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Growing strawberries over black plastic

September 9, 2015October 12, 2017 Stephen Carlin

This really works! As a kid we went to strawberry farms which had huge rows of black plastic with strawberries planted along them, and it always seemed a bit mean to the plants to have them almost smothered, but it really works for growing strawberries in the home garden too.

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