How To Plant Strawberries

We're out here today just to demonstrate how to plant strawberries. Now, strawberries can be grown in the ground, or they can be grown in pots and containers and even in hanging baskets. There are many different varieties of strawberries, from your big juicy succulent strawberries, to perpetual strawberries, and also little tiny Alpine strawberries that are really, really sweet and really tasty.

We're going to grow them today here in between blueberries. Strawberries need to be grown in a nice rich soil with lots of organic matter, lots of well-rotted manure, and they also need to be grown in ground where strawberries haven't been grown before, or not for at least three years, anyway. So what you need to do is you need to dig your little hole, and this is fantastic compost, it's been really, really well-enriched, and you need to make sure that you don't plant any deeper than the soil level is already.

It's also an idea to plant in a mound, so that the rainwater runs off. So, you can bank up the plant, firm it in slightly and then go along a few centimeters, dig your next hole. Just make sure you loosen off the earth down there, just to allow the roots to spread out once you've planted the strawberry plant.

When you take the plant out of the pot, just put your fingers across the top, give the pot a little squeeze, because you don't want to damage those delicate roots and there, you can see all these lovely white roots that are just ready to romp away. Pop the strawberry in, back fill, nice and gently, firm in and also make sure that you label your row, because you want to know which variety of strawberries you've grown and where. And that's how you plant strawberries. .