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The answer is YES. You can easily grow strawberries at home.
Ways to grow strawberries in your garden
- Start strawberry plants from seeds.
- Plant seedlings
- Take cuttings (runners) from old strawberry plants
- Use a fresh strawberry – slice and sow it after drying a bit
Can you grow strawberry plants in small pots?
YES. You can. In-fact, you can use wide pots that are not too deep and they are perfect for growing strawberries in balcony gardens. A depth of 4″-6″ works well. I prefer growing strawberries in pots since I can control watering, mulching and preventing them from rotting due to touching the soil.
HOW TO PLANT STRAWBERRIES – STEP BY STEP
- Remove plants from packets and space them
- Place them at-least 1 feet apart in ground; if you are growing in pots then only one plant per pot
- Make a deep V shape in the soil and place the plant gently.
- Make sure the crown is not inside the soil otherwise the plant will rot. The crown is where the leaves sprout from.
- Water it once and check that it should drain away slowly, standing water will kill the strawberry plants.
- Strawberries propagate by runners, producing new plants when given enough time & space. Runners are shoots that come out the main plant and form roots few inches away from it.
- Give them at-least 2 months to start bearing fruits. White flowers will spear first followed by green then red juicy strawberries.
- When u see green strawberries, mulch the soil with newspaper, husk, coconut fibre – basically anything to keep the fruit away from soil; otherwise it can rot
How to prevent Strawberries from spoiling on touching soil?
As the fruit develops, it tends to fall onto the soil and rots from the bottom. So it is very important to protect them. I have a simple organic mulch idea – COCONUT HUSK. Just collect the husk from brown coconuts and mulch the plants. You can keep adding more as the plants grow. It protects the fruit as it grows and later on you can simply turn it into the soil – organic, cheap & easy!
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