The forest floor of our entire farm is covered in wild strawberries! Late spring and summer you can just walk out and pick and eat all the wild strawberries you want! They are delicious!! I have an autistic son, when he disappears you will always find him sitting out in the field somewhere eating wild strawberries!
Lunker Junkies TV it sound satisfying harvest wild strawberry, I already found wild strawberry (thru App identification) in my new garden, can’t wait for it....
I put cut geotextile at the bottom of all my pots last season. It's like landscape fabric but much stronger and water passes through with no problem. It was to keep tree roots from growing up into the pots (my garden is near large oak trees, so this happens) and also stop potting soil coming out which keeps the saucers clean. Worked really well. I also lined my raised bed with it to prevent tree roots and although I think they will eventually find their way in, it is working so far. Grew the pink flowered strawberries this season and liked them a lot, an propagating the runners now (late autumn here). Good luck for a great season ahead.
I subscribed, i'll try this out for sure. I have lots of strawberry tips, first one is, grow them through a red plastic mulch. Studies done by Clemson University South Carolina found that Strawberries grown through red plastic mulch were not only sweeter and more aromatic, but they came out 20% bigger -- they think there's other strawbs nearby, so they get competitive. Also in Ireland, my country, a trial was done with strawberries grown in acid soils with high potassium content which resulted in Strawberries better all round flavor.
Lovely! I've taken to just covering the holes with shards or small rocks to keep the planting medium in the pot. I always soak my terracotta pots overnight before planting to keep them from robbing the soil of moisture when first planting them. I use soiled straw poultry bedding as mulch because I have great deal of it on hand; I like your gravel mulch. Your landscaping fabric was a clever trick. I've no idea what variety of strawberries I'm growing. I got them at a plant swap. I traded duck eggs for several kinds edible plants: strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries, witch hazel, etc. Thanks for the video!
Soaking terracotta before is a very good idea! And when it comes to garden materials, mulch, or anything else I personally think that the best choice is always the stuff you have on hand. Your poultry shed straw will be loaded with nutrients for plants. Thanks for the comment Kirsten and glad you enjoyed the video :)
Really enjoying all of your gardening videos! The strawberry varieties I currently have are: Albino, Rosalyn (which are also have pink flowers like yours), Jewel and Mara des Bois. I ordered the following to add to my garden this coming season: White Soul and Rainbow Treasure. Keep up the great work! Can’t wait to see all of your videos once you start setting up your garden in your new home.
Shuksan strawberries(pretty hardy too) in the Pacific Northwest are my favorites... good for eating fresh/freezing/freezer jam. Been picking and growing for over 50 years. As kids we picked berries for $ for school clothes. I have only run into wild strawberries a couple times in the Cascades. Yum! Early years the first berries in early June. My wife turned me onto you and your vids. Very pleasant gardener.... interesting and passionate. Thanks
I've seen a video on here that shows what happens when we put gravel and rocks in the bottom of a pot for drainage. Low and behold, it has the opposite effect from what would intend with the rocks. It creates an extra layer of interchange between different medium...the soil and rocks. Usually there is one interchange...the soil and the pot. With this extra layer of medium change, it moves the water separation layer farther up into the soil. The video did it with a clear plastic pot for the example and it really blew my mind ! If i can find it again I'll link it.
Hello from the states! I am so glad i found your channel. I have had such trouble with erosion out if the sides. The fabric is a great idea i'm excited to try! Thank you for sharing. Also, love the music choice.
I threw the tops from store bought strawberries in the soil 10 months ago and now I have plants! So now every time I eat strawberries I do the same thing. Hold the leafy bit take my bite then bury the little remaining berry. I've done that with BlackBerry and raspberries. Unfortunately I dont know the variety.
I think you will love the Mara des Bois the flavor is fantastic but the smell is heaven and will fill the room.I also grow chandler witch are the largest I have ever grown( Think huge berry 3 to 4 cm. stuffed with sweet marscapone . Albion,and seascape.All but the chandler are ever-bearing/day neutral and all have the home grown taste we all love,but the Mara des Bois even with points deducted for size is the winner.
Getting really excited to try them now! Chandler are new to me but sound like a good berry to mix with Mara des Bois for big batches of jam -- have you tried yet?
I've just received my 36 (3x12) bare root strawberries. I got Florence, Flamenco and Cambridge Favourite. I've put them straight in ground under fleece. I'm tempted to lift half and pot after watching this. I'm in Scotland but it has been surprisingly mild so far.
going with marsh melts and El Santa, first time with strawberries for me, planting in large containers with beans and in a terraced container as im moving house.
nice planters! im new to gardening in an allotment (first year) and this year im planting at least 2 difrent veriaties but proberbly more as i did plant the 2 types i had at home (a forest strawberry and a "normal" type) but also s few i got from other plotholders and some i "weeded" out of the allotment itself. i hope most will give fruit and i can see wich 1s i like most so i can grow the runners from them.
A variety of strawberry types can be very useful - some will fruit at different times so that your harvest time will be more spread out. Have a great time in your first year as an allotmenteer :)
I just started growing strawberries Fall of last year. I started getting my first harvest in March. They are Quinault an everbearing type. I'm in Texas Zone 8b near zone 9a. I have to say Fresh Picked Strawberries are AMAZING! They love full sun and very rich soil and they have been extremely hardy. I plan to grow more.
Thank You for your Strawberries growing! This year I started growing Strawberries in a plastic crate. Please wait for about 2-3 weeks I will send you the video. A lot of Strawberries pop up
I have Quinault, seascape and Albion that I put in last spring. At peak harvest I was getting about 18 to 24 a day. This year the bed is fully filled by runners so the harvest should be really good. (And the weather is way better) 64 sq ft bed.
I've heard the same thing about rocks... I now instead use old dead roots or chopped up tree limbs. I figure these may provide similar drainage initially if there is any such gain... more importantly, they will break down over time and provide nutrients.
This year I added a trio of plants in a new front bed, one being “Sweet Charlie” because that is my FIL’s name, and the other two being “Eversweet” for a slightly longer harvest. I also have an ancient strawberry pot, but now I think I will use that for a salvage trailing perennial we just picked up at the garden center. I will use your retention trick with some preserved moss from another project. Thanks!
My solution to the drainage problem was to use landscaping fabric cut to size in the bottom of the pot or container. It’s obviously much lighter than stones or ceramic pieces plus allows for that much more soil for plant root growth. It also prevents fine soil from messily flowing out of the drainage hole or completely clogging the hole itself impeding drainage.
There was a study done and it holds water in the pot to have the large pot shards in the bottom. So if you want to keep the roots wet all the tome leave them. I wouldn’t for strawberries.
thank you for this video! I wish our season would start here in Ontario. Last week we were hit with a bad ice storm. Things are melting and getting warmer, but our last frost date is always at the end of May. I dream of Strawberries!
I think i have wild strawberries possibly... I didn’t know about the older plants. I may have to get some more as im not sure how old mine are as they were there when i moved in. Another great video 😊
Definitely swap them out if you're unsure and you can create your own free plants from the runners they send out. There might be some younger plants there already that you can transplant too. Happy gardening :)
do you just use compost for potting mix and planting into in the garden or do you prefer to plant in soil? thankyou, i just got done planting heaps of strawberries do they really need to be replaced cant they just be like tidyed up and thinned outa bit, i suppose when thinning them the chances your keeping a new part in the soil and taking out the old is good enough lol i tried to grow fruit trees in pots in straight compost and they just slowly died im still not sure why
I use various types of compost for various purposes. I tend to sow seeds with John Innes no 1 which does has a soil content. Larger plants generally get planted in pure multi-purpose compost or composted farmyard manure (purchased). As for your strawberries. You can leave them to grow for years but you'll see less and less berries off them. That's why it's better to replace them every three years. Your plants will throw out runners every year -- just use them to create new plants the year before you need to replant the patch.
It’s a great place to grow cooler climate veg! Sadly, a lot of crops can’t be grown outdoors - tomatoes (because of Blight), peppers, aubergines, and quite a few others.
That's too bad about peppers. I wonder if espelette peppers would make it. They seem to do well in the French Basque Country. I guess jalapenos and Hatch chile peppers are out. :-(
Even if unglazed Terra cotta pot you were planting it had no drainage hole. I'd still add that bit in the bottom cause I'm a over water on occasion which can be bad for plants. It looks like you leave it outside so even though a small area pots without drainage could collect excess watering. How much rainfall you get is another reason for it. I'm a fan of strawberries I'm just never good at cultivating them.
They're a tricky plant for a lot of people -- especially in containers. I think mainly it's down to giving them the right about of moisture and it's not difficult to over or under water them.
For what it may be worth, I stopped adding a drainage layer years ago, and have never seen the need to go back. I just add a shallow layer of the potting mix to the bottom of the pot, firm it up, and then fill the remainder of the pot. The firm layer plugs the drainage holes while you are adding loose mix. The only advantage I can see for a layer of broken crockery is to prevent mice from nesting in large pots with side drainage holes, an occasional problem here with outdoor potted plants. But if your rodents are better behaved than those in the USA, then I think you can probably skip that step from now on.
I have gardened for decades. I don’t like crockery shards either. They are so annoying to deal with when emptying the pots. I use some plastic grocery bags or paper at the bottom of the pots. Great strawberry patch.
How did you get on with these strawberries? I was thinking of getting some as right now I only have alpine strawberries. Which of these (or any others) do you recommend. Was thinking perhaps the just add cream as they seem to be heavy croppers (up to 1kg according to TM
Thanks for this video! I love them. One more question: how do you stop slugs eating them? I have put straw, I have tried cardboard.... but they still steal under the soil and eat them. It's a real problem. Can you make some suggestions? I've also got a terracotta strawberry planter that I haven't used althought I've had it for years. Thanks for the demo. It makes it easier to do it. Re the drainage shards.. I do this but this year I came across a suggestion to line the bottom with a bit of cheap taram/ landscaping fabric or something like that to keep the soil in. Using it to wrap each plant is great! Will the roots grow through it to get the nutrients from all that manure? I will try the pallet construction if I can find your video on it. Hope you are still making videos! Thanks!
I have 4 small beds for strawberry's. Would it be usefull to first plant two beds, the next year one and the year after one again and then the fourth year replace one of the first beds with new stems from the other first year bed? This way i can use one bed solely for stem creation and the other 3 beds to rotate strawberry plants. So each year i have one bed with neew plants, one bed with one year old plants and one bed with 2 year old plants.
Its interesting how farm & garden practices in Europe at 8:02 differ from across the pond in the states. Nearly everyone in UK uses some form of dung and in the states its a Miracle product in a bag from a commercial factory. 50mm of horse or cow dung is good advise to revitalize the soil into a thriving garden on your allotment. I use similar practices and people think I'm Smacked out of me Head, but get results.
Well I am not growing varieties currently. Rather I am growing 3 different subspecies, all not hybrid. 1. Fragaria chiloensis or the chilean/beach strawberry, I just got a runner recently and I'm trying to baby it through the winter. 2. Fragaria Virginiana or the Virginia strawberry (most commonly called the wild strawberry here in the states) which I got up in the forest wild on my parents land. And 3. Fragaria vesca, also wild, from up on my parents land.
I’m trying one called Quinault (not sure of spelling) for the first time this year and although they were supposed to have large berries they are actually very tiny. I’ve been searching for a couple years for a red strawberry that actually produces large fruits because all the kinds I’ve tried that claim to are always small.
PrettyAliceMoon Hi Alice! It could be that the soil, watering, and position of your strawberry plants isn’t ideal. Can bees get to them to pollinate them? That’s another factor that you need to consider - lack of pollination leads to small and misshapen berries.
If you've not done it already, maybe change out the compost inside too? Strawberry pots need daily watering too -- even if it's raining. Good luck and hope you have a better harvest this year Alice :)
50 Ozark Beauty everbearing and 10 Mara des Bois. It's my first year trying the Mara des Bois. It'll be interesting to see how they do. I'm in Northern Indiana, USA.
Hi..i have one doubt . does Strawberries need full sun light or it should be in partial shade ? And what kind of climate required for flowering and producing fruit. Please help.
hello. love your videos! I made a strawberry planter like the one you made out of pallets! came out great! I have planted my strawberries and cant wait to eat them. my Question is, what do you do with the planter through winter? how do I store it with the stawberry plants so i can enjoy it the following years. I am in zone 5b
Quinalt is the only variety that I can find in central Florida. We grow them during winter and spring as annuals. Florida summers are too brutal for strawberries.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way 👍🏼 I’ve heard that Florida is a big winter strawberry growing region. I suppose all those plants will be annuals too
Lovely Greens yes winter is Florida strawberry season and we go to the u-pick farms to pick em. My kids love them.i try to grow them at home but I don’t get a big harvest I guess I have to use more compost or better soil.
Realmente me gustaría tener mi propio huerto y plantar fresas tiempo atrás intenté hacerlo en una maceta pero simplemente estás no germinaron lo intente hacerlo dos veces y aún no entiendo por qué aún no me resulta hacerlo
Thanks Brian -- I decided to plant my pots up that way after the first year without. A lot of the compost around each plant eroded out and the plants really suffered.
Thank you for the video! Its lovely! How do you keep away aphids,ants and slugs? Last year and this year too i lost so much!! :-( Only slugs ate them !! Some tips how do keep them away?? Grettings from Belgium!
The forest floor of our entire farm is covered in wild strawberries! Late spring and summer you can just walk out and pick and eat all the wild strawberries you want! They are delicious!! I have an autistic son, when he disappears you will always find him sitting out in the field somewhere eating wild strawberries!
Lunker Junkies TV it sound satisfying harvest wild strawberry, I already found wild strawberry (thru App identification) in my new garden, can’t wait for it....
Nice
You can't beat that - no planting, no sowing - just eating!
I like that clay pot with the holes on the side like the strawberry plants come out of them.👍
I started with 11 plants 4 years ago. I now have 280. That's a good return from £22 plus all the fruit we ate 👍
Wow that’s impressive, what’s the variety you are growing?
Beautifully done appreciate the way you plant the plants.
I put cut geotextile at the bottom of all my pots last season. It's like landscape fabric but much stronger and water passes through with no problem. It was to keep tree roots from growing up into the pots (my garden is near large oak trees, so this happens) and also stop potting soil coming out which keeps the saucers clean. Worked really well.
I also lined my raised bed with it to prevent tree roots and although I think they will eventually find their way in, it is working so far.
Grew the pink flowered strawberries this season and liked them a lot, an propagating the runners now (late autumn here).
Good luck for a great season ahead.
Trees can be such a nuisance -- they and raspberry runners! Good tip with using landscape fabric at the bottom of pots :D
I subscribed, i'll try this out for sure. I have lots of strawberry tips, first one is, grow them through a red plastic mulch. Studies done by Clemson University South Carolina found that Strawberries grown through red plastic mulch were not only sweeter and more aromatic, but they came out 20% bigger -- they think there's other strawbs nearby, so they get competitive. Also in Ireland, my country, a trial was done with strawberries grown in acid soils with high potassium content which resulted in Strawberries better all round flavor.
Really? Good to know about the one plastic red mulch!! How do keep away slugs,ants and aphids to come to my strawberries? Thank you!
Beautiful strawberries
Lovely!
I've taken to just covering the holes with shards or small rocks to keep the planting medium in the pot. I always soak my terracotta pots overnight before planting to keep them from robbing the soil of moisture when first planting them. I use soiled straw poultry bedding as mulch because I have great deal of it on hand; I like your gravel mulch.
Your landscaping fabric was a clever trick.
I've no idea what variety of strawberries I'm growing. I got them at a plant swap. I traded duck eggs for several kinds edible plants: strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries, witch hazel, etc.
Thanks for the video!
Soaking terracotta before is a very good idea! And when it comes to garden materials, mulch, or anything else I personally think that the best choice is always the stuff you have on hand. Your poultry shed straw will be loaded with nutrients for plants. Thanks for the comment Kirsten and glad you enjoyed the video :)
Really enjoying all of your gardening videos!
The strawberry varieties I currently have are: Albino, Rosalyn (which are also have pink flowers like yours), Jewel and Mara des Bois.
I ordered the following to add to my garden this coming season: White Soul and Rainbow Treasure.
Keep up the great work! Can’t wait to see all of your videos once you start setting up your garden in your new home.
We grow Seascape here in Northern California. Thank you for the lovely video.
You have a lovely garden! Thanks for sharing and nicely explaining. Great tutorial! Have a nice day!
You're welcome Milica and have a great day too :)
Thanks for the great video, clear voice and presentation. Very useful
Shuksan strawberries(pretty hardy too) in the Pacific Northwest are my favorites... good for eating fresh/freezing/freezer jam.
Been picking and growing for over 50 years. As kids we picked berries for $ for school clothes. I have only run into wild strawberries a couple times in the Cascades. Yum! Early years the first berries in early June.
My wife turned me onto you and your vids. Very pleasant gardener.... interesting and passionate.
Thanks
Well made video and tunes. Clever idea for the pot erosion! I will do this. Happy growing!
Thanks for the info I'll try implementing so of that in my yard
I loved your video on making the pallet strawberry planter!
I've seen a video on here that shows what happens when we put gravel and rocks in the bottom of a pot for drainage. Low and behold, it has the opposite effect from what would intend with the rocks. It creates an extra layer of interchange between different medium...the soil and rocks. Usually there is one interchange...the soil and the pot. With this extra layer of medium change, it moves the water separation layer farther up into the soil. The video did it with a clear plastic pot for the example and it really blew my mind ! If i can find it again I'll link it.
IIRC, it's called the Perched Water Table effect.
Is it better or worse for the berries?
Hello from the states! I am so glad i found your channel. I have had such trouble with erosion out if the sides. The fabric is a great idea i'm excited to try! Thank you for sharing. Also, love the music choice.
Very well presented.
Albion.
Please keep sharing.
I threw the tops from store bought strawberries in the soil 10 months ago and now I have plants! So now every time I eat strawberries I do the same thing. Hold the leafy bit take my bite then bury the little remaining berry. I've done that with BlackBerry and raspberries. Unfortunately I dont know the variety.
Sean DePoppe great tip
I think you will love the Mara des Bois the flavor is fantastic but the smell is heaven and will fill the room.I also grow chandler witch are the largest I have ever grown( Think huge berry 3 to 4 cm. stuffed with sweet marscapone . Albion,and seascape.All but the chandler are ever-bearing/day neutral and all have the home grown taste we all love,but the Mara des Bois even with points deducted for size is the winner.
Getting really excited to try them now! Chandler are new to me but sound like a good berry to mix with Mara des Bois for big batches of jam -- have you tried yet?
Hi Tanya like the pink flower strawberry plants interesting video David
They're cute aren't they? Can't wait until more begin flowering
lovely video and good tip regarding the strawberry planter thank you.
Welcome :)
lovely vid and how amazing that little pink flower looks! This year I am growing the selva variety!
Thanks for sharing!
A very inspiring idea. Thank you for the presentation.
New subscriber from the U.S. very nice strawberry beds. Great channel!
I’m from Maryland and I am growing Albion and Shuksan strawberries this year. 👍
Good idea about planting your bareroots in containers. I wished I had done that. Mine didn't come up well. Nice video.
I've just received my 36 (3x12) bare root strawberries. I got Florence, Flamenco and Cambridge Favourite. I've put them straight in ground under fleece. I'm tempted to lift half and pot after watching this. I'm in Scotland but it has been surprisingly mild so far.
I’ve got a few varieties - Florence, Alice, but my favourite has been Elsanta.
What do you like best about Elsanta?
going with marsh melts and El Santa, first time with strawberries for me, planting in large containers with beans and in a terraced container as im moving house.
I’m planting cavendish and heritage strawberries this year. Thanks for the video!
Great video instructions! Nice greenhouse and garden.
Me encantó tu vídeo espero en el futuro poder hacer mi propio huerto con mis propias fresas
nice planters! im new to gardening in an allotment (first year) and this year im planting at least 2 difrent veriaties but proberbly more as i did plant the 2 types i had at home (a forest strawberry and a "normal" type) but also s few i got from other plotholders and some i "weeded" out of the allotment itself. i hope most will give fruit and i can see wich 1s i like most so i can grow the runners from them.
A variety of strawberry types can be very useful - some will fruit at different times so that your harvest time will be more spread out. Have a great time in your first year as an allotmenteer :)
I just started growing strawberries Fall of last year. I started getting my first harvest in March. They are Quinault an everbearing type. I'm in Texas Zone 8b near zone 9a. I have to say Fresh Picked Strawberries are AMAZING! They love full sun and very rich soil and they have been extremely hardy. I plan to grow more.
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Gorgeous soft spoken smart woman, wish I could find one like you.
Thank You for your Strawberries growing! This year I started growing Strawberries in a plastic crate. Please wait for about 2-3 weeks I will send you the video. A lot of Strawberries pop up
I have Quinault, seascape and Albion that I put in last spring. At peak harvest I was getting about 18 to 24 a day.
This year the bed is fully filled by runners so the harvest should be really good. (And the weather is way better)
64 sq ft bed.
You are quite a strawberry yourself !!!keep it up
I've heard the same thing about rocks... I now instead use old dead roots or chopped up tree limbs. I figure these may provide similar drainage initially if there is any such gain... more importantly, they will break down over time and provide nutrients.
I really enjoy your videos. I'm glad I found your channel.
You got a New subscriber 😊 I'm your following from now on, I've lot interest in planting, you have a beautiful garden
This year I added a trio of plants in a new front bed, one being “Sweet Charlie” because that is my FIL’s name, and the other two being “Eversweet” for a slightly longer harvest. I also have an ancient strawberry pot, but now I think I will use that for a salvage trailing perennial we just picked up at the garden center. I will use your retention trick with some preserved moss from another project. Thanks!
Sweet Charlie is such a cute name for a strawberry!
It's so hard to throw the old plants away but at least they can make new compost. I'm growing everbearing flamenco this year.
Cambridge this year , fingers crossed for me up here in Nairn xxx
Excellent tips.
Thanks!
Greetings from Belgium :)
My solution to the drainage problem was to use landscaping fabric cut to size in the bottom of the pot or container. It’s obviously much lighter than stones or ceramic pieces plus allows for that much more soil for plant root growth. It also prevents fine soil from messily flowing out of the drainage hole or completely clogging the hole itself impeding drainage.
That’s a great tip 👍🏼
Hmm 😋 so many delicious strawberries, a great video 👍🌻🐝☀️
greet Stefan
You are beautiful. Love your accent!
Great video
There was a study done and it holds water in the pot to have the large pot shards in the bottom. So if you want to keep the roots wet all the tome leave them. I wouldn’t for strawberries.
Great video and tips
Thanks Keith :)
thank you for this video! I wish our season would start here in Ontario. Last week we were hit with a bad ice storm. Things are melting and getting warmer, but our last frost date is always at the end of May. I dream of Strawberries!
Wow that's a late last frost date! You must grow a lot of edibles in polytunnels and greenhouses in your area?
That made me want strawberries now.
Perfect timing then -- now's the time to get plants and get them in the ground!
I think i have wild strawberries possibly... I didn’t know about the older plants. I may have to get some more as im not sure how old mine are as they were there when i moved in. Another great video 😊
Definitely swap them out if you're unsure and you can create your own free plants from the runners they send out. There might be some younger plants there already that you can transplant too. Happy gardening :)
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do you just use compost for potting mix and planting into in the garden or do you prefer to plant in soil? thankyou, i just got done planting heaps of strawberries do they really need to be replaced cant they just be like tidyed up and thinned outa bit, i suppose when thinning them the chances your keeping a new part in the soil and taking out the old is good enough lol i tried to grow fruit trees in pots in straight compost and they just slowly died im still not sure why
I use various types of compost for various purposes. I tend to sow seeds with John Innes no 1 which does has a soil content. Larger plants generally get planted in pure multi-purpose compost or composted farmyard manure (purchased).
As for your strawberries. You can leave them to grow for years but you'll see less and less berries off them. That's why it's better to replace them every three years. Your plants will throw out runners every year -- just use them to create new plants the year before you need to replant the patch.
Wow! Seems like IOM soil can grow anything and the climate is not too severe (not too hot and not too cold).
It’s a great place to grow cooler climate veg! Sadly, a lot of crops can’t be grown outdoors - tomatoes (because of Blight), peppers, aubergines, and quite a few others.
That's too bad about peppers. I wonder if espelette peppers would make it. They seem to do well in the French Basque Country. I guess jalapenos and Hatch chile peppers are out. :-(
Even if unglazed Terra cotta pot you were planting it had no drainage hole. I'd still add that bit in the bottom cause I'm a over water on occasion which can be bad for plants. It looks like you leave it outside so even though a small area pots without drainage could collect excess watering. How much rainfall you get is another reason for it. I'm a fan of strawberries I'm just never good at cultivating them.
They're a tricky plant for a lot of people -- especially in containers. I think mainly it's down to giving them the right about of moisture and it's not difficult to over or under water them.
Very nice
For what it may be worth, I stopped adding a drainage layer years ago, and have never seen the need to go back. I just add a shallow layer of the potting mix to the bottom of the pot, firm it up, and then fill the remainder of the pot. The firm layer plugs the drainage holes while you are adding loose mix. The only advantage I can see for a layer of broken crockery is to prevent mice from nesting in large pots with side drainage holes, an occasional problem here with outdoor potted plants. But if your rodents are better behaved than those in the USA, then I think you can probably skip that step from now on.
J P Rodents in the pots! Just trying to imagine (shriek! Lol)
I have gardened for decades. I don’t like crockery shards either. They are so annoying to deal with when emptying the pots. I use some plastic grocery bags or paper at the bottom of the pots. Great strawberry patch.
I’m growing my strawberries in this grow tower.
i want that green house!
How did you get on with these strawberries? I was thinking of getting some as right now I only have alpine strawberries. Which of these (or any others) do you recommend. Was thinking perhaps the just add cream as they seem to be heavy croppers (up to 1kg according to TM
Thanks for this video! I love them. One more question: how do you stop slugs eating them? I have put straw, I have tried cardboard.... but they still steal under the soil and eat them. It's a real problem. Can you make some suggestions? I've also got a terracotta strawberry planter that I haven't used althought I've had it for years. Thanks for the demo. It makes it easier to do it. Re the drainage shards.. I do this but this year I came across a suggestion to line the bottom with a bit of cheap taram/ landscaping fabric or something like that to keep the soil in. Using it to wrap each plant is great! Will the roots grow through it to get the nutrients from all that manure? I will try the pallet construction if I can find your video on it. Hope you are still making videos! Thanks!
Use beer baits for the slugs. Google it, can confirm works, even with old, stale skunky beer
I have 4 small beds for strawberry's. Would it be usefull to first plant two beds, the next year one and the year after one again and then the fourth year replace one of the first beds with new stems from the other first year bed? This way i can use one bed solely for stem creation and the other 3 beds to rotate strawberry plants. So each year i have one bed with neew plants, one bed with one year old plants and one bed with 2 year old plants.
Sounds like a plan 🙂
love the music
what is the soil mixture that you using is it compost and mulch
What are the best for eating and homemade jam?
Its interesting how farm & garden practices in Europe at 8:02 differ from across the pond in the states. Nearly everyone in UK uses some form of dung and in the states its a Miracle product in a bag from a commercial factory. 50mm of horse or cow dung is good advise to revitalize the soil into a thriving garden on your allotment. I use similar practices and people think I'm Smacked out of me Head, but get results.
Well I am not growing varieties currently. Rather I am growing 3 different subspecies, all not hybrid. 1. Fragaria chiloensis or the chilean/beach strawberry, I just got a runner recently and I'm trying to baby it through the winter. 2. Fragaria Virginiana or the Virginia strawberry (most commonly called the wild strawberry here in the states) which I got up in the forest wild on my parents land. And 3. Fragaria vesca, also wild, from up on my parents land.
I made a planter for a variety I was surprised had very red flowers. Should have known. Since they were called, Berry Basket Rose Strawberries.
I’m trying one called Quinault (not sure of spelling) for the first time this year and although they were supposed to have large berries they are actually very tiny. I’ve been searching for a couple years for a red strawberry that actually produces large fruits because all the kinds I’ve tried that claim to are always small.
PrettyAliceMoon Hi Alice! It could be that the soil, watering, and position of your strawberry plants isn’t ideal. Can bees get to them to pollinate them? That’s another factor that you need to consider - lack of pollination leads to small and misshapen berries.
Lovely Greens • Gardening, Beauty & Beekeeping Thanks for the tips. I may try moving the pot to another area if the garden.
If you've not done it already, maybe change out the compost inside too? Strawberry pots need daily watering too -- even if it's raining. Good luck and hope you have a better harvest this year Alice :)
Mam what variety is ur strawberries w/ pink flowers? Thanks!! a lot.
50 Ozark Beauty everbearing and 10 Mara des Bois. It's my first year trying the Mara des Bois. It'll be interesting to see how they do. I'm in Northern Indiana, USA.
So we’re both taking a chance with them - I have a feeling that growing Mara des Bois will be a good decision though!
Didn't you use wire in the pallet strawberry planter as well as straw?
Where did you get those awesome orange overalls?? Also, that is for the tips on the strawberries. Going to try a bunch this spring.
Hi..i have one doubt . does Strawberries need full sun light or it should be in partial shade ? And what kind of climate required for flowering and producing fruit. Please help.
You are so pretty 🥺
Love your channel
hello. love your videos! I made a strawberry planter like the one you made out of pallets! came out great! I have planted my strawberries and cant wait to eat them. my Question is, what do you do with the planter through winter? how do I store it with the stawberry plants so i can enjoy it the following years. I am in zone 5b
Quinalt is the only variety that I can find in central Florida. We grow them during winter and spring as annuals. Florida summers are too brutal for strawberries.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way 👍🏼 I’ve heard that Florida is a big winter strawberry growing region. I suppose all those plants will be annuals too
Lovely Greens yes winter is Florida strawberry season and we go to the u-pick farms to pick em. My kids love them.i try to grow them at home but I don’t get a big harvest I guess I have to use more compost or better soil.
Realmente me gustaría tener mi propio huerto y plantar fresas tiempo atrás intenté hacerlo en una maceta pero simplemente estás no germinaron lo intente hacerlo dos veces y aún no entiendo por qué aún no me resulta hacerlo
Las fresas requieren de muchos cuidados y por lo general tardan tiempo en germinar y mas aún si son semillas
Do you know if camarosa strawberries can grow in zone 7 USA ?
How do you feed the existing strawberry containers?
P.S. I love Jazz :)
Compost teas made with comfrey, nettles, and seaweed work a treat!
It'll have to be comfrey and worm tea here. I'm inland bound :)
Where is the link to building a pallet raised bed? Sounds interesting.
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I grow Hula Berries (same as Pineberries?) in Pacific NW USA. They are amazing, hardy, pest resistant and birds don't touch them.
that's excellent advice using fabric to prevent loss of compost......................brian
Thanks Brian -- I decided to plant my pots up that way after the first year without. A lot of the compost around each plant eroded out and the plants really suffered.
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Trying to see why my strawberries are still green and hard and how much water do they need
They need time to ripen. As for water - they need as much as can keep the soil damp.
I accidentally cut the baby straw berry but it’s small and it’s red? I have it in a pot rn and just gave it water
Thank you for the video! Its lovely! How do you keep away aphids,ants and slugs? Last year and this year too i lost so much!! :-( Only slugs ate them !! Some tips how do keep them away?? Grettings from Belgium!
Catching up on your videos. 😊
Spettacolare. Grazie.
Wowww....greenhouse I really want to build a greenhouse but...i dont know the step
Link to greenhouse behind you ?
great.
I wonder - Are Heritage Strawberries the best to grow and if so specifically what type of Heritage strawberry?