If you like to eat strawberries, or if you have small children at home, you can grow some potted strawberries, and pick a few when you want to eat them, it's a wonderful feeling to do it yourself and enjoy the fun of harvesting. Today we are going to introduce some potted strawberries in some details and skills of planting.
When you get a strawberry seedling, if it's a hole tray seedling, or directly on the root with soil, basically it's easy to slow down, first of all, how to raise strawberry seedlings.
To plant a good potted strawberry key steps
1, ready to plant potted strawberry pots
That is to prepare pots and potting soil, this step is very, very important, related to the back of the success or not to slow down the seedling, related to the back of the success or not to blossom, and enjoy the picking. bear fruit and enjoy the pleasure of picking strawberries.
Potting strawberries in pots, it is recommended that newcomers do not use large pots, because large pots are not good at controlling watering, although strawberries like moist soil environment, but the pots are large, but also not conducive to the beginning of the seedling, and is not conducive to its growth of new roots. A strawberry planted in a one-gallon pot is enough, if the root system grows too crazy later, we can just transfer the soil with roots to a one and a half gallon pot.
2, planting pots of strawberry soil
Planting pots of strawberry soil, is the most important, the soil is not good, the strawberry seedlings refused to grow, and will even appear a variety of unexpected problems. Prepared soil, can be garden soil with a little coarse sand with some organic fertilizer, a little more luxurious, can be rotting leaf soil or peat soil, add some coconut soil, and then add perlite.
This way the soil is more fertile and breathable, so the strawberry's root system will grow well. The kind of crusty potting soil, its root system can not take root, the root system is not good, the leaves are not good growth, natural flowering less fruit is also less.
3, planting pots of strawberry fertilizer
Planting strawberry fertilizer, is also very important, then raise pots of strawberries with what fertilizer? You can add some rotted chicken manure fertilizer, sheep manure fertilizer, bone meal, etc., but do not add more, so as not to burn the roots, fertilizer, not only burn the roots, the leaves will also be a piece of the burned, withered, looks quite disturbing. So the fertilizer should not be too large, the back of the success of the slow seedling, began to grow leaves, a month later, you can start pouring diluted liquid fertilizer.
Second is the light, because the strawberry growing season in the fall and winter, in the spring, the most need is the sun, more sun, pests and bacteria will be less, strawberry seedlings will grow strong, grow strong their own blossom more results more.