Gardening Tips & Tricks : How to Grow Strawberries in a Container

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Growing strawberries in a container is a great way to keep them away from predators, and growing them in groups of at least three will help them grow into a healthy bunch. Cover the roots and leave the plant exposed when growing strawberries in a container with plant tips from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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you have a beautiful voice!

Nitrogen stimulate leaf growth...potassium stimulate flowers and fruit.......if you grow in pots you dont need straw.....its best to remove fruit in first year as the second year will be more productive.......they can be good for 3 to 4 years and then tend to run out of steam........I add organics around the edge of the pot in spring and then high potassium when fruiting.......same for tomatoes.....one last thing...dont feed when fruit are ripening and try not to wet the fruit at this time also......Hope this all helps.

While strawberries are initially growing ....a fert with good nitrogen will boost growth and establish the plant but when it come to fruiting ...look for a flower and fruit booster.......I dont know if you get Yates flower and fruit where you are but the key is high potassium and the Nitrogen is lowered at that time.......If you feed with this(liquid feed every 2 weeks)....you will get lots of fruit that are bigger and taste better .....I have 30 plants in pots(seperate) but you have inspired me to plant them together in a big pot.....I will add composted chicken poo(added underneath the roots...so they can grow into it and search for it) that should produce.

How big of a pot would be best for three strawberry plants?

excellent tips !!

Planting your own strawberries is an immense idea after all. It is another easiest and prettiest way to grow fruit in a container. You've got an impressive video.

hello, im growing or trying to grow pineberries and the little seedlings the leaves will wilt and die and itll only have one leaf at a time can you pu pu pu please help me :D

I planted some strawberries in two large pots, one larger, the other smaller, so that it looks like a fountain. That was two years ago. The first year they didn't do that well, but this year they are producing quite a bit. This is a nice video on planting strawberries. The only thing I would add is to remove any berries so that the plant can concentrate on building a healthy root system.

Would they survive a St.Louis La Ninia winter?

Following the medical addage of "first do no harm", I would defer to your suggestion and hold off and see how the plants do next year. Could be that the manure could be sufficient to carry the plants through another season. After replanting your runners with some added compost (worm compost being superior) :), I think that give them a good start with only a very small percentage of nitrogen.

@WormComposter Thanks. Are you suggesting that I apply the mature compost next spring, that this will fix the problem? It's been suggested too that I just leave the plants alone, don't fertilize OR water and they'll respond to the stress by producing fruit to propagate themselves to a more favourable location. As is, the location is perfect so they propagate by sending out runners. Make sense?

@hopeso - usually the problem is too much nitrogen. A mature compost would be a better solution.

I had a row of strawberries along the south facing fence that would yield about three or four handfuls of berries, not a lot. In the fall, I transplanted them all into three rows, 2 ft apart, about 10 ft. long. I added some sheep manure on top of the soil and this year, all the plants are thriving with huge leaves and multiple runners, it's all growing like a weed. But, very few strawberries. I kept them well watered and we've had a very, warm, sunny summer. What did I do wrong ?

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thank you so much for this.. great info.. I will try to plant strawberries next time..

What about Planting a Strawberry Tree Fruit Tree?

Wish my strawberry plants were growing...I purchased around 10 of them, and I'm left with one and it only grew 1 strawberry that the birds got, the other plants have roots, but they have all dried up...no runner either....can anyone give me advice.

My Strawberry plants are also HUGE this year, it's awesome! This is the first year and no berries, next year probably. I have 3 runners off of every plant, that is also AWESOME! I'm going t o start another bed in the fall:)

Does it matter what kind of container you grow them in.?