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Question by Crystal T: How long until a blossom on a strawberry plant becomes a strawberry? Do tomato plants kill strawberry plants?
I just got a strawberry plant and a little white blossom just popped up. Will this blossom become a strawberry? How long until the strawberry starts to grow? And then how long until it ripens?
Secondly, if I plant my strawberry plant next to my tomato plant, will they strangle each other or anything? Can they be planted next to each other (or about six feet apart?
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Answer by frank
It will take about a week before you will get a ripe strawberry. Do not plant tomatoes next to strawberries, because tomatoes can become 6 feet high, and will shade other plants, and take the nutrients out of the soil that other plants need. Also, tomatoes should never be watered over head because they get viruses on them.
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chris ,are tomatoes could be grown in summer,im in the bahamas ,hoping u can help ?
It will take more like a month until you have even a chance to get a strawberry and probably longer.
You can plant it next to a tomato as long as you don’t plant it too close. Consider how much each plant will grow.
If you bought a small strawberry plant, then don’t expect to get many strawberries in the first year. It takes a year or two until a strawberry plant is large enough to give a decent crop.
Do not plant the two together as they take different conditions and the tomato will crowd/shade out the strawberry. Not to mention, strawberries will be in the ground for 2 to 5 years and the tomato will be dead after the first frost.
You need to take the flower off the strawberry and let the plant grow more if you just planted it. For June bearing types you take the flowers off during the first season and with day neutral types you remove the flowers through the month of June or until you have 3 to 4 crowns. If you don’t do this the plant will be weak and stunted and will never produce many berries in the future, but if you are fine with 1 to 5 berries per year, than let it flower this year. But if you want a decent amount (like 4x that amount per plant) than pick off the flowers now.