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Tips On Planting Strawberries

The best season of planting strawberries is in winter if you live in cold areas (USA zone1-5).If you are in warmer areas, you can plant strawberries in the fall. Of course you can plant strawberries at any time of the year if you are going to plant it inside. Make sure the soil is dry enough, well drained and with a pH from 5.8 to 6.2 is ideal.

Don’t plant on where you have grown tomatoes, peppers, potatoes or eggplants. These plants can harbor verticillium wilt which would devastate strawberries plants.

Choose a cloudy and cool day to plant your strawberries. Remove all damaged roots and trim long roots to 4 to 5 inches. Set the strawberry plant in the soil so that the soil is just covering the tops of the roots. Do not cover the crown. Amend soil with 1-2 inches of organic matter like compost or well- rotted manure After four or five weeks, the plants will produce runners and new daughter plants.

Fertilize your strawberries plants at least once a month. And when it has begun flowering, fertilize it once 10 days until it is harvested. Potassium-rich fertilizers like tomato feed are preferred.

Strawberries plants need at least six hours of sunlight a day to grow harvestable crop. Make sure all parts of the plants get enough sunlight.

Strawberries are prone to both red spider mites and aphids. Use an appropriate insecticide to eliminate them. Strawberries can also develop powdery mildew. If your strawberry plant has purple spots on the top surface of its leaves and white fungus on the bottom side, it has developed powdery fungus and needs to be treated with a fungicide.

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