Strawberries can fall prey to a lot of different garden pests, from aphids to fruit flies to slugs, mites, and beetles. Some insect pests attack the leaves, the crown or the roots of the plants, while others consume the precious …
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Okra plants, being as unique as they are, have a tendency to be extremely picky about being transplanted. Their root system is comprised of a main tap root with branching lateral roots, similar to a carrot, and damaging/depriving these roots …
Strawberries are perennial plants, meaning that they come back each year for several years if they survive through the winter months. Some gardeners treat strawberries like any other annual plant and pull them once their main growing season is over, …
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Strawberry plants are most well known for their runners, properly known as stolons. While the strawberry fruits are key to reproduction, the plant itself will asexually reproduce by sending out runners and creating whole new strawberry plants, similar to winter …
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Fragaria × ananassa, commonly known as the garden strawberry, is a plant species belonging to the rose family Rosaceae that’s most commonly grown for its fruit, the eponymous strawberry. It has many cultivars and the fruit itself is widely popular, …