just moved house this year and have only started up my garden again and strawberries so this was pefect timing and ive learnt a lot. Thank you so much - From Belfast
The Isle of Man has a temperate climate that rarely drops to freezing and has never been hotter than 29.5⁰C (85⁰F). It's a fantastic strawberry-growing climate.
Absolutely lovely to see your garden in bloom! I must say that i have a ton of strawberries and raspberries this year but my beans won't grow. I blame the much amount of rain. I,m actually thinking about a small greenhouse for the beans. They're butterbeans, don't know if you know them but here they're very hard to get them fresh. They're mostly in jars and that destroyes the taste to my opinion. But, i won't give up! Oh and my Jonagold apples are blooming away :D Finally little apples are showing. That makes me happy :)
A tip for your beans - put the seeds in a tupperware covered by a damp paper towel. When they sprout, pop the seeds individually into pots filled with potting mix. Grow them on until they're a few inches tall before planting out. Hopefully, it's drier by that time, and you can bypass any issues with slugs, snails, or rodents eating the seeds. I'm doing exactly this right now with mine!
I am trying to grow straw berries in the Caribbean and I said to myself that if you guys who live in cooler areas and need to put out in the sun that I needed to do the opposite if I am in the heated tropics (planted mines in the shaded areas of my garden) ….. but I find they aren’t doing great I have to try your tips and see if I make a difference! Thanks for sharing!!!!!
Hi I read your comment, I agree keep it natural and it will be plentiful. I also grow strawberries and we have a wonderful harvest coming, I just did a full garden tour❤
Wonderful video and great information! We have our first harvest of strawberries this year from 2 plants. We have so many ants in the soil of the strawberries. They seem to love them in particular over the other things in our raised bed garden. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with ants?
I wouldn't worry about the ants... They won't harm the plants or eat the berries. If you really want them to move on, water the bed more often. They only like living in dryish soil.
Great video and very informative. This is my first year planting everbearing strawberries. I was told the first year won’t grow strawberries but the second year will. With that said, will I not see any berries or runners this year? When will I start seeing strawberries? I’m anxiously waiting 😀. Thank you
It depends on the variety! When I first planted Pineberries (everbearing), many years ago, I was disappointed that I had no berries the first year. After that, they were prolific. This year, I planted new overbearing strawberries in the pallet planter, and as you can see, we have berries 🍓
Honey oi 😊 Honeoye - a New York village and town, a falls , a creek through the village of Honeoye Falls, a Finger Lake and a strawberry developed at Cornell’s Ag farm in Geneva, NY. 😊
I have berries in a raised bed. Just when I decided to take the berries the next day, something else beat me to it. I used a netting such as yours. How do I prevent the little thief from getting in? Any ideas? Should the netting go over the bed tops and anchor them down? Ideas would be appreciated. Thank you ❤
Could be rodents getting under the netting? I'd advise setting up the netting as I do in the video. Hoops or supports, tightly stretched netting, and well-secured at the bottom.
Hi there, first time strawberry growing and I have a question… I made your planter and it has ever bearing variety (Cambridge) and I got them bare rooted this year, they are putting out runners and I’m not sure whether to make new plants or cut them off as it’s their first year? Advice please …. I love strawberries 🍓🍓🍓🍓
My first strawberries are probably about 2 weeks ago yet. I have just picked the first 'Merton Glory' cherries, but those are in my polytunnel. This lower than average cool weather in June is holding back the ripening time a bit?
What a great video, dear Tanya. Did you know, that strawberries whitened your teeth? So they are really a must have in the garden. Not just yummy, but healthy too. Greetings to Maggie, how is she doing? XX
If this happened to me, I'd remove the worst of the leaves encircle each plant in a wide, 1/2" thick band of aged manure, and keep on top of watering. I think they'd spring back.
I don't get much out of my strawberries. I have come to accept that they just don't do well in our hot climate and with the weather changing the way it has the past couple of years, I probably won't get any more out of them than I do now. If anything, I will get less, maybe none. This week, Cyprus had its first days above 45 degrees Celsius! It is only June, but we are getting August temperatures. We have seen these unpredictable temperatures more and more in the last few years. We will have to be flexible and adapt and change, if we want to harvest anything, in the coming years.
Did you know that most of the UK's winter strawberries are grown in Egypt? California is also arid and hot, yet most of the strawberries grown in the United States are grown there. If you want to have another go, you may want to consider changing the way you grow strawberries - varieties, irrigation, and soil. Also, strawberries are less productive after their third growing season. If yours are older than three years, use the runners to make new plants, then replace them with the new ones.
Heeey Tanya, I live in Netherlands, zone 9b but it's quite similar here than there. You know what I am using as mulch? Hennep/hemp bedding for horses. It's eco, contains no seeds, top is dry quick and bottom protect soil from drying out for days or weeks sometimes. And, they are easy to decompost, I usually mix it into the soil after the season and after that in the spring I spread layer of new soul and mulch it again. Have done it 2 seasons like that and I can't tell you how easy it is. I do have also chickens and quails so it's 3 usages in 1 space. From all mulches hennep/hemp is the best for me. I am using it also in pots and also in hanging baskets and strawberries.. (Edited) And because it do dry out quicker at the top, slugs don't like it very much. Maybe you can try it in 1 bed. I ain't going back to different mulch 😅
Hello T L G . The Isle of Man must be like a different country to Yorkshire where i live weatherwise . This Spring and Summer so far has been the wettest ,coldest , with the least amount of sunshine ever and no sign for better in the forecast . Nothing is growing in my little South facing garden . My Tomato plants are about 10 inches high Strawberries. Zilch. and my 3 Blueberry plants have died. either drown or froze to death i think . Thats the British summer for you . Pfft!!. Huff!!!!
It's apparently been the hottest May on record here, but it doesn't feel like that. It's been a mixed bag of wet and cold nights but enough sun to get the garden going. Let's hope for better weather for all of Britain for the rest of the year 🙏
Same here. South facing garden and nothing is growing this year. Blueberry was full of flowers and then, suddenly, died. Strawberries were flowering loads, but the berries are just not growing.
Mine aren't very sweet. I have several varieties and the plants are big and healthy. Is there a secret to sweeten up the berries? I read to withhold water for a day or 2 before picking but that didn't seem to help. Love your vlogs😊
Berries that are unripe or that ripen out of the sun tend to be less sweet. Are your plants in a full-sun aspect? Has the weather been dull? Are the berries shaded too much by leaves and other plants?
Maggie is doing MUCH better. She's confused to my office for six weeks, though, and is pretty frustrated. Her bones need time to mend, but she thinks she's fine and is raring to go outside!
Thank you for all your knowledge and tips on growing strawberries. ❤
My wife really enjoys your book. Thanks for sharing.
Please tell her that I'm very pleased. Thank you 🙂
Just harvested this seasons first bunch of strawberries from my two year old everbearing plants today! Delicious.
Love from Malmö, southern Sweden
Wonderful! Enjoy those yummy berrie 😋
lovely green 💚
Excellent video. Informative, well paced to keep the interest of the viewer.
I just planted 3 new strawberry beds. All June bearers. Now I need to plant a bed of everbearers. Thanks for the video! TeresaSue
You're most welcome 🙂💚
Wow so beautiful and amazingly lush! 🌱🌱💚 I only have one,.hopeinf for runners to expand
Mine are just starting to ripen here in Boston , all in raised beds great video love watching you.
Thank you and enjoy the harvest to come!
Thank you for this informative video. Your garden is beautiful.
just moved house this year and have only started up my garden again and strawberries so this was pefect timing and ive learnt a lot. Thank you so much - From Belfast
Wonderful! Glad to help and best of luck with the new garden 🍓
Thanks for this. I used raw sheep's wool as a mulch for my strawberries last year and it worked amazingly well.
Great idea!
Enjoyed the video and found the gardening tips very useful.
lovely video tanya
Appreciate this video youve explained it so well. I have a strawberry you pick for my family and we keep it 100% natural, just uploaded my garden tour
Thanks so much for this video! I always presumed the Isle of Man was too cold and grey to grow strawberries so this is so exciting thanks again 🎉
The Isle of Man has a temperate climate that rarely drops to freezing and has never been hotter than 29.5⁰C (85⁰F). It's a fantastic strawberry-growing climate.
Thank you for a very helpful tips, I have Strawberry plants in my tiny garden and I can use all your idea.
Hello. And Thanks ❤
Interesting and so informative!
Absolutely lovely to see your garden in bloom! I must say that i have a ton of strawberries and raspberries this year but my beans won't grow. I blame the much amount of rain. I,m actually thinking about a small greenhouse for the beans. They're butterbeans, don't know if you know them but here they're very hard to get them fresh. They're mostly in jars and that destroyes the taste to my opinion. But, i won't give up! Oh and my Jonagold apples are blooming away :D Finally little apples are showing. That makes me happy :)
A tip for your beans - put the seeds in a tupperware covered by a damp paper towel. When they sprout, pop the seeds individually into pots filled with potting mix. Grow them on until they're a few inches tall before planting out. Hopefully, it's drier by that time, and you can bypass any issues with slugs, snails, or rodents eating the seeds. I'm doing exactly this right now with mine!
I am trying to grow straw berries in the Caribbean and I said to myself that if you guys who live in cooler areas and need to put out in the sun that I needed to do the opposite if I am in the heated tropics (planted mines in the shaded areas of my garden) ….. but I find they aren’t doing great I have to try your tips and see if I make a difference! Thanks for sharing!!!!!
Good luck!
Amazing 🤩
My strawberries weren't doing well until I acidified the soil.
Hi I read your comment, I agree keep it natural and it will be plentiful. I also grow strawberries and we have a wonderful harvest coming, I just did a full garden tour❤
Wonderful video and great information! We have our first harvest of strawberries this year from 2 plants. We have so many ants in the soil of the strawberries. They seem to love them in particular over the other things in our raised bed garden. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with ants?
I wouldn't worry about the ants... They won't harm the plants or eat the berries. If you really want them to move on, water the bed more often. They only like living in dryish soil.
Great video and very informative. This is my first year planting everbearing strawberries. I was told the first year won’t grow strawberries but the second year will. With that said, will I not see any berries or runners this year? When will I start seeing strawberries? I’m anxiously waiting 😀. Thank you
It depends on the variety! When I first planted Pineberries (everbearing), many years ago, I was disappointed that I had no berries the first year. After that, they were prolific. This year, I planted new overbearing strawberries in the pallet planter, and as you can see, we have berries 🍓
❤ thank you
Amazing! ❤🔥🍓
I’m jealous because mine are young plants. Next year they will produce more.
They will! And the wait will be worth it :)
Honey oi 😊 Honeoye - a New York village and town, a falls , a creek through the village of Honeoye Falls, a Finger Lake and a strawberry developed at Cornell’s Ag farm in Geneva, NY. 😊
Thank you for the pronunciation correction 🙏
I have berries in a raised bed. Just when I decided to take the berries the next day, something else beat me to it. I used a netting such as yours. How do I prevent the little thief from getting in? Any ideas? Should the netting go over the bed tops and anchor them down? Ideas would be appreciated. Thank you ❤
Could be rodents getting under the netting? I'd advise setting up the netting as I do in the video. Hoops or supports, tightly stretched netting, and well-secured at the bottom.
Thank you! I did not anchor down the sides. I will today. I have a great looking bounty coming, and it WILL be mine this time🙌
Hi there, first time strawberry growing and I have a question…
I made your planter and it has ever bearing variety (Cambridge) and I got them bare rooted this year, they are putting out runners and I’m not sure whether to make new plants or cut them off as it’s their first year?
Advice please …. I love strawberries 🍓🍓🍓🍓
My first strawberries are probably about 2 weeks ago yet. I have just picked the first 'Merton Glory' cherries, but those are in my polytunnel. This lower than average cool weather in June is holding back the ripening time a bit?
It's a very weird spring! Dull is probably the term I'd use, and not great for a lot of plant growth
What a great video, dear Tanya. Did you know, that strawberries whitened your teeth? So they are really a must have in the garden. Not just yummy, but healthy too. Greetings to Maggie, how is she doing? XX
She's doing much better! Three more weeks of house arrest left, but by her antics and howling she thinks she's healed already!
When do you pick your Strawberries
When they're red and fully ripe.
My honeyoe are in year two and have some spotting on the leaves and very few/small berries. Wondering if I need to treat for disease?
If this happened to me, I'd remove the worst of the leaves encircle each plant in a wide, 1/2" thick band of aged manure, and keep on top of watering. I think they'd spring back.
@@Lovelygreens Thanks so much - will do!
I don't get much out of my strawberries. I have come to accept that they just don't do well in our hot climate and with the weather changing the way it has the past couple of years, I probably won't get any more out of them than I do now. If anything, I will get less, maybe none. This week, Cyprus had its first days above 45 degrees Celsius! It is only June, but we are getting August temperatures. We have seen these unpredictable temperatures more and more in the last few years. We will have to be flexible and adapt and change, if we want to harvest anything, in the coming years.
Did you know that most of the UK's winter strawberries are grown in Egypt? California is also arid and hot, yet most of the strawberries grown in the United States are grown there. If you want to have another go, you may want to consider changing the way you grow strawberries - varieties, irrigation, and soil. Also, strawberries are less productive after their third growing season. If yours are older than three years, use the runners to make new plants, then replace them with the new ones.
Heeey Tanya, I live in Netherlands, zone 9b but it's quite similar here than there. You know what I am using as mulch? Hennep/hemp bedding for horses. It's eco, contains no seeds, top is dry quick and bottom protect soil from drying out for days or weeks sometimes. And, they are easy to decompost, I usually mix it into the soil after the season and after that in the spring I spread layer of new soul and mulch it again. Have done it 2 seasons like that and I can't tell you how easy it is. I do have also chickens and quails so it's 3 usages in 1 space. From all mulches hennep/hemp is the best for me. I am using it also in pots and also in hanging baskets and strawberries..
(Edited) And because it do dry out quicker at the top, slugs don't like it very much. Maybe you can try it in 1 bed. I ain't going back to different mulch 😅
Brilliant reuse idea for garden mulch!
Hello T L G . The Isle of Man must be like a different country to Yorkshire where i live weatherwise . This Spring and Summer so far has been the wettest ,coldest , with the least amount of sunshine ever and no sign for better in the forecast . Nothing is growing in my little South facing garden . My Tomato plants are about 10 inches high Strawberries. Zilch. and my 3 Blueberry plants have died. either drown or froze to death i think . Thats the British summer for you . Pfft!!. Huff!!!!
It's apparently been the hottest May on record here, but it doesn't feel like that. It's been a mixed bag of wet and cold nights but enough sun to get the garden going. Let's hope for better weather for all of Britain for the rest of the year 🙏
@@Lovelygreens My fingers are crossed. 🤞
Same here. South facing garden and nothing is growing this year. Blueberry was full of flowers and then, suddenly, died. Strawberries were flowering loads, but the berries are just not growing.
Mine aren't very sweet. I have several varieties and the plants are big and healthy. Is there a secret to sweeten up the berries? I read to withhold water for a day or 2 before picking but that didn't seem to help. Love your vlogs😊
Maybe pick them a little later? Allow them to ripen a day or two more?
Berries that are unripe or that ripen out of the sun tend to be less sweet. Are your plants in a full-sun aspect? Has the weather been dull? Are the berries shaded too much by leaves and other plants?
Great video. Tanya like to ask how Maggie is doing at the moment if that's ok.❤🩹
Maggie is doing MUCH better. She's confused to my office for six weeks, though, and is pretty frustrated. Her bones need time to mend, but she thinks she's fine and is raring to go outside!