new roots for Jean's daughters

this particular wild strawberry has been very reproductive...

produced this daughter plant, which...

produced this daughter i pinned in a flowerpot and transplanted, and which, in turn, has produced a daughter of its own...additionally the original plant from new york...

produced yet another daughter ( the one next to my hand, not the one in the flowerpot...more on that in a bit )

theh plant in the bed on the south side of the house has a robust daughter...however the real reason for this post ( this is all old news ) is...

the second plant in the east bed had produced a daughter which i pinned in another flowerpot...

and it has taken root and, in a week or two ( depending on how the weather goes ) i will snip that stolon and plant this on in the bed with the other transplanted daughter...so far the climate has cooperated in allowing the offspring the time to root...hopefully it will continue long enough for all of the plants to develop well enough to overwinter...we will see.

Jean has many daughters

there is something of a late summer population explosion going on amongst the new york imports...the plant in the first photo has produced the daughter plants in the next three and the daughter in the fourth photo is working on her own daughter...so one plant begets four more...the plant in the fifth photo is producing the daughter i have pegged in a flower pot in the sixth while the plant in the seventh has produced the daughter in the eighth...so...three plants become nine...exponential growth in colonizing perennials...no surprise...actually pleased they are investing the energy in growth rather than fruit...next season can be for berries.

one of Jean's new york daughters has moved

Jean's nest of imported wild strawberries in the east bed out back has one less resident this morning...but she hasn't gone far...the stolon that i pegged in a buried flower pot a while back has taken root and produced a stolon of its own (first photo )...i have to begin to spread these daughters out or they will overrun their environments ( like all perennial they are invasive )...the bed in the second photo was a potato patch and still has some active spuds going on ( third )...it also has wild berries growing along the side of a bed in close proximity ( fourth and fifth ) and since spuds cannot grow there next year it seemed a good spot fore a strawberry patch...so i took a shovel and a warren hoe to it ( sixth )...then i went to he east bed and snipped the stolon connecting the daughter to the mother so i ended up with a daughter plant and the stolon it has produced free in a flowerpot ( seventh through ninth )...i dug out a hole in the bed and tossed in a few handfuls of compost ( tenth )and i removed the daughter from the flowerpot very gently and laid it out in my hand ( eleventh )...the tap root on the plant was easily long enough to have reached the bottom through a drainage hole ( it would have )...i planted it towards the back center of the bed i had prepared ( twelfth and thirteenth )so i would not disturb it when i harvested the potatoes still up and running there ( mostly blues )...i will let that stolon on this daughter go where it will for now...if it strays too close to a spud we may have to intervene...we will if necessary.