For several years, the Marion County Extension Service has ordered strawberry plugs for local gardeners. Late September or early October is the time to install plants in Florida gardens ...

I remember planting small strawberry plugs into containers as a child and watching them produce succulent red fruits over the school vacation. This process remains just as satisfying today as it ...

For the past several years, the Marion County Extension office has offered home gardeners the opportunity to purchase strawberry starter plugs and we will again make these available for the 2005 ...

It’s definitely another challenge we have to encounter, but in farming, you learn to expect it.” Marvel gets his strawberry plugs from a Virginia nursery that imports them from Canada. He contacted ...

HE SAYS WARMER THAN USUAL WINTERS IN CANADA, WHERE MOST FARMERS IN THIS AREA RECEIVE THEIR STRAWBERRY PLUGS, IS THE BIG ISSUE. TYPICALLY, COLDER TEMPERATURES KILL OFF DISEASES. HE ALSO SAYS ...

Optimum planting dates for each system were determined by transplanting 'Chandler' strawberry plugs at 2-week intervals over 10 weeks. A field planting experiment was added in the second year of ...

Strawberry farmers sow their fields with plug plants, which are little strawberry starter kits of roots, stems and leaves grown in nurseries. To comply with strict regulations requiring soil to be ...

The farm bought roughly 15,200 strawberry tips that were then planted ... After the tips take root in the flats they are called plugs. Most of the students’ morning consisted of pulling the ...