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I’m a blogger for Mainline Gardening, an online gardening community, and today’s post expands on my tips for strawberry garden care posted earlier this week.\u00a0 My own strawberry patch is chock full of flowers now but no berries.\u00a0 I feel like coaxing, “Here, pollinators! Here, pollinators!” like you coax a kitty to the door.\u00a0 Maybe I need the bee equivalent of a can of tuna? I don’t know but I sure hope they show up soon. They were certainly hard at work on the orchard trees and if luck is with us and we don’t get socked with a big drought this year I may actually get enough peaches to write about and a few pears, too.\u00a0 We shall see…..<\/p>\n

Here’s the post for those who would like more strawberry gardening tips:\u00a0 Spring Strawberry Bed Preparation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a blogger for Mainline Gardening, an online gardening community, and today’s post expands on my tips for strawberry garden care posted earlier this week.\u00a0 My own strawberry patch is chock full of flowers now but no berries.\u00a0 I feel like coaxing, “Here, pollinators! Here, pollinators!” like you coax a kitty to the door.\u00a0 Maybe…<\/p>\n

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