I bought a strawberry plant that was dying. Cost me 50p I planted it in a pot to see what would happen. Iv had the plant about 5 years now and each year it has given me lots of yummy strawberries
I heard of a grandma who painted some small stones bright red. She placed the stones among her berry plants well before they fruited. The birds learned that the bright red "fruits" were not worth the trouble and never bothered the real strawberries once they arrived. Maybe this idea will keep our birds at the feeders and off the berries!
I had birds eating every strawberry before they could even ripen but I didn't want to bother with the hassle of netting. So I tucked my strawberry container amongst my aromatic herb containers. (Dill, basil, oregano, cilantro, chives, and mint) Seems to have properly confused my feathered thieves because I haven't had a single strawberry nibbled on in a over a month.
you can also paint some rocks red and place them near your strawberry plants earlier in the season. birds will learn that strawberries are hard and inedible and then have no interest in the actual berries when they appear.
I've had mixed success on keeping sources of water around so birds don't use fruits to literally wet their beaks. It makes a lot of sense that when it is dry, they will take a single bite just to get some moisture
In an attempt to prioritize time, as well as letting nature do it's thing, I mow my yard less often. Doing so presented a large area of ground cover berries, which kept my two-year-old granddaughter very busy. By the end of her daily interest in harvesting and eating ripened berries, her hands, arms, hair, and smiling face were strawberry red. Who would imagine doing less work would produce such joy. Good stuff, and thank you!
I had alpine strawberries growing in deep shade under trees and what a treat! They came back every year and not only did they attract the birds but the birds took care of any insects in the garden too!
Great feature on strawberries! We inherited a lot of old plants, which weren’t very productive, and we only got a solitary bowl out of them last year. I got some tiny plant pots, put in some compost, and just tucked in a runner into each one. Once the runners had rooted in the pots I cut off the plant umbilical cord and replanted the baby plants into the original bed, now cleared of the old plants. I then spread Strulch over the bed. We ended up with 50 new plants for free this way. We have had a very productive season this time with something like 10kg of strawberries resulting in 14 jars of jam and a lot of desserts. I’m planning to repeat this propagation process every three years so my plants are always quite young. Top tip: If you have a bread machine, see if it has a jam setting as it can save a lot of burnt pans. You might need to run the setting 2 or even 3 times to get the perfect consistency, maybe adding a little pectin, but if you’re busy, this is a real boon.
Great tip - and well done on propagating so many new plants from runners. This is my mission for this summer - bulk out my strawberries and create a dedicated strawberry bed.
Also I may have mentioned this before, but one of the perks of working in a university for me is that I get access to all the plant science research papers I have time to read, even though I am not a plant scientist! There was a very good study into how to increase strawberry yield and it found planting borage near the strawberries helped pollination a lot, leading to better cropping. What the plant scientists neglected to add is that this is also handy for making the subsequent Pimms ;.)
This is absolutely the best video for growing strawberries, I have found, much good information here. ❤ Thank you for posting it. I just started planting strawberries a few weeks ago in containers and really enjoying it so far. North Carolina girl..
Oh my memories. The alpine strawberries used to be grow all over these Mtns when I was a child. We called them wild berries. Daddy would find us a big patch, and we all went, 5 of us, to pick for the winter’s jam. 1 gallon containers. As the youngest I remember having a measuring cup having to pick it full. We all had to fill our containers to Mother’s satisfaction. Being reminded that the jam will taste better on our biscuits (scones to you )than a snowball, lol. These days you hardly ever see them, and if you do they are very tiny. But I grow my own “tame” ones. Thanks for the advice
Such a helpful video, thank you! I always appreciate that you use seasons for reference rather than specific months for those of us in a different hemisphere. 🙂🇦🇺
I have wild strawberries growing on mountain scree in Mid Wales. They have spread into the cracks of my terrace providing more fruit for free. This year I'm harvesting 600g of fruit every two days.
I have grown strawberries for a few years, and I have still learned some great tips from your video Ben. Thanks for making and sharing and your strawberry harvest is making my mouth water. Yum!
Hello All, We are in Australia where the summers are very hot, even in Melbourne, for a long time I have been lining my terracotta pots with bark from a paper bark tree, but I think you could use a thin flexible bark from any tree. The bark slowly breaks down over years, but in the meantime insulates the roots and slows water evaporation and stops the root ball in the pot from drying out. When you want to re-pot, removing the roots from the pot is easier as the bark helps the root mass and soil just slide out. It is organic and cheap, I just pull some of the excess bark off the tree, and the paper bark tree is generous and gives me plenty without being harmed in any way. Cheers, Bron
If you're in Australia or a hotter, drier climate remember to keep up the watering! Also if you're considering using netting on any fruit trees or vertical growing areas, make sure to use small aperture netting, small enough that you can't stick a finger through it as the larger stuff is deadly to fruit bats.
@bina nocht Yes they are! However they can get their limbs tangled up in the large aperture netting trying to climb it and it cuts off the blood supply to their limbs rapidly, particularly if it constricts their wing membrane. Also they have very high hydration needs so when they get tangled and can't escape they often die rapidly of kidney failure. The outcomes for fruit bats that have been rescued off netting is pretty bad which is why the small aperture netting is a great alternative as they have a much harder time getting tangled in it.
Hi Ben. This is my first year gardening and I am loving your channel love❤ I saved some strawberry plants from the b&q clearance aisle and put them in containers and they have already given me some fruit. Happy days x
Thank you for the tip about the homemade strawberry tower. I will do it this summer. I have strawberries called corona😄they fruit once during the summer and are super sweet. I also have wild strawberries. I have planted strawberries around bushes and trees in large potting.
Just planted some this weekend using a felt strawberry bag! Can't wait for the fruits! Also keen to learn how to preserve the plant for next year. Looking forward to the next video :)
It depends on the variety, but I know I've seen strawberry plants that survived -40 temperatures. If in doubt, mulch them with dried grasses or shredded paper. You could put cardboard "toppers" over to help insulate.
3gen farmer from Iceland with disability that had to move to the capital city. I find you're videos informative and insightful a long time ago my farm had plant research by my grade grand parents, then animals by grandmothers older brother and now we have still have animals by my mothers disabled little brother.
I have new raised beds where I've planted Quinalt and Ozark Beauty strawberries. Next summer I hope to put some in my Greenstalk planter on the patio. Thanks for the tips. USA
thank you so much, very good explanation "on how to grow strawberiies on the pot", i will try that I wish to find good one that stays longer..thank you and see you..for my feed back after i do grow my own.❤
This is my first year planting strawberries plants. Just learned from you my Sweet Ann variety are day neutral. Excited to see the fruit next year. Saludos!- Los Angeles
Hi Ben,we have had our allotment for 15 years ish & we can tell you the best strawberries we have found are Marshalls Marshmellow ,sweet juicy and quite large fruit,we have set runners and our fellow plot holders who also agree,next year we will try potting some for an early crop,they also make great jam,the first fruit are usually 2nd week in June,we still have a few on now but soon we will collect new plants for a new bed next year although 2 year plants are stronger,you can’t rush gardening it takes time,good luck & happy gardening.
Wonderful. I have tried growing blueberries 2 times. Once in ground (they drowned in winter). Then I planted in wine barrels. Used proper mix of plant medium, but they died. So I went to a workshop at my local nursery. They said never plant in containers that they like to grow 6 feet tall and spread. But your video gives me renewed hope.
hello..I started Ozark strawberries last year in Hay rack baskets. The baskets were suspended horizontally between metal arbors . this added extra growing room in my small garden to grow beans up the arbors at the same time. There was a fence about 3 feet from the structure which blocked the morning sun, so i painted it white, which should help reflect the noon and midday sun light . hopefully this will give what need light is required to develop delicious Strawberries. Thank you for all your helpful garden tips and planting suggestions.
That sounds like an ingenious setup you have there Gale. Certainly painting the fence white may help a little to improve overall light levels. I hope you get a good crop this summer. :-)
Thank you, Ben. I’m planning to plant up strawberries in hanging pots in our polytunnel. This is partly to try to deter our Blackbird strawberry thieves. And partly because, even with a straw-based mulch we have issues with mould on our fruit. So your video has been really useful. It confirms that I am doing basic things right, but has also given me tips for ensuring the plants grow healthy and strong. I’m using Marshmello for the pots, following the advice of a local polytunneler. Here goes!
I grow day neutrals, exclusively, here in Southern California. I have Albion, Eversweet, and my favorite - Sweet Ann. They slow for only about 2 months during the coldest part of the year, then they get right back to it. Nice video :)
Wow, south California? I thought they can't grow in the south, only around half moon bay at the most (Pacifica has great hill with wild ones, people pick full jars 😁). How do you plant them, from seed, or bring larger plants from northern region?
Thank you so much for your strawberry video ! 🍓 I look forward to part two later on this Summer! I’m needing to learn what to do with the runners , so this will be very helpful !
I have a hanging upside down garden in my chook coop. Strawberries are prefect for it! The berries hang down, no dirt for them to sit and rot on, and easy to pick. I have some herbs growing in the top too. Considering trying chives in the top to deter bugs
Thank you for the lesson on growing strawberries. Live on Hatteras Island (North Carolina - USA) and have never grown them. Want to give it a try this season. Appreciate your expertise.
I have all ever bearing berries...I think the variety is one of the most popular. I grow in containers now but am thinking of devoting a section of my raised beds this year. Still learning about berries but loving the harvest so far.
Really appreciate this! I have quite a long balcony that gets lots of sun from May onwards and I've been wanting to grow strawberries for ever. This has given lots of great advice and I'm excited to get planting once I can find the plants in my local garden shop.
I've been growing strawberries for years. I grow the variety that gives fruit over a matter of weeks. We made jam for the 1st time last year and it was delicious!
This is a great video and very informative.I am in phoenix Az I grow Gurney Whopper and Ozark Beauty it took me years to learn how to grow strawberries here but now I am trying new kinds next season
Several years ago I planted up a metre square raised bed with some strawberry plants. I knew nothing about growing fruit but I had beginner’s luck because I had bowlfuls and bowlfuls of strawberries that summer. Years later and I’m going to do it all again. The raised bed is in, the compost and soil are in, the barefoot strawberries arrived in the post and are now in! Hopefully, after settling in over this coming winter, they will give me lots of berries next summer and autumn 🥰
I remember picking wild strawberries from the hedgerow while hitching through Devon. I also had wild strawberry jam made from fruit picked in the forests of northern Poland. Although the fruits are small, the taste is simply incredible! 100% more sweet, delicious, and strawberryish than anything I've ever had from a shop. I didn't know they were called Alpines but that's definitely the variety I'll be looking out for.
Wild strawberries are so much better than "supermarket" strawberry, it's just so different taste, the big ones never have the forest aroma of wild strawberries. In other languages the "big" type is different name than small, for example "Klubnika" vs "Zemlyanika" (big vs small), but in English the big strawberry and the small forest one, have same name, that's why many people don't even know there's one more berry type that looks similar but tastes 80% different than "classic supermarket strawberry" 😅
Excellent idea you mentioned in this video ♥️🥰 make a tower so it won’t dry quickly cuz I have those strawberries pot and they don’t live longer so I will make them top on another pot so it won’t dry during summer 👩🌾🥰👍👍 thank you again!
Lovely ideas and great tips as always! We had a volunteer strawberry and have merit out going on the greenhouse a couple of years now. I also decided to try some white alpine strawberries and they are tiny but have a delicate sweet flavor
I don't know the strawberry varieties, but my partner gave me a pack of six plants for Easter to give our kiddos in their Easter baskets, and they all decided they wanted them on the fence! I bought 2 felt bags with six rows of pockets and used UV zip ties to secure them. It's a beautiful back drop! The strawberries have produced beautifully.
@@GrowVeg I missed giving them some fertilization so I appreciate the reminder. Thank you for your wonderful videos! I used a sandy mix to plant them and covered the top with coco coir to hold in moisture.
Thanks for the tips in the video! I will be trying to grow strawberries in Florida this fall/winter (summer is too hot for them here, and the plants are usually treated as annuals.). With any luck, we'll have some beautiful berries for the holiday season!
I love your gardening channel and always get some new ideas. I shall try celery (again). Here in Northern Germany we have very similar climate to GB. WE had a lot of rain this year and I wonder if my tomatoes will do anything but for celery it could be good. I love chard but prefer the white chard with the wide spines. An easy and tasty crop that lasts will the first frosts. Nasturtium is a grreat plant: very hot or very rainy - it covers any area beautifully and always looks great. The seed pods are really spicy! Thank you for your great videos!
I read somewhere that having red-painted pebbles spread around the strawberry plants will deter birds since they will peck at the stones and find them inedible. Put the pebbles around a little time before the berries ripen to get the best effect.
I also heard the same thing. I collected flat rocks from the ocean and I’ll be painting them reddish pink to resemble strawberries. Hopefully it will work.
I have been growing strawberries for years and grow all the varieties. This growing season I have purchased two Green Stalks growing towers to fill up with strawberries, I am excited to get started but I live in Western Montana with my last frost date in mid-May however strawberries plants don't mind some frost, but snow would not be good for them. Thanks for sharing your beautiful berries with us.
Some great advice! We had good success with Gariguette strawberry plants a few years back. Then mice started to come into the netted strawberry bed under a neighbour’s fence eating every scrap of fruit long before they were ripe. Attempts to stop this were unsuccessful and so I gave up, donating the plants to a colleague with a larger garden. Last year I decided to try again with different plants in containers; I bought Mount Everest plants, sold as ever bearing with long runners that would provide the additional plants that could be positioned above the originals. We had what I thought was a good site but while the plants produced plenty of flowers at the start of this year they all withered away to nothing. Runners are now growing but nothing like the 1m lengths advertised. I will look after the plants as best I can and let them have another year to produce some fruit. Meanwhile, I found 1 Gariguette plant hidden under other things at the back of the old bed. I dug this up a few weeks ago and transferred it to a pot where it has gone from strength to strength. Plenty of strong runners bearing baby plants that root easily. I’m hoping for perhaps 20 small plants by the end of summer that I will grow on, protected from mice, in our “catio”. Having failed to find much success with strawberry towers in the past (great for a year but the plants below the top layer didn’t thrive) I plan to grow the individual plants in good sized pots hanging from the wire walls of the catio. Fingers crossed for Gariguette strawberries next year! They really are tasty strawberries and worth growing despite a short fruiting season. Happy to receive any advice on succeeding with either variety. 💐
@@GrowVeg Doing well to date, so far we have parent plant and 4 rooted babies plus runners growing from each. Researching containers that will be comfortable for the plants next year, suspended from the wire panel walls of the catio. So far found options with no drainage or way to add a drip tray. Any suggestions will be welcomed. 😁
Your Strawberries look Beautiful. 🍓 I'm not growing any this Year, but have done an upside down, screwed together, 2 litre bottle set up with them before, it's screwed to the wall. It works very similar to the Towers, by just watering the top ones. Hope that made sense. TFS GV, & take care everyone. ❤🙂🐶
Howdy Ben!👋 I plan on adding strawberries to our garden next year. Someone suggested the Alpine ones. After your tutorial I might do two kinds...the Alpine for garden snacking and the June bearing ones for jam.😀 Thanks for the knowledge!💕
Thank you . I do have the ground cover strawberries, the small ones which I have never eaten. I am going to do a tower as I have containers plus some strawberry plants. Thank you for an informative video. As always very helpful
I'm thinking, in the next year or two, about growing some strawberries in a vertical pallet planter to try it out on my small deck. I'll probably try ever bearing and June bearing together.
Great information! Thank you! I've started some strawberries in pots this year and they are doing great. Even now this late in the year I am getting a few berries. One question; Should I leave them outside over winter? I am in zone 6a which gets temps as low as -10. Or, rarely, a few degrees colder.
Yes, they should be fine outside. If you are growing them in pots though, perhaps move the pots to somewhere a little sheltered. They're fine to get frozen, just not all the time.
You have persuaded me to try out a perpetual variety - I'm thinking Flamenco. Also, the Cambridge variety that I have in normal beds, always start well, but then end up rotting, so I will try using some form of raised planter.
I'm growing strawberries as well and I've got a hand full from two of my plants I'm also growing peas,cucumbers,carrots,brokoli,lettuce, tomato's, radishes and sunflowers. There all growing very well :). Also your videos have helped me sooooo much and I just wanted to say thank you.
I have not tried the alpine strawberries. I grow both June bearing and everbearing. I have to grow them with partial shade, as the sun burns up the leaves here in North Texas. Thanks for the tips. I struggle growing them and am always appreciative for all the tips to try to get a better growing crop and harvest.
I bought a strawberry plant that was dying. Cost me 50p I planted it in a pot to see what would happen. Iv had the plant about 5 years now and each year it has given me lots of yummy strawberries
That's wonderful to hear!
@@GrowVegwould love a video of Pineberry's White strawberrys
I heard of a grandma who painted some small stones bright red. She placed the stones among her berry plants well before they fruited. The birds learned that the bright red "fruits" were not worth the trouble and never bothered the real strawberries once they arrived. Maybe this idea will keep our birds at the feeders and off the berries!
I've heard of this and would love to try it - seems like a great idea!
I'm definitely going to try this, as I already have my paints out!
I put my strawberry plant in a LG ferret cage because of the birds
That’s a good idea
We tried it, it worked
I had birds eating every strawberry before they could even ripen but I didn't want to bother with the hassle of netting. So I tucked my strawberry container amongst my aromatic herb containers. (Dill, basil, oregano, cilantro, chives, and mint) Seems to have properly confused my feathered thieves because I haven't had a single strawberry nibbled on in a over a month.
Yeah thise little buggers do that. worst thing is they take 1 bite and move on to the next...
Smart work camouflaging them - great idea. :-)
you can also paint some rocks red and place them near your strawberry plants earlier in the season. birds will learn that strawberries are hard and inedible and then have no interest in the actual berries when they appear.
Good tip!!!
I've had mixed success on keeping sources of water around so birds don't use fruits to literally wet their beaks. It makes a lot of sense that when it is dry, they will take a single bite just to get some moisture
I put a coffee filter over the drain hole to keep soil in the pot..works for me...I can't wait for spring 🙂
Great idea Shirley! :-)
In an attempt to prioritize time, as well as letting nature do it's thing, I mow my yard less often. Doing so presented a large area of ground cover berries, which kept my two-year-old granddaughter very busy. By the end of her daily interest in harvesting and eating ripened berries, her hands, arms, hair, and smiling face were strawberry red. Who would imagine doing less work would produce such joy.
Good stuff, and thank you!
What a lovely vision! :-)
Yes Ben , you’re right , “the best things in life aren’t complicated” Cheers !
I had alpine strawberries growing in deep shade under trees and what a treat! They came back every year and not only did they attract the birds but the birds took care of any insects in the garden too!
What a fantastic win-win scenario Sherri! :-)
Pine needles also make a great mulch for strawberries. They seem to really like it.
Thank you!!! I have lots of those in my backyard...
Great feature on strawberries! We inherited a lot of old plants, which weren’t very productive, and we only got a solitary bowl out of them last year. I got some tiny plant pots, put in some compost, and just tucked in a runner into each one. Once the runners had rooted in the pots I cut off the plant umbilical cord and replanted the baby plants into the original bed, now cleared of the old plants. I then spread Strulch over the bed. We ended up with 50 new plants for free this way. We have had a very productive season this time with something like 10kg of strawberries resulting in 14 jars of jam and a lot of desserts. I’m planning to repeat this propagation process every three years so my plants are always quite young. Top tip: If you have a bread machine, see if it has a jam setting as it can save a lot of burnt pans. You might need to run the setting 2 or even 3 times to get the perfect consistency, maybe adding a little pectin, but if you’re busy, this is a real boon.
Great tip - and well done on propagating so many new plants from runners. This is my mission for this summer - bulk out my strawberries and create a dedicated strawberry bed.
Also I may have mentioned this before, but one of the perks of working in a university for me is that I get access to all the plant science research papers I have time to read, even though I am not a plant scientist! There was a very good study into how to increase strawberry yield and it found planting borage near the strawberries helped pollination a lot, leading to better cropping. What the plant scientists neglected to add is that this is also handy for making the subsequent Pimms ;.)
Haha - maybe the thought had crossed their minds though. The perfect duo in the perfect Pimms! :)
What is Pimm?
@@CC-lv1ox Pimms is a cocktail drink and borage is a good option for a garnish.
This is absolutely the best video for growing strawberries, I have found, much good information here. ❤ Thank you for posting it. I just started planting strawberries a few weeks ago in containers and really enjoying it so far. North Carolina girl..
So pleased you’re enjoying the process. Hope you get a super harvest. 😀
Oh my memories. The alpine strawberries used to be grow all over these Mtns when I was a child. We called them wild berries. Daddy would find us a big patch, and we all went, 5 of us, to pick for the winter’s jam. 1 gallon containers. As the youngest I remember having a measuring cup having to pick it full. We all had to fill our containers to Mother’s satisfaction. Being reminded that the jam will taste better on our biscuits (scones to you )than a snowball, lol. These days you hardly ever see them, and if you do they are very tiny. But I grow my own “tame” ones.
Thanks for the advice
That's a wonderful memory to have Tonie. I bet that jam was totally unrivalled.
Which region it is and how many years ago? Maybe the warming affects how much of them grow now?
Such a helpful video, thank you! I always appreciate that you use seasons for reference rather than specific months for those of us in a different hemisphere. 🙂🇦🇺
That's why we do it! :-)
I'm starting my first garden this year. I'm trying to learn so much, thank you.
How is it going?
I have wild strawberries growing on mountain scree in Mid Wales. They have spread into the cracks of my terrace providing more fruit for free. This year I'm harvesting 600g of fruit every two days.
Oh wow - that's an incredible result from wild strawberries - how lucky and delicious. :-)
Ha, I just planted 50 strawberry plants in some meters of gutters, fixed on the fence of my kitchen garden! It makes me so happy!!
Great job! :-)
I have grown strawberries for a few years, and I have still learned some great tips from your video Ben. Thanks for making and sharing and your strawberry harvest is making my mouth water. Yum!
You're very welcome Dawn - thanks so much for watching.
Hello All, We are in Australia where the summers are very hot, even in Melbourne, for a long time I have been lining my terracotta pots with bark from a paper bark tree, but I think you could use a thin flexible bark from any tree. The bark slowly breaks down over years, but in the meantime insulates the roots and slows water evaporation and stops the root ball in the pot from drying out. When you want to re-pot, removing the roots from the pot is easier as the bark helps the root mass and soil just slide out. It is organic and cheap, I just pull some of the excess bark off the tree, and the paper bark tree is generous and gives me plenty without being harmed in any way. Cheers, Bron
What a great idea Bronwyn, thanks for sharing. :-)
My newborn daughter will thank you as we just planted a few strawberries in the garden. Love from California.
That's fantastic - great job. How lovely to have a newborn daughter - many congratulations! :-)
If you're in Australia or a hotter, drier climate remember to keep up the watering! Also if you're considering using netting on any fruit trees or vertical growing areas, make sure to use small aperture netting, small enough that you can't stick a finger through it as the larger stuff is deadly to fruit bats.
Great advice, thanks for sharing. :-)
@bina nocht Yes they are! However they can get their limbs tangled up in the large aperture netting trying to climb it and it cuts off the blood supply to their limbs rapidly, particularly if it constricts their wing membrane. Also they have very high hydration needs so when they get tangled and can't escape they often die rapidly of kidney failure. The outcomes for fruit bats that have been rescued off netting is pretty bad which is why the small aperture netting is a great alternative as they have a much harder time getting tangled in it.
Hi Ben. This is my first year gardening and I am loving your channel love❤ I saved some strawberry plants from the b&q clearance aisle and put them in containers and they have already given me some fruit. Happy days x
Happy days indeed Linda! Thanks for watching :-)
I absolutely adore your videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
--gardener in Minnesota, USA
And thank you for watching - really appreciate your support. :-)
Have a lifetime supply of various pots. Thanks for the idea of a homemade tower!
Thanks for mentioning mulch or straw. I will do that now.
Thank you for the tip about the homemade strawberry tower. I will do it this summer. I have strawberries called corona😄they fruit once during the summer and are super sweet. I also have wild strawberries. I have planted strawberries around bushes and trees in large potting.
I sure wish I had watched this back in July. LOL Super info and I will use it from now on.
Brilliant as always. I've not grown strawberries for years, I'm going to try this year ....
Thank you for your tip on how to plant in a pot
Just planted some this weekend using a felt strawberry bag! Can't wait for the fruits! Also keen to learn how to preserve the plant for next year. Looking forward to the next video :)
Can we over winter the container strawberries? Wisconsin...but I do have an unheated shed?
It depends on the variety, but I know I've seen strawberry plants that survived -40 temperatures. If in doubt, mulch them with dried grasses or shredded paper. You could put cardboard "toppers" over to help insulate.
You are AMAZING! I can see why you are a Master Gardener.
3gen farmer from Iceland with disability that had to move to the capital city. I find you're videos informative and insightful a long time ago my farm had plant research by my grade grand parents, then animals by grandmothers older brother and now we have still have animals by my mothers disabled little brother.
Thanks for your kind comment. Your farm sounds like it was wonderful. :-)
I have new raised beds where I've planted Quinalt and Ozark Beauty strawberries. Next summer I hope to put some in my Greenstalk planter on the patio. Thanks for the tips. USA
Thank you. I'm looking forward to the season!
I’m so glad I watched this video before trying to plant strawberries I didn’t know they needed straw or hay
They don't really need the straw or hay - it just helps to keep the berries cleaner.
Thanks very much for sharing this video. I've started growing strawberry plants in my balcony (in Bangalore, India). Your tips help a lot.
That's really great to hear Shanmugam. :-)
thank you so much, very good explanation "on how to grow strawberiies on the pot", i will try that I wish to find good one that stays longer..thank you and see you..for my feed back after i do grow my own.❤
This is my first year planting strawberries plants. Just learned from you my Sweet Ann variety are day neutral. Excited to see the fruit next year. Saludos!- Los Angeles
Very comprehensive video. Thanks so much for your thoughtful content
Hi Ben,we have had our allotment for 15 years ish & we can tell you the best strawberries we have found are Marshalls Marshmellow ,sweet juicy and quite large fruit,we have set runners and our fellow plot holders who also agree,next year we will try potting some for an early crop,they also make great jam,the first fruit are usually 2nd week in June,we still have a few on now but soon we will collect new plants for a new bed next year although 2 year plants are stronger,you can’t rush gardening it takes time,good luck & happy gardening.
I've tried Marshmallow in the past and it is definitely delicious - good choice. :-)
Wonderful. I have tried growing blueberries 2 times. Once in ground (they drowned in winter). Then I planted in wine barrels. Used proper mix of plant medium, but they died. So I went to a workshop at my local nursery. They said never plant in containers that they like to grow 6 feet tall and spread. But your video gives me renewed hope.
Hope you manage to get them to grow next time round Marge.
Blueberry ‘Top Hat’
This is just the video that i needed and came at the perfect time! Thanks Ben! :)
Great stuff Jackie, thanks for watching. :-)
Great job on this beautiful video of strawberry 🍓
Thanks!
hello..I started Ozark strawberries last year in Hay rack baskets. The baskets were suspended horizontally between metal arbors . this added extra growing room in my small garden to grow beans up the arbors at the same time. There was a fence about 3 feet from the structure which blocked the morning sun, so i painted it white, which should help reflect the noon and midday sun light . hopefully this will give what need light is required to develop delicious Strawberries. Thank you for all your helpful garden tips and planting suggestions.
That sounds like an ingenious setup you have there Gale. Certainly painting the fence white may help a little to improve overall light levels. I hope you get a good crop this summer. :-)
Epic stuff, black pepper with strawberries..amazing
Everbearing and June berries. All my Gardening are in raised beads. This video helped !
Thank you, Ben. I’m planning to plant up strawberries in hanging pots in our polytunnel. This is partly to try to deter our Blackbird strawberry thieves. And partly because, even with a straw-based mulch we have issues with mould on our fruit. So your video has been really useful. It confirms that I am doing basic things right, but has also given me tips for ensuring the plants grow healthy and strong. I’m using Marshmello for the pots, following the advice of a local polytunneler. Here goes!
Great stuff Sarah. I've heard only great things about Marshmello, so I think you've chosen well there.
what is marshmello?
Berry good sir! And thanks for the alternative thoughts for veganic gardeners 👍
Nice one Gawain! 🙌😀
strawberries are my very favorite
Useful tips to try. Thank you.
I grow day neutrals, exclusively, here in Southern California.
I have Albion, Eversweet, and my favorite - Sweet Ann.
They slow for only about 2 months during the coldest part of the year, then they get right back to it.
Nice video :)
A lovely mix of varieties. :-)
Wow, south California? I thought they can't grow in the south, only around half moon bay at the most (Pacifica has great hill with wild ones, people pick full jars 😁). How do you plant them, from seed, or bring larger plants from northern region?
Fabulous thank you
Very informative thank you!!!
Strawberries and pumpkins are the most fun things to grow with kids!
Absolutely!
Thank you so much for your strawberry video ! 🍓 I look forward to part two later on this Summer! I’m needing to learn what to do with the runners , so this will be very helpful !
I have a hanging upside down garden in my chook coop. Strawberries are prefect for it! The berries hang down, no dirt for them to sit and rot on, and easy to pick. I have some herbs growing in the top too. Considering trying chives in the top to deter bugs
Thank you for the lesson on growing strawberries. Live on Hatteras Island (North Carolina - USA) and have never grown them. Want to give it a try this season. Appreciate your expertise.
Hope they grow well for you. You live in a very interesting place - would love to visit the Outer Banks some day. :-)
A lot of good information. Thank you.
I'm planting some bare root strawberry and raspberry plants tomorrow. Very informative video. Thanks! 👍
Great to be getting some new fruits in. Hope they grow away well for you. :-)
I’ve had strawberries do well in hanging baskets too.
Thanks so much, your videos are so great for beginners and the tips such as if you're not able to water whilst away etc are brilliant thinking
Thanks for those kind words Andy, it's appreciated.
I have all ever bearing berries...I think the variety is one of the most popular. I grow in containers now but am thinking of devoting a section of my raised beds this year. Still learning about berries but loving the harvest so far.
Definitely worth devoting some of your raised beds area if you can. :-)
Thanks for the info, I am planning on planting strawberries this spring.
You just inspire me to grow strawberries, good info & tips thank you
Really appreciate this! I have quite a long balcony that gets lots of sun from May onwards and I've been wanting to grow strawberries for ever. This has given lots of great advice and I'm excited to get planting once I can find the plants in my local garden shop.
I've been growing strawberries for years. I grow the variety that gives fruit over a matter of weeks. We made jam for the 1st time last year and it was delicious!
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This is a great video and very informative.I am in phoenix Az I grow Gurney Whopper and Ozark Beauty it took me years to learn how to grow strawberries here but now I am trying new kinds next season
Several years ago I planted up a metre square raised bed with some strawberry plants. I knew nothing about growing fruit but I had beginner’s luck because I had bowlfuls and bowlfuls of strawberries that summer. Years later and I’m going to do it all again. The raised bed is in, the compost and soil are in, the barefoot strawberries arrived in the post and are now in! Hopefully, after settling in over this coming winter, they will give me lots of berries next summer and autumn 🥰
I hope your new strawberry bed settles in beautifully and you get another bumper crop of berries next season. :-)
I remember picking wild strawberries from the hedgerow while hitching through Devon. I also had wild strawberry jam made from fruit picked in the forests of northern Poland. Although the fruits are small, the taste is simply incredible! 100% more sweet, delicious, and strawberryish than anything I've ever had from a shop. I didn't know they were called Alpines but that's definitely the variety I'll be looking out for.
What happy memories Dave. :-)
Wild strawberries are so much better than "supermarket" strawberry, it's just so different taste, the big ones never have the forest aroma of wild strawberries. In other languages the "big" type is different name than small, for example "Klubnika" vs "Zemlyanika" (big vs small), but in English the big strawberry and the small forest one, have same name, that's why many people don't even know there's one more berry type that looks similar but tastes 80% different than "classic supermarket strawberry" 😅
Oh I adore you and your tips and I'm glad I stumbled across this video, I've now subscribed 😊 ❤ thank you.
Wonderful - thanks so much for subscribing - and a very warm welcome to the channel! :-)
I like the Albion strawberry. Sweet & delicious.
Fantastic informative video, thank you
Excellent idea you mentioned in this video ♥️🥰 make a tower so it won’t dry quickly cuz I have those strawberries pot and they don’t live longer so I will make them top on another pot so it won’t dry during summer 👩🌾🥰👍👍 thank you again!
I have wild strawberries everywhere my grandson loves them
Thanks for some great, simple tips.
Lovely ideas and great tips as always! We had a volunteer strawberry and have merit out going on the greenhouse a couple of years now. I also decided to try some white alpine strawberries and they are tiny but have a delicate sweet flavor
I bet those white alpine strawberries are totally delicious. :-)
I like Fort Laramie plants ❤
I've got Montana strawberry coming soon so figuring out what planter to put in. Will plant more soon...but thisnis a first go.
Thank you
I don't know the strawberry varieties, but my partner gave me a pack of six plants for Easter to give our kiddos in their Easter baskets, and they all decided they wanted them on the fence! I bought 2 felt bags with six rows of pockets and used UV zip ties to secure them. It's a beautiful back drop! The strawberries have produced beautifully.
That's wonderful to hear - you've clearly looked after them perfectly. :-)
@@GrowVeg I missed giving them some fertilization so I appreciate the reminder. Thank you for your wonderful videos! I used a sandy mix to plant them and covered the top with coco coir to hold in moisture.
Thanks for the tips in the video! I will be trying to grow strawberries in Florida this fall/winter (summer is too hot for them here, and the plants are usually treated as annuals.). With any luck, we'll have some beautiful berries for the holiday season!
Hope you get a superb crop in time. :-)
I love your gardening channel and always get some new ideas. I shall try celery (again). Here in Northern Germany we have very similar climate to GB. WE had a lot of rain this year and I wonder if my tomatoes will do anything but for celery it could be good. I love chard but prefer the white chard with the wide spines. An easy and tasty crop that lasts will the first frosts. Nasturtium is a grreat plant: very hot or very rainy - it covers any area beautifully and always looks great. The seed pods are really spicy! Thank you for your great videos!
I've never tried pepper on a fresh berry. Going to give it a go soon my first berry is almost ready to pick. 😊
I read somewhere that having red-painted pebbles spread around the strawberry plants will deter birds since they will peck at the stones and find them inedible. Put the pebbles around a little time before the berries ripen to get the best effect.
What a great idea!
I also heard the same thing. I collected flat rocks from the ocean and I’ll be painting them reddish pink to resemble strawberries. Hopefully it will work.
I have been growing strawberries for years and grow all the varieties. This growing season I have purchased two Green Stalks growing towers to fill up with strawberries, I am excited to get started but I live in Western Montana with my last frost date in mid-May however strawberries plants don't mind some frost, but snow would not be good for them. Thanks for sharing your beautiful berries with us.
You're welcome. I'm sure your towers will look stunning with the strawberries in.
Thanks for sharing all of this information. I didn't know that is why they were called strawberries. I will add some pinestraw to ours. God bless!
Thanks for watching. :-)
Some great advice! We had good success with Gariguette strawberry plants a few years back. Then mice started to come into the netted strawberry bed under a neighbour’s fence eating every scrap of fruit long before they were ripe. Attempts to stop this were unsuccessful and so I gave up, donating the plants to a colleague with a larger garden. Last year I decided to try again with different plants in containers; I bought Mount Everest plants, sold as ever bearing with long runners that would provide the additional plants that could be positioned above the originals. We had what I thought was a good site but while the plants produced plenty of flowers at the start of this year they all withered away to nothing. Runners are now growing but nothing like the 1m lengths advertised. I will look after the plants as best I can and let them have another year to produce some fruit.
Meanwhile, I found 1 Gariguette plant hidden under other things at the back of the old bed. I dug this up a few weeks ago and transferred it to a pot where it has gone from strength to strength. Plenty of strong runners bearing baby plants that root easily. I’m hoping for perhaps 20 small plants by the end of summer that I will grow on, protected from mice, in our “catio”. Having failed to find much success with strawberry towers in the past (great for a year but the plants below the top layer didn’t thrive) I plan to grow the individual plants in good sized pots hanging from the wire walls of the catio.
Fingers crossed for Gariguette strawberries next year! They really are tasty strawberries and worth growing despite a short fruiting season.
Happy to receive any advice on succeeding with either variety. 💐
Very best of luck with the Gariguette. Great that you rediscovered it at the back of the old bed! It will be the start of great things I'm sure. :-)
@@GrowVeg Doing well to date, so far we have parent plant and 4 rooted babies plus runners growing from each. Researching containers that will be comfortable for the plants next year, suspended from the wire panel walls of the catio. So far found options with no drainage or way to add a drip tray. Any suggestions will be welcomed. 😁
Thank you : )
Your Strawberries look Beautiful. 🍓
I'm not growing any this Year, but have done an upside down, screwed together, 2 litre bottle set up with them before, it's screwed to the wall.
It works very similar to the Towers, by just watering the top ones. Hope that made sense.
TFS GV, & take care everyone. ❤🙂🐶
What a great idea - I love the sound of your bottle planter! :-)
@@GrowVeg It's working really well in the 6 weeks we've had this set up, & it can be made big or small too. Take care GV. 👍🌱
Howdy Ben!👋 I plan on adding strawberries to our garden next year. Someone suggested the Alpine ones. After your tutorial I might do two kinds...the Alpine for garden snacking and the June bearing ones for jam.😀
Thanks for the knowledge!💕
Sounds like a great idea Valorie. The alpine ones pretty much look after themselves.
Great video. I might dig up my strawberries in the polytunnel and get the space for more carrot
Thank you . I do have the ground cover strawberries, the small ones which I have never eaten. I am going to do a tower as I have containers plus some strawberry plants. Thank you for an informative video. As always very helpful
I'm thinking, in the next year or two, about growing some strawberries in a vertical pallet planter to try it out on my small deck. I'll probably try ever bearing and June bearing together.
Sounds like a great idea Neil.
Great information! Thank you! I've started some strawberries in pots this year and they are doing great. Even now this late in the year I am getting a few berries. One question; Should I leave them outside over winter? I am in zone 6a which gets temps as low as -10. Or, rarely, a few degrees colder.
Yes, they should be fine outside. If you are growing them in pots though, perhaps move the pots to somewhere a little sheltered. They're fine to get frozen, just not all the time.
Thank you for acknowledging us vegan gardeners and giving us info. Will follow you for sure!
Thanks so much Ana, really appreciate that.
Fantastic video!
Thank you very much!:-)
You have persuaded me to try out a perpetual variety - I'm thinking Flamenco. Also, the Cambridge variety that I have in normal beds, always start well, but then end up rotting, so I will try using some form of raised planter.
Hope you get better luck this time round Mike.
Will try the black pepper..!!😊
I'm growing strawberries as well and I've got a hand full from two of my plants I'm also growing peas,cucumbers,carrots,brokoli,lettuce, tomato's, radishes and sunflowers. There all growing very well :). Also your videos have helped me sooooo much and I just wanted to say thank you.
That's so lovely to hear, thank you. You're growing some super stuff there. :-)
Wow . Super
I have not tried the alpine strawberries. I grow both June bearing and everbearing. I have to grow them with partial shade, as the sun burns up the leaves here in North Texas. Thanks for the tips. I struggle growing them and am always appreciative for all the tips to try to get a better growing crop and harvest.
Glad you found the tips useful. I hope you enjoy a superb crop this year. :-)