Growing Strawberries Garden Tips!
Growing strawberries garden is one interesting and fun organic gardening activity! Most of the strawberry plants are bisexual. It means they will produce berries by itself. However, some are exceptional, such as pistillate flowers without stamens will only produce fruits when they are fertilised with other strawberry flowers. So, the flavour of fruits produced from this strawberry plant may not be the same as those originals. Strawberry plants can be planted with most types of soil. A well drained light soil will be fine. However, their favourite soil is dark rich sandy loam. The soil had been used one season before to grow crops will be the best choice; if you are planning to plant them in a open ground raised bed garden. Growing strawberries is pretty easy. The plants love to be planted on a slope to the south, if possible. They often request for plenty of sunlight and moist. Growing Strawberries Garden and planting strawberry fields!
If you have a small growing space, set rows one foot apart and set your plants one foot apart in the row. Make a two feet wide walkway between every three rows of plants for easy access. If you have a smaller planting area like ours, there won't be any extra rooms for walkway or even proper rows. In this way, you should not expect large strawberries harvest. When you are planting at the South, set in the plants on a cloudy day or when the sun is weak. The best time to set plants in the ground at the North is on a frost free day in the early Spring. When the strawberry plants are setting at the North, should always be mulched to prevent injury caused by the hard freeze. Growing large berries in strawberry fields is possible, if you clip off all the strawberry runners from the parent plant once they appear. Keep the rows wide between each plant will have stronger and vigorous growth. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You will notice that I did not use straws to cover; but the small plastic pots. I found this is more effective; and we could manage our strawberries garden easily. It was because of our storm uncle. He came too often and once he started blowing, all the straws would be gone. If you are planting in the open ground raised bed garden, the best time to plant is between end of summer and before the winter season, when the soil is still cool and moist. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We have too many strawberry plants, so we have to split some to the greenhouse, some outdoors on the shelf and some growing in the raised beds. We have built a new sun house for the next spring growing. We will move all the organic growing strawberries indoor next year. Growing strawberries garden is an amazing project!
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