Talkback: How to grow early strawberries
I pot mine up every year but don't seem to get many strawberries of them. I put them out in the day but bring them in for the night. Would you suggest I keep them in the greenhouse all the time? Last year I put them in a hanging bag but didn't get much fruit so this year I will try your suggestion of a hanging basket and see if it's any better.
Lynn from Pinxton, Nottingham
Lynn from Pinxton, Nottingham
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thanks tony
Today I have brought in 2 plants from the garden into the conservatory. Fingers crossed that I'll have early strawberries.
point, more strawberries!.
To get an abundance of fruit you need to feed strawberries with high potash...don't know whether it will work at this time of year...I usually do it in September, then just use organic strawberry feed through the summer. Get loads usually, and have grown in old washing up bowls strung up in trees and in the greenhouse, and strawberry tubs and strangely enough the ones that grow between the slabs on the patio are generally the best...the grandchildren walk on the plants and run their tractors and cars into them, but still they persist...they are like weeds. I have to put fleece around them which I peg down with old fashioned hair pins, because Mrs. Blackbirds insists I was growing them for her, along with cherries. I even put a full sized effigy of a hawk dangling from a tree close by, but that didn't work to deter her either!