How to plant bare-root strawberries

We are out here in the Good Day Garden. It is a gorgeous, sparkling morning. We got David Whitwam from Whitwam Organics. We're not technically in the garden. We're garden adjacent. My new favorite place. Because, first of all, our garden looks amazing. Everything is growing beautifully in there. But we've got a couple of things that we're wanting to put in that look really good too. So we're gonna still keep growing them. And I don't know if you'll remember the last time I was in the garden, we had these little strawberry, what did you call them? Bare root strawberry. They were bare root strawberries. So they looked like their poor things were dying, but we trimmed them up, we put them back in soil and look how good they look now. Yep. They look so healthy, David. So now this is what we would probably refer to as like a strawberry plug. Okay. Right, or a started plant. And you can pop that right in the ground and get going. You could absolutely pop that right in the ground and get going, but we're not ready. We're not ready. We don't have a ground to pop them into. Because the garden looks so good right now. Because the garden is full. But the plants should be or could be up planted so that they can keep growing. So when plants fill in their pot size, a lot of times they'll stall out and stop growing. So basically, I'm just going to take these and put them in one pot size larger than what we had before. So these were in little six packs and I'm just going to like place this in here and there you go. This is so much easier with two people because I can hold the plant. Okay, stop. And then I can tuck the soil in around it. Now you can go ahead and fill it up again. That's probably good. Yay! And then there you have it. Look at that little baby strawberry plant. So we can take this, if there's enough room in the garden, we could take this and put it in the garden. But we don't want to crowd it out. Well, we have automatic irrigation. So if you want to just start getting it acclimated to the space and the space is not ready, we could just set this in the garden. And then we can also do the same thing with lettuce. These look so good. So this is one of my favorite things. So what we're kind of talking about with the lettuce is called succession planting. You want to go ahead and pop one of those out? Yeah, look, we've got all these little trays of them and he's taught me a little trick. To try to get... Keep going. Oh, there you go. Look at that. Yep. It's like a little lettuce cube. So in these, they also have started stalling out and growing. So we want to go ahead and move them up one size. So I can put them in these little four packs. Okay. And let's put this little guy in there too. Yep. And this just allows them to keep growing so our plants are getting bigger and bigger. Now, let's talk about the lettuce. Throughout a growing season, you might harvest your entire head of lettuce. Okay. Right? So now you've got nothing there. And then the option A would be then to put new seeds in there. So if in the background somewhere else you have this kind of an operation going, you could have bigger plants because if they start filling this in and I don't have room, I can then put them in a bigger pot. And they just keep getting bigger and bigger. So by the time you're actually putting your lettuce in, you have a plant that you might be able to harvest in like a week. I was going to say, how far would harvest, how long would it take to harvest from this to edible lettuce? Well, we could eat it right now. I mean, this would be like baby greens, right? So I would say from this size to full harvest, another three to four weeks. It's amazing. So not long at all. So if you have some lettuce grown in your garden and you have some growing in seed trays and you have some growing in smaller pots, you could essentially like quadruple the size of your garden. What about how long to harvest for this? They'll probably start putting out flowers in another three to four weeks and potentially we could have strawberries for Christmas. Oh, that's so exciting. All right, David, thank you. Good to have you with us as always. Good to see you. Happy growing.