Strawberry Bed

How I got a strawberry bed.

1. Find a big red cedar tree
2. Cut down the tree
3. Load the cedar logs onto a trailer and take to saw mill to be sawed into boards
4. Make the bed from the cedar lumber
5. Go to the river bottoms and get a load of river dirt
6. Go get a load of sand
7. Mix dirt and sand in the newly built bed.
8. Plant strawberry plants
9. Cut off blooms and runners and wait 1 year
10. Next year, hopefully we'll get buckets full of sweet strawberry's.

Cutting the red cedar tree into a 14 foot log



Loaded log ready for the trip to the saw mill



The strawberry bed half full of dirt
14x4

The cedar tree log got us three 2x6 14 foot long
and six 1x6 14 foot long
and six 1x6 8 foot long


I used cedar because of its natural resistance to rotting. (no need to buy and use the toxic treated lumber) Eastern red cedar is also aromatic and will help to deter insects.
Hopefully next year we'll have sweet strawberry's.  I planted 50 honeoye plants.
Honeoye are reliable and bear in June.