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Bv DIANE REEF
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Delicious strawberries can be grown in the home garden.
Strawberries will produce more fruit in a small space than almost any other berry crop. Twenty-five plants are enough for a row approximately 40 feet long. They should produce 25 or more quarts of berries next spring if planted this year.
Select several varieties to give early, midseason and late harvest. Earlidawn is one of the best, very eaHy varieties as its blossoms are somewhat tolerant to cold. Catskill and Pocahontas are fine for midseason. Surecrop and Redchief will provide large crops of late fruit. Marlate is popular since it bears friiit a week or more after the other late varieties.
(Everbearing (varieties produce fewer berries which are generally of lower quality, but new varieties are beginning to show promise. . You'll find strawberries are ah easy crop to raise on fertile, welldrained soil with a pH between 5.7 aqd 6.5. Fertilization is seldom necessary on good soils supplied with organic matter. Where a soil test indicates the need, about one pound per 100 feet of row of a complete fertilizer, such as 10-10-10 or 10-6-4, should be cultivated into the soil before planting.
Strawberries should be planted in the spring three or four weeks before the average date of the last frost in your locality. Set the plants 12 to 24 inches apart, in rows three
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