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    Nikki on
    July 5, 2011
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    Heather on
    July 22, 2011
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    It sounds like you have a plant that is prone to fused blossoms. What you essentially have is siamese twin (triplet, quadruplets, etc) fruit. The plant produced flowers that were fused together and the fruit grow together into rather knobby, blob like shapes.

    It is not harmful and the fruit is just as tasty. Just a little ugly is all. It is common on plants like tomatoes, but can happen on any flowering plant. Most of the time you will see just one or two, but you can get an oddball plant occasionally that is prone to producing like that.

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    Heather on
    August 18, 2011
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    Heather on
    August 23, 2011
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    It may be lacking phosphorous or they may not be getting enough light. Give them some bone meal for phosphorous and make sure that they are getting enough sunlight.

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    Heather on
    August 26, 2011
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    Among the chemical weed killers, a broad leaf weed killer should take care of most of your common weeds. On the organic side, you can look for pre-emergent type weed killers. As strawberries propagate by runners, the weed killer would only affect the weed seeds.

    The best way to get more berries is to have happy plants. Mulching, fertilizing and good watering practices will all help. They like a little extra bone meal to help with blooming and fruit production as well.

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    Nikki on
    October 3, 2011
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    It depends on where you live. If you live somewhere with freezing temps in the winter, I would not plant or move them after late fall. If you live somewhere that does not get freezing temps, then you can actually transplant during the winter, though early spring would be preferable.

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