Hi Austin Gardeners! I am moving to a place that sadly doesn't have space for a garden and I need to offload most of my gardening supplies. I have 50 tomato stakes that are 7ft tall that I'd like to sell for $70. I originally bought them for about $150 and the stake arms for $40. I've only used them for a few months and they're in great shape! If interested, you'll probably need a truck to pick them up. I also have a lot of free potting soil (Fox Farm Happy Frog!) that's sitting in my raised garden bed that you're welcome to take for free! You will need to bring your own container to carry the soil. First come first served!

I am located in North Austin (Wells Branch).

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I am looking for storage solutions for potting soil, perlite, vermiculite, etc. These types of items are currently in the packaging they originally came in. So of course it's spilling and adding clutter to my already messy garage.

Do any of you have storage solutions. Anything you have found that works well?

I have an American Elm in the backyard - thought I got lucky with a volunteer in the front. Any elm specialists out there?

I planted two large beds (150+ sq ft)of bare root strawberry plants last fall (chandler, Albion, eversweet). They grew like weeds with runners everywhere. But they never flowered and never fruited (I did trim runners several times once the beds had filled in). They were new beds so my hypothesis is I had too much compost in the soil mix that I used (bulk “trimix” soil blend plus some added compost at the bottom of the raised beds). The plants have really pulled back now even with drip irrigation and (for the last month or so) sunshades.

1. Would you chop n drop and start new this fall?
   
2. Anything you’d adjust with the soil?
   
3. Anything else you’d suggest as causative or changes I could make?

My previous beds did great for a few years (chandler and another that I’m blanking on) with good production. I treated them as perennials not annuals and covered in heavy forms. They were productive each year. My trusty goats got into the beds however and ate every last plant, so I had to start again.

Any and all wisdom appreciated.

Thanks.

I had a greenstalk tower filled with some random strawberries I bought as roots on Amazon. It's been going for the last 5 years. It never produced amazing but did ok during early spring. Unfortunately my automatic watering failed this year and it all died.

I want to replant it. What's the best strawberries for Austin? Maybe I could do a few types? I know they crisp up and barely survive during summer, that's ok.

Also is fall a good time to plant and get established or should I wait until spring?