As an apartment bound farmer, I take every opportunity I can to get my hands dirty. So when one of my good friends and fellow grower wanted some help building some strawberry beds at his parents house, I jumped at the opportunity.

They had already torn up the the old strawberry patch that was about 12×12 ft. It would produce some strawberries,but was so big it was hard to to manage the weeds. It was also hard to harvest any berries in the middle. That afternoon we built 4  5×5 boxes so there would be a 2 ft path way.

While we setting up the new beds i saw the distinctive strawberry leaves, I asked if I could try and transplant some to see if I could get them to grow on my balcony. I was able to find 5 small plants along the edges that seemed to be a good size.

After we got the new beds put in, I headed home to start the transplant process. So I have never tried this before but I took all 5 plants and put them in the pot and added some water left it to time.

As I sit here typing I can see that 1 have already died, 2 plants are looking good and 2 is holding on for dear life!

I was not even on planing on growing strawberries until I have my on plot of land in the far future, but this was an opportunity that I could not pass up. I mean free strawberries! I now hope to have at least one plant survive, so that I can watch it take off. I can also practice/watch the runners start new plants so i can replicate this in the future.

This will let me get some experience. Who knows a may add a blueberry plant to get a perennial forest in the sky!

-Hunter (gardening in sky)