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.
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