Harvested WILD Strawberries and added them to my garden

Strawberries grow wild in Alaska along with many other kinds of berries. Salmon berries, blue berries, watermelon berries, cranberries, raspberries, crow berries and strawberries. There might be a few more that I missed, but these are the ones I know of, most I have harvested. I haven’t had the chance to get salmon berries yet.

These where growing on the power line cut, since the power company needs to come and cut back some trees I wanted to save some that are in the middle.
I used a small shovel and dug down around them about 4 inches from their base.

there are some big strong ones hidden under some pine trees

But as you can see I targeted the ones that were in the middle of the cut. Last year I cut back a lot of the saplings so they could grow better.

Wild strawberries are sweeter then those in the store. The ones in the store are a highbrid of wild and a fast growing berry that’s bitter. That’s why straw berries don’t taste as good as they use to and you dip them in sugar.
I mean seriously the larger strawberries look good but normally are bitter. The smaller normally the sweeter.

So I dug some up, forgot to take pictures before hand, and loaded them into my cart.

But I needed a place for them, or a planter.
I literally just planted carrots today, so I couldn’t use my boxes. Phone was charging so no pictures of carrots being planted, can’t pause just because I can’t take pictures.

But I had some totes that can fit under the beds. You know the short ones that are long. Anyways, I drilled some drain holes, dug up some soil to add to the bottom of the tote and planted them.

The tote ended up not being large enough, so I needed more planters. I had some empty hanging baskets, so why not. They sell them in the store in the baskets.

I gave them all a good helping of fertilizer water, will check on them tomorrow

I hope they do well, these strawberries are tough. They winter over in Alaska and don’t die. With the ones in the tote I plan on at lease covering them in straw for winter, maybe take the basket inside and let t grow in the tent.

I may go get more, but as I was deciding it started to rain. Of corse right after I put on Alaskan perfume aka bug spray 😒

I will update more on their progress.

Well I hope you all are well and your gardens are flourishing.

Life in Alaska

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