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Alpine Strawberry Problems. Help!
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I had 2 lovely alpine strawberry plants. We all enjoyed picking the strawberries to go in meringues with cream :-)
They were doing really well until this week. Something has eaten the leaves. The leaves are how can I explain, skeletons, no green bits in between the veins. Sorry not a good explanation. The stalks are still nice and green with no damage. There are still strawberries on them. I have slug pellets down.
Have I lost them
, can I save them?
I had 2 lovely alpine strawberry plants. We all enjoyed picking the strawberries to go in meringues with cream :-)
They were doing really well until this week. Something has eaten the leaves. The leaves are how can I explain, skeletons, no green bits in between the veins. Sorry not a good explanation. The stalks are still nice and green with no damage. There are still strawberries on them. I have slug pellets down.
Have I lost them
, can I save them? 0
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They are robust plants and will probably survive without your doing anything.But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,Had the whole of their cash in his care.
Lewis Carroll0 -
sounds like some kind of caterpillar (sp) not a disease.
alpines normally throw off a lot of runners so plant em up and lets hope extra plants make up for the damage.Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).
(I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,
(Sylvia Pankhurst).0 -
Thank you both for your replies. Lets hope they pull through :-)0
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Mine got destroyed by the chooks last year. and this year i got my first strawbs."if the state cannot find within itself a place for those who peacefully refuse to worship at its temples, then it’s the state that’s become extreme".Revd Dr Giles Fraser on Radio 4 20170
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Could also be wild birds, sparrows stripped my beetroot and left them in a similar state to your strawbs judging by your description0
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