I like strawberries. I like them fresh, I like the small wild ones, as well as I love, love, like them in freezer jam! choosing fresh strawberries is one of my all-time much-loved summertime highlights, so I try to do it each year.
I likewise like old-fashioned strawberry pots, to ensure that you can pick berries to your heart’s material at home. Recently, I tried my hand at planting a strawberry pot of my extremely own.
It all starts with the plants. These PC Gigantico strawberry plants are a bit bigger than usual, so my potted garden is off to a fantastic head start.
Next, you’ve got to get a pot! I like the look of terracotta, however you can get them glazed, too. this is from Lowe’s as well as expense less than $15!
Next, you want to add a bit additional drainage. You can utilize a damaged pot, pieces of Styrofoam, or in this situation a damaged platter (sob) to produce bit air pockets at the bottom of your planter. This way, excess water has somewhere to go as well as doesn’t drown your plants.
On to the soil. You need to utilize potting soil. garden soil ideal from the ground is as well dense as well as normally has as well much clay in it for pots. It gets difficult as well as dries out when in a flower pot. Potting soil is deliberately light as well as airy, to keep plants delighted as well as their roots growing easily. This bag expense $4.
To plant the pot, just add sufficient soil to get you to your very first hole. then pop in a strawberry plant as well as add a lot more soil. when you get to the next hole, add one more plant as well as so on. provide the whole pot a great long drink of water as well as truly get all the soil moist. Excess soil will most likely leak out of the holes for a while up until the roots get well established as well as hold everything together better.
And right here it is! The best tiny strawberry patch ideal on your own back step. provide the berries great deals of light as well as you’ll have fruit to snack on throughout June as well as July. Why not provide it a try?
Click right here for some tasty recipes with strawberries.
For a lot more potting tips, search our Container gardens section.
Photo credits:
Michael Penney