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 (picture above).
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.
If you have a big field, you can set rows at least 2.5 foot apart.
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.
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.
Cover the ground around the root with straws, pine needles, wheat and
oats; and weigh them with a little of soil, so that you will have clean
and juicy berries when harvesting.
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.
The backyad black birds would come and steal your fruits; when the fruits had turned red. The birds are not afraid of anything; as they needed to extract the organic salts from your riped berries for their health.
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We have too many strawberry plants, so we have to split some to the
greenhouse, some outdoor on the shelf; and some growing in the raised
beds.
This year we have built a green sun house solely for the coming spring
plants. All the natural growth strawberries will be moving indoor next
year.
Growing strawberries garden can be an amazing task, right?
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