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jp11

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Sun May 27, 2012, 05:50 PM May 2012

Strawberry plants, questions, different types? *DIALUP WARNING* [View all]

I bought some roots from the store this year. I had tried getting seeds to grow last year but the things that actually sprouted just became giant towering leafy monsters with no strawberries. I used seeds from store bought strawberries and some I scoured from some frozen ice-cream strawberries.

So this is what I've got so far from the roots I bought:


This doesn't look like the other plants from the same batch, the one in the middle is different than the others and the one in the lower left corner looks like the others do. Also I have those smaller 4 leaf plants around the one in the center popping up all over the place. I assume it is some weed from the soil?

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I have one other like this.
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This is what other strawberry plants from that batch look like, the large one in the center. Again I don't know what those smaller somewhat spade shaped plants are or the more longer leafed tongue shaped ones are, random soil seed 'weeds'?

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And the biggest of the plants:
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So is this 'right' there are supposed to be different types to get the bees to cross pollinate or do I have something else going on like weeds?

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Here goes! kurtzapril4 May 2012 #1
Thanks a million. jp11 May 2012 #2
I can identify the spade-leafed weeds Curmudgeoness May 2012 #3
Thank you. jp11 May 2012 #4
LOL. You are really going to enjoy gardening Curmudgeoness May 2012 #5
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