My Ambivalent Relationship with Strawberries
I love strawberries. We grow strawberries, but are limited by several factors such as time and space requirements, my physical condition, price, and uncertainty of production. What do I mean? Strawberries take space that could grow crops with significantly more production and less labor. Ken plants them, weeds strawberries several times, composts, pulls out some of the runner plants, transplants, and maintains the crop over multiple seasons. Imagine transplanting cabbage or broccoli, weeding once and …
