Growing Strawberries Tips for Beginners!
Growing Strawberries Tips for all small greenhouse growing, container gardening, balcony gardening, indoor raised bed gardening, small space gardening; and window boxes gardening. I have been growing strawberry plants for the past 6 years. Every year in the winter season, I would help my best friend to grow baby strawberry runners in our green house. Because she is always busy at work and no time to care for her young strawberry plants until the following Spring. Last spring she brought me two packets of strawberry seeds as a token. She bought those seeds from London when she was on holiday. When I received the seeds, I could not wait to grow them. It was a real challenge when you heard most of the people said to you that, strawberries are grown from runners and not from seeds. Growing strawberries indoors from seeds is pretty simple. You can spread all the seeds on a layer of one inch wet potting soil, in a portable mini greenhouse hot bed; and cover with another layer of dried soil; then sprinkle clean water on top; then put on a transparent cover.
Surprisingly, they came out 100%; and out of a sudden I was busy with more than sixty young strawberry plants. The problem is, I had not enough pots and space for all the babies. The young strawberry plants are really very mini; so it is necessary to handle them carefully with the light bamboo tooth-picks. As usual, you can transfer the tender plants to their individual containers; when they are stronger and taller. At last I found some old re-usable plastic bottles to be the emergency green houses for their winter sleep. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Spring, when the frost is over, choose a sunny day to week your strawberry plants. Remove all the dead leaves and dead roots from the plants; and shorten the roots by 1/3 of their length before transplant. This pruning will encourage a new growth of fibres. Prepare a good drainage pot, place some potting soil with fine sand mix. Wet the soil with Chlorine free natural mineral water and set in the plant. Cover all the roots with the dry ground and add in your earth worms; then sprinkle rain water over the top soil near the roots. Place this at a sunny place; or in a fresh-air circulated greenhouse. We don't need a big garden to plant a strawberry pot! Either you are using strawberry planters; or herb planters; or plastic containers; or baskets or earth pots, there will not have much difference. The most important is your plants must have good drainage growing pots, rich sandy soil, clean water and fresh air. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Any time of the year can be the best time for growing strawberry plants in pots. Transplanting will be allowed only when the sun is away. When the plant is fruiting, use short bamboo sticks to support the fruit vines so that the fruits will not be too close to each other. If the sun is too strong for the plants, change their positions. Harvest strawberries when they are red and glossy. The best time to harvest should be around 10 am. Build your pesticides free excellent DIY strawberries garden from today!
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