My strawberry plants have decided, since the box elder tree fell, that they now would like to live, thank you very much. Sadly, I have plans for where they have been and needed to move them. After moving a dozen to one of the back garden raised beds, I still had some plants hanging out. It was either smother them, dig them up and toss them, or dig them up and plant them somewhere.
Yesterday, while cleaning up in the back garden, I had a brainwave. Why not put those spare strawberry plants in the perennial fruit & veg corner, underneath the espalier pear tree? All that seems to want to grow under there is creeping nastiness (like ground mint, quack grass, and some rampant flowery thing with tentacles of doom). So if I plant something that creeps, fills in nicely and provides me with fruit I want, wouldn't that be better?
A quick dig and replant later, and I now have happy strawberry plants under my happy little pear tree. They should mix nicely with the expanding patch of Good King Henry (a spinach-like perennial herb), jerusalem artichokes, Egyptian Walking onions, and horseradish. For a little insight on why underplanting with strawberries might be a good idea for your garden, watch this video:
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