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TerriLaChicks said:
I’ve never done them before either, but a coworker was telling me her neighbor keeps them in an old bathtub filled halfway w/potting soil. She puts a tarp over it when it’s cold and in the spring has fresh strawberries. We have the old bathtub we used to water our horses in so I figured why not give it a try? I’m going to put about a dozen plants in there & see how it goes. I love strawberries!

This is the time of year you plant them. They'll fruit in the spring.
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I have strawberry plants. I don't cover them at all during the winter. I have a terrible time with ants getting at the ripening berries and eating holes in them. So maybe raising them (like you said with the bathtub) is a good idea. They sure are yummy but you would have to have a LOT of plants to get a significant amount of berries.......like enough to make jam or something. I don't care though I love having the plants around and we even give the tops to the bunny to enjoy. He loves them!
 
LemonMeringue said:
I have strawberry plants. I don't cover them at all during the winter. I have a terrible time with ants getting at the ripening berries and eating holes in them. So maybe raising them (like you said with the bathtub) is a good idea. They sure are yummy but you would have to have a LOT of plants to get a significant amount of berries.......like enough to make jam or something. I don't care though I love having the plants around and we even give the tops to the bunny to enjoy. He loves them!
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Louisiana have the BEST tasting strawberries, IMO, hands down! California might be bigger, but they only look good! LOL I grew them for years, South of the lake and they grew them for years where I live, now, LITTERALLY, this was a strawberry farm after they harvested the trees, then after they poisoned the soil with commercial fertilizer, they sold all the spent top soil, so it is taking a lot of manure to replenish it. I raised a small bed a couple of years ago and harvested a couple hands full every other day from a 4'x4' bed, but then the ants came in and ran me out. I gave my daughter some, but the ones she got from Lowes, starting with just one plant, grew into a 4x12 bed raised and filled with composted manure from my horse manure compost pile and rabbit manure, she picks a quart every week that strawberries are in season. Now is the season for planting, to get spring berries. I haven't used any chemicals anywhere, for 38 years when my younger daughter was allergic to everything including babyfood, but broke down and sprinkled a little borax on the ant hills on the lawn, this morning! I am so allergic to the ones out this way! They are tiny black ants but their bites sting like fire, and if I don't attend to it right away, my nightfall, the bites are infected. Raised beds and intensive planting is the only way I ever gardened, but my whole garden was a compost pile. All organic matter got tucked in somewhere and everything was under a constant shredded leaf mulch. Every other Saturday, I took the pickup to a local stable and shoveled up the composted manure, but she had food and eventually grew out of most of her allergies, so it was well worth the effort. Neighbors would tease me that if anyone ever lost a finger, they could plant it in my garden and grow another body from it in a week! Here, it's mostly gumbo mud, but it's getting there. Sweet taters do great, but I think they are a member of the morning glory vine and they grow wild everywhere around here. An old fashion bath tub with those round claw ball looking legs would look great in any landscape and a bench next to it would be handy, at picking time.
These super sweet carrots, they sell ,cut into small carrot shaped pieces grow very well, too, as well as okra and watermelons. South of the lake we had topsoil as deep as you could dig without machinery. That's why houses had to be built on 40 to 60 foot pilings. No hard strata!
 
Does anyone know if pawpaw fruit trees grow well in Louisiana? I hear the fruit looks like a guava and tastes like a banana? I have some seeds, but it says they do best in partial shade? The oranges are starting to ripen, since we got some cold. Second year for the Mandarin and the tree is only about 4 feet high and has stakes in the ground to hold the branches up or the fruit would be laying on the ground! LOL It will be the first fruit on the navel but they are in one little cluster on the west side, while the east side is, rather was, blooming! Is that normal? The Satsuma died 3 years in a row and we replanted. This was the third year for this one, but no fruit yet. It bloomed, but never set fruit. It is close to the house in partial shade, Should we dig it up and move it to full sun? Hubby wants one of those loose skin Satsuma. I think he said they were called Becknell's?
 
Celie said:
Does anyone know if pawpaw fruit trees grow well in Louisiana? I hear the fruit looks like a guava and tastes like a banana? I have some seeds, but it says they do best in partial shade? The oranges are starting to ripen, since we got some cold. Second year for the Mandarin and the tree is only about 4 feet high and has stakes in the ground to hold the branches up or the fruit would be laying on the ground! LOL It will be the first fruit on the navel but they are in one little cluster on the west side, while the east side is, rather was, blooming! Is that normal? The Satsuma died 3 years in a row and we replanted. This was the third year for this one, but no fruit yet. It bloomed, but never set fruit. It is close to the house in partial shade, Should we dig it up and move it to full sun? Hubby wants one of those loose skin Satsuma. I think he said they were called Becknell's?
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yes we have paw paws here they do grow here ( paw paw=Arkansas banana) LOL

Jeff
 
Celie said:
Does anyone know if pawpaw fruit trees grow well in Louisiana? I hear the fruit looks like a guava and tastes like a banana? I have some seeds, but it says they do best in partial shade? The oranges are starting to ripen, since we got some cold. Second year for the Mandarin and the tree is only about 4 feet high and has stakes in the ground to hold the branches up or the fruit would be laying on the ground! LOL It will be the first fruit on the navel but they are in one little cluster on the west side, while the east side is, rather was, blooming! Is that normal? The Satsuma died 3 years in a row and we replanted. This was the third year for this one, but no fruit yet. It bloomed, but never set fruit. It is close to the house in partial shade, Should we dig it up and move it to full sun? Hubby wants one of those loose skin Satsuma. I think he said they were called Becknell's?
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Some citrus takes five years to bear a good crop of fruit. Mine are in full sun.i have navel, Persian lime, key lime,Mayer lemon, Lisbon lemon, and I just planted cooking pear and apple pear. I'm trying to find a pecan tree haven't had any luck finding one. Pam
 
Ron Skekel said:
Some citrus takes five years to bear a good crop of fruit. Mine are in full sun.i have navel, Persian lime, key lime,Mayer lemon, Lisbon lemon, and I just planted cooking pear and apple pear. I'm trying to find a pecan tree haven't had any luck finding one. Pam
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No one's pecan trees did good the last 2 years in my area. Not sure what went wrong. We used to have so much that we would have to sell them, now it's not even enough for holiday baking.
 
That's what I've been told by the nurseries I have tried to find one at. When I was young they were all over the place. All my relatives had them in their yard. Now I don't know anyone that has a pecan tree. Pam
 

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