Growing Strawberries

Sowing Strawberries on your property

A well designed strawberry patch can provide years of delight as well as succulent berries. Having them inside of a raised bed, allows you to tend the fruits and pluck the fruits. This also overcomes any difficulty with poor soil as well as , drainage. Here is advice to construct your very own raised strawberry garden.

Many of my siblings have raised strawberry beds. One implemented garden timbers and the other used bare cement sections to build up the raised planting space.

Strawberry Gardening Location

To start with consider positioning of the garden. A adequately drained section is the ideal. Soggy topsoil can cause the crops to rot. Part shade is feasible, although not full shade. Strawberries have to have a fair level of sun.

For the strawberry area, I picked the corner section of the garden where the back and side fence meet. Since the dirt was difficult having a cover of grass, I made a decision to underlay the elevated bed with a boundary of plastic material. The dark plastic helps to keep the grass from developing in to the garden soil above.

Setting up the Ground

Bring in good quality top soil and set it over the recycled plastic. Just about all garden suppliers as well as Wal-Mart offer top soil in bags or could tell you where you might get it by the truck load. Be sure you fill up the dirt not less than even with the top of the railroad ties. It will allow for settling following the first rainfall.

If one makes your very own rich compost this is actually the best of all.

To the dirt I added a forty lb container of cow manure. Rabbit manure is actually better yet and easily transported via a nearby rabbit grower. Furthermore the rabbit manure usually can be got for a modest price if you complete your own gathering, bagging, and also hauling. An added benifit of the rabbit manure is actually the simple fact there should be tiny or perhaps no weed seeds and it's high in nitrogen. If you know someone with a pet rabbit, you're in luck. If you do not know any individual, inquire around or get in touch with the region extension office or 4-H office.

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