last year, when i planted these wild strawberries, i expected invasive behaviors based on prior experience with domesticated strawberries which are not shy about producing daughter plants...i did not really expect this sort of irruption...but there it is...there are thirty-eight stolons in this photo of the east bed...just over half of the total of seventy i inventoried this morning...
placement of daughters, beyond a suitable distance from the mother plant, does not seem to be a matter of any great importance...this daughter is rooted next to an onion ( which will complicate the onion harvest ) and the stolon has moved on towards the periphery of the bed...
the south bed is somewhat less prolific in stolons...however there were more blooms here....and berries ( more there in a minute)...even still, at least one daughter is trying to escape the confines of the bed...
the north bed is the poorest in all respects...the plants are spreading but at a much slower rate...fewer stolons...no discernible berries...my presumption is the same shade that helps the ramps thrive has somewhat stunted the berries...
even with all the other unbridled activity in the beds, Jean's berries have managed to come to fruition...this is a ripe as they come...red in the south bed sunshine...it was warm, sweet, and tasted fine...which evokes a thought...but that is another post.
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