Monday, May 16, 2011
Growing Backyard Strawberries for Wine
Most people don't think of strawberries as something to grow for wine, but it can be done. My brother in law has a strawberry patch that produced 13 gallons of wine last year, it's pretty crazy. The patch goes down a fence row and is about 200 ft long x 4 ft wide. Last year he made 13 gallons of wine from the strawberry patch shown in the photos. He grows June bearing only, so you just get a single, somewhat monstrous harvest. The wine is good too, very fruity.
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how many gallons per square foot did you harvest last year? Would that not be a fair stat?
ReplyDeleteI need to update this post, the numbers were off. After I read your question,I checked back with my brother-in-law to verify the data, the bed size is half the size mentioned, 100x2 feet and produced 70-80 pounds of fruit, 0.6-0.7 pounds per square foot. So at 4 pounds per fruit, you need about 8 sq feet of growing room for single gallon of wine = equals 5 bottles. Good question.
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