

[Foxy Magic]

Please could anyone tell me what to plant in beds that have previously had strawberries in?

Thanks!

[OliveOil]

strawbs should be in a permanent bed apparently so i cant help you with my limited knowledge

[Foxy Magic]

I've read that they should be moved from their permanent site every 3 - 4 years,but it didn't say what to plant after them.

Also, which bed (ie after which crop) should they be moved to.

The crop rotation plans I have seen don't include strawberries, so I am a bit perplexed!

[OliveOil]

well thinking of the PYO strawb farms about they don't move theirs... spose you could rest it for a year/??? or someone with knowledge will come along any second now with a brilliant answer lol.

[kt.]

As my first strawberry beds will be harvested this year I am in the novice section here. But I like your idea OliveOil ;)

Just replace at least 50% of the bed with fresh manure or compost?

[Deb P]

As strawberries like acidic soil, ? potatoes after them?

If you manured well as KTL suggests, potatoes would help break the soil up a bit and they are less scab prone in a more acid soil.

[Foxy Magic]

Thank you - that's very helpful  :)

[Stevens706]

Hi

One of the old boys on our site has a great system for strawberries, he has 4 rows and every year plants another row with new plants, and then digs up the first row (keeping it to 4 rows). This means replacing strawberries ever 4 years and the strawberry bed slowly moves down his plot.

[jennym]

If you apply manure every year around the strawberry plants as ktl says, there isn't a lot that can't be grown afterwards, save cabbage for the very reason that as Deb P indicates, the soil will be more acidic, and cabbages prefer it a bit more alkali.
OliveOil - Round here, the PYO farms replace the plants on a new site every 4th year for field grown crops, and change the soil every year for tabletop crops.
Stevens706, one of the chaps on the allotments here does the very same thing, moving the bed along gradually.

[manicscousers]

 we will be growing potatoes, kestrel in the strawberry bed we emptied last year, a good covering of very well rotted manure, bit of rooster before we plant, then green manure when the spuds come out  :)

[Foxy Magic]

Excuse my ignorance,but what is rooster ?

[Deb P]

A nice way of saying pelleted chicken manure! ;D

[nenerover]

Hi All,
          I suggest you leave your strawberries where they are in the same beds but renew the plants every 4 or 5 years, there are quite a few varieties to chose from.
Regards Peter
PS as someone already mentioned the PYO strawberry fields are always there the following year so I'd copy the farmer.

[Mrs Ava]

My strawb bed is slowely moving down the allotment.  I also add to it when kindly peeps give me fresh strawb plants.  It is working well and daughter number one always has more strawbs that she can eat.