Growing Strawberries Tips
Jul 23rd, 2010 by admin
Growing strawberries is not so difficult as you might think. Strawberry might actually be the easiest fruit to grow at home and it is definitely very tasty when grown in the garden. You can be sure that strawberry grown in your garden wil be tastier than the one you buy from shop. That is because commercial strawberries have to travel a long way. For example most of the strawberries found in UK supermarkets have come from very remote places like the Canary Islands, Argentina or Egypt. Strawberries do not travel very well and their flavour suffers. There are many good reasons to grow them at home. Here are few excellent tips for growing strawberries.
First, location is very important. You will get the most delicious flavour of your strawberries if you grow them in sunny places. Try growing strawberries in locations which have long sunny days and cold nights. Try to avoid windy locations, as that could make it difficult for insects to pollinate the small flowers. Finally, avoid planting strawberries at places which were previously used for growing grass. That is because there will be lots of wire worms that will destroy your plants.
Strawberries like to have space around them. Give them at least a foot of depth in the soil and at least 8 inches between each row of plants.
Strawberries will be hurt by excess of water, they don’t like to be waterlogged. Be very careful about watering them, too much water can actually be worse than too little. Strawberries will rot easily in waterlogged environment, so make sure that your soil drains well.
Great thing about strawberries is that they are very adaptable. You can grow them almost anywhere, in a garden, in a pot or a container. Possibly the best place you can grow strawberries is in raised beds as you have more control over the environment.
One of the greatest dangers to strawberry plants is frost. It is recommended to wait until mid April for planting Summer bearing strawberries. Perpetual bearing strawberries should be planted at the same time.
We all love strawberries because of their bright red colour and their unusual structure with seeds on the outside of the fruit. However, this characteristic of strawberries also attracts birds. Therefore you should protect the plants by placing wire nettings over them when the fruits start to form.
I hope you will harvest a great deal of fresh, delicious strawberries this summer and that you will enjoy growing strawberries. It is something that I really recommend you to try.
