Growing Strawberries in Containers 🍓
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2022
- Juicy and sweet, hard to beat! Everybody loves strawberries, but not everyone has the space to grow them in raised beds. Not to worry! Strawberries can grow very well in containers, and there are many ingenious ways to do this to maximise space. Ben also explains the different types of strawberries and when they crop, so you can be picking yummy berries all summer long! Pass the Martini...! 🍓
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I heard of a grandma who painted some small stones bright red. She placed the stones among her berry plants well before they fruited. The birds learned that the bright red "fruits" were not worth the trouble and never bothered the real strawberries once they arrived. Maybe this idea will keep our birds at the feeders and off the berries!
I've heard of this and would love to try it - seems like a great idea!
I'm definitely going to try this, as I already have my paints out!
I put my strawberry plant in a LG ferret cage because of the birds
That’s a good idea
We tried it, it worked
I had birds eating every strawberry before they could even ripen but I didn't want to bother with the hassle of netting. So I tucked my strawberry container amongst my aromatic herb containers. (Dill, basil, oregano, cilantro, chives, and mint) Seems to have properly confused my feathered thieves because I haven't had a single strawberry nibbled on in a over a month.
Yeah thise little buggers do that. worst thing is they take 1 bite and move on to the next...
Smart work camouflaging them - great idea. :-)
you can also paint some rocks red and place them near your strawberry plants earlier in the season. birds will learn that strawberries are hard and inedible and then have no interest in the actual berries when they appear.
Good tip!!!
I've had mixed success on keeping sources of water around so birds don't use fruits to literally wet their beaks. It makes a lot of sense that when it is dry, they will take a single bite just to get some moisture
I bought a strawberry plant that was dying. Cost me 50p I planted it in a pot to see what would happen. Iv had the plant about 5 years now and each year it has given me lots of yummy strawberries
That's wonderful to hear!
@@GrowVegwould love a video of Pineberry's White strawberrys
I read they are the worst food of all for retaining pesticides. So organic is the only way or make your own.
This was my first year trying my hand at strawberries and it went terribly. I couldn't get the seeds to germinate so I bought six plants at the shop.
Four plants died and the surviving two produced a grand total of four strawberries of which the birds spared me just one.
It was a delicious strawberry, I named it Wilson. ✋️
don't lose hope buddy ... I had a similar experience last year with tomatoes, I got only one tomato, which I did not eat instead I picked its seeds :D .
Where I live it is quit cold .. and last summer was extra cold and shady ... I am hoping this year to get better results. The plants look promising at the moment 🤞🏻
Do not grow from seed if you want berries that year it takes a long time to grow strawberries from seeds. idealy also most seeds are old. And going by the berries in my garden they want to be just ontop of soil which makes me believe they are light germinators which are a pain in the ass to begin with as you need to keep it damp at all time.
If you want the best results go with freezert plants. these are bare plants with just root systems. you can just dig them in and within 8 weeks they produce fully like a mature plant. i planted 100 the first year and they gave me 35 kg (75 pounds) the first year and from there you can just split them as they grow like weeds. and do remove stems and with year long fruiters like ostara cut away the first 2 flower stems. Painfull but the plant needs that time to strengthen same after winter ne next year.
@@ashajjar I had zero tomaties last year. I had rot and in just a week i lost everything all 25 plants gone. things happen sadly.
Haha Wilson, that's awesome! It does take ages for strawberry seeds to germinate. I grew some from seed once and it took weeks before they sprouted, so I decided that's too much faff for me and bought plants after that. I'm sorry yours died and that the birds ate most of the berries!
@@pino_de_vogel can I ask, I bought bare root strawberry plants this year and they've done really well - do you know how old are the plants, the root systems are really well developed - are they old enough to set runners, or should I cut off the runners this year?
Pine needles also make a great mulch for strawberries. They seem to really like it.
Thank you!!! I have lots of those in my backyard...
I put a coffee filter over the drain hole to keep soil in the pot..works for me...I can't wait for spring 🙂
Great idea Shirley! :-)
I had alpine strawberries growing in deep shade under trees and what a treat! They came back every year and not only did they attract the birds but the birds took care of any insects in the garden too!
What a fantastic win-win scenario Sherri! :-)
This is absolutely the best video for growing strawberries, I have found, much good information here. ❤ Thank you for posting it. I just started planting strawberries a few weeks ago in containers and really enjoying it so far. North Carolina girl..
So pleased you’re enjoying the process. Hope you get a super harvest. 😀
Great feature on strawberries! We inherited a lot of old plants, which weren’t very productive, and we only got a solitary bowl out of them last year. I got some tiny plant pots, put in some compost, and just tucked in a runner into each one. Once the runners had rooted in the pots I cut off the plant umbilical cord and replanted the baby plants into the original bed, now cleared of the old plants. I then spread Strulch over the bed. We ended up with 50 new plants for free this way. We have had a very productive season this time with something like 10kg of strawberries resulting in 14 jars of jam and a lot of desserts. I’m planning to repeat this propagation process every three years so my plants are always quite young. Top tip: If you have a bread machine, see if it has a jam setting as it can save a lot of burnt pans. You might need to run the setting 2 or even 3 times to get the perfect consistency, maybe adding a little pectin, but if you’re busy, this is a real boon.
Great tip - and well done on propagating so many new plants from runners. This is my mission for this summer - bulk out my strawberries and create a dedicated strawberry bed.
Yes Ben , you’re right , “the best things in life aren’t complicated” Cheers !
Also I may have mentioned this before, but one of the perks of working in a university for me is that I get access to all the plant science research papers I have time to read, even though I am not a plant scientist! There was a very good study into how to increase strawberry yield and it found planting borage near the strawberries helped pollination a lot, leading to better cropping. What the plant scientists neglected to add is that this is also handy for making the subsequent Pimms ;.)
Haha - maybe the thought had crossed their minds though. The perfect duo in the perfect Pimms! :)
What is Pimm?
@@CC-lv1ox Pimms is a cocktail drink and borage is a good option for a garnish.
Oh my memories. The alpine strawberries used to be grow all over these Mtns when I was a child. We called them wild berries. Daddy would find us a big patch, and we all went, 5 of us, to pick for the winter’s jam. 1 gallon containers. As the youngest I remember having a measuring cup having to pick it full. We all had to fill our containers to Mother’s satisfaction. Being reminded that the jam will taste better on our biscuits (scones to you )than a snowball, lol. These days you hardly ever see them, and if you do they are very tiny. But I grow my own “tame” ones.
Thanks for the advice
That's a wonderful memory to have Tonie. I bet that jam was totally unrivalled.
Which region it is and how many years ago? Maybe the warming affects how much of them grow now?
In an attempt to prioritize time, as well as letting nature do it's thing, I mow my yard less often. Doing so presented a large area of ground cover berries, which kept my two-year-old granddaughter very busy. By the end of her daily interest in harvesting and eating ripened berries, her hands, arms, hair, and smiling face were strawberry red. Who would imagine doing less work would produce such joy.
Good stuff, and thank you!
What a lovely vision! :-)
Such a helpful video, thank you! I always appreciate that you use seasons for reference rather than specific months for those of us in a different hemisphere. 🙂🇦🇺
That's why we do it! :-)
I have wild strawberries growing on mountain scree in Mid Wales. They have spread into the cracks of my terrace providing more fruit for free. This year I'm harvesting 600g of fruit every two days.
Oh wow - that's an incredible result from wild strawberries - how lucky and delicious. :-)
I'm starting my first garden this year. I'm trying to learn so much, thank you.
How is it going?
Hello All, We are in Australia where the summers are very hot, even in Melbourne, for a long time I have been lining my terracotta pots with bark from a paper bark tree, but I think you could use a thin flexible bark from any tree. The bark slowly breaks down over years, but in the meantime insulates the roots and slows water evaporation and stops the root ball in the pot from drying out. When you want to re-pot, removing the roots from the pot is easier as the bark helps the root mass and soil just slide out. It is organic and cheap, I just pull some of the excess bark off the tree, and the paper bark tree is generous and gives me plenty without being harmed in any way. Cheers, Bron
What a great idea Bronwyn, thanks for sharing. :-)
Really appreciate this! I have quite a long balcony that gets lots of sun from May onwards and I've been wanting to grow strawberries for ever. This has given lots of great advice and I'm excited to get planting once I can find the plants in my local garden shop.
Thank you so much for your strawberry video ! 🍓 I look forward to part two later on this Summer! I’m needing to learn what to do with the runners , so this will be very helpful !
Gift that keeps on giving as long as you figure out how to manage baby plants and are willing to pull out older ones when they stop producing.
If you're in Australia or a hotter, drier climate remember to keep up the watering! Also if you're considering using netting on any fruit trees or vertical growing areas, make sure to use small aperture netting, small enough that you can't stick a finger through it as the larger stuff is deadly to fruit bats.
Great advice, thanks for sharing. :-)
@bina nocht Yes they are! However they can get their limbs tangled up in the large aperture netting trying to climb it and it cuts off the blood supply to their limbs rapidly, particularly if it constricts their wing membrane. Also they have very high hydration needs so when they get tangled and can't escape they often die rapidly of kidney failure. The outcomes for fruit bats that have been rescued off netting is pretty bad which is why the small aperture netting is a great alternative as they have a much harder time getting tangled in it.
Thank you. I'm looking forward to the season!
Very comprehensive video. Thanks so much for your thoughtful content
I have grown strawberries for a few years, and I have still learned some great tips from your video Ben. Thanks for making and sharing and your strawberry harvest is making my mouth water. Yum!
You're very welcome Dawn - thanks so much for watching.
Thank you for the tip about the homemade strawberry tower. I will do it this summer. I have strawberries called corona😄they fruit once during the summer and are super sweet. I also have wild strawberries. I have planted strawberries around bushes and trees in large potting.
I planted strawberries and all the birds in my hood came. Maybe I planted birds.
Sorry to hear that - how annoying for you!
Just planted some this weekend using a felt strawberry bag! Can't wait for the fruits! Also keen to learn how to preserve the plant for next year. Looking forward to the next video :)
Can we over winter the container strawberries? Wisconsin...but I do have an unheated shed?
It depends on the variety, but I know I've seen strawberry plants that survived -40 temperatures. If in doubt, mulch them with dried grasses or shredded paper. You could put cardboard "toppers" over to help insulate.
Thanks for mentioning mulch or straw. I will do that now.
I sure wish I had watched this back in July. LOL Super info and I will use it from now on.
Hi Ben. This is my first year gardening and I am loving your channel love❤ I saved some strawberry plants from the b&q clearance aisle and put them in containers and they have already given me some fruit. Happy days x
Happy days indeed Linda! Thanks for watching :-)
Brilliant as always. I've not grown strawberries for years, I'm going to try this year ....
I have new raised beds where I've planted Quinalt and Ozark Beauty strawberries. Next summer I hope to put some in my Greenstalk planter on the patio. Thanks for the tips. USA
Useful tips to try. Thank you.
Have a lifetime supply of various pots. Thanks for the idea of a homemade tower!
Super useful to know about waiting until the following year to make the most of the runners. I'll be getting 5 Aromel strawberry plants and 5 Norfolk Nectar this year, I've decided on a nice sunny spot in the middle of the garden and am hoping for the best!
I'm sure they'll thrive in a sunny spot. :-)
Thank you
You are AMAZING! I can see why you are a Master Gardener.
Thank you for your tip on how to plant in a pot
Thanks for the info, I am planning on planting strawberries this spring.
Thanks for some great, simple tips.
Thanks so much, your videos are so great for beginners and the tips such as if you're not able to water whilst away etc are brilliant thinking
Thanks for those kind words Andy, it's appreciated.
A lot of good information. Thank you.
Thank you . I do have the ground cover strawberries, the small ones which I have never eaten. I am going to do a tower as I have containers plus some strawberry plants. Thank you for an informative video. As always very helpful
Thanks Ben, another excellent video. Catching up on viewing while the daylight hours are short. I grow Elsanta which has an excellent flavour and is very productive both in a polytunnel and outside (netted). I've been growing it for about 10 years, taking runners and starting a new bed after 2 years giving the runners a year to bed in before clearing the original bed.
Well done on keeping your plants going for so long using the runners - that's a very smart move. :-)
Very informative thank you!!!
You just inspire me to grow strawberries, good info & tips thank you
Epic stuff, black pepper with strawberries..amazing
Lovely ideas and great tips as always! We had a volunteer strawberry and have merit out going on the greenhouse a couple of years now. I also decided to try some white alpine strawberries and they are tiny but have a delicate sweet flavor
I bet those white alpine strawberries are totally delicious. :-)
I absolutely adore your videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
--gardener in Minnesota, USA
And thank you for watching - really appreciate your support. :-)
thank you so much, very good explanation "on how to grow strawberiies on the pot", i will try that I wish to find good one that stays longer..thank you and see you..for my feed back after i do grow my own.❤
My newborn daughter will thank you as we just planted a few strawberries in the garden. Love from California.
That's fantastic - great job. How lovely to have a newborn daughter - many congratulations! :-)
Thank you : )
Everbearing and June berries. All my Gardening are in raised beads. This video helped !
This is just the video that i needed and came at the perfect time! Thanks Ben! :)
Great stuff Jackie, thanks for watching. :-)
I’m so glad I watched this video before trying to plant strawberries I didn’t know they needed straw or hay
They don't really need the straw or hay - it just helps to keep the berries cleaner.
Howdy Ben!👋 I plan on adding strawberries to our garden next year. Someone suggested the Alpine ones. After your tutorial I might do two kinds...the Alpine for garden snacking and the June bearing ones for jam.😀
Thanks for the knowledge!💕
Sounds like a great idea Valorie. The alpine ones pretty much look after themselves.
Bought some strawberry plants and transplanted recently. I can't wait for the harvest as strawberry can be quite dear here in New Zealand
Fabulous thank you
This is my first year planting strawberries plants. Just learned from you my Sweet Ann variety are day neutral. Excited to see the fruit next year. Saludos!- Los Angeles
Thanks for another informative video.
Thank😢
This is a great video and very informative.I am in phoenix Az I grow Gurney Whopper and Ozark Beauty it took me years to learn how to grow strawberries here but now I am trying new kinds next season
Several years ago I planted up a metre square raised bed with some strawberry plants. I knew nothing about growing fruit but I had beginner’s luck because I had bowlfuls and bowlfuls of strawberries that summer. Years later and I’m going to do it all again. The raised bed is in, the compost and soil are in, the barefoot strawberries arrived in the post and are now in! Hopefully, after settling in over this coming winter, they will give me lots of berries next summer and autumn 🥰
I hope your new strawberry bed settles in beautifully and you get another bumper crop of berries next season. :-)
Hi Ben,we have had our allotment for 15 years ish & we can tell you the best strawberries we have found are Marshalls Marshmellow ,sweet juicy and quite large fruit,we have set runners and our fellow plot holders who also agree,next year we will try potting some for an early crop,they also make great jam,the first fruit are usually 2nd week in June,we still have a few on now but soon we will collect new plants for a new bed next year although 2 year plants are stronger,you can’t rush gardening it takes time,good luck & happy gardening.
I've tried Marshmallow in the past and it is definitely delicious - good choice. :-)
Excellent idea you mentioned in this video ♥️🥰 make a tower so it won’t dry quickly cuz I have those strawberries pot and they don’t live longer so I will make them top on another pot so it won’t dry during summer 👩🌾🥰👍👍 thank you again!
Wonderfull info thanksdear
Great video really enjoyed it. I have some in hanging baskets and they have done incredibly well.
Gloria a ti,señor,por todo/ Viva Christo Rey
I have been growing strawberries for years and grow all the varieties. This growing season I have purchased two Green Stalks growing towers to fill up with strawberries, I am excited to get started but I live in Western Montana with my last frost date in mid-May however strawberries plants don't mind some frost, but snow would not be good for them. Thanks for sharing your beautiful berries with us.
You're welcome. I'm sure your towers will look stunning with the strawberries in.
Berry good sir! And thanks for the alternative thoughts for veganic gardeners 👍
Nice one Gawain! 🙌😀
I’ve had strawberries do well in hanging baskets too.
Thank you for the lesson on growing strawberries. Live on Hatteras Island (North Carolina - USA) and have never grown them. Want to give it a try this season. Appreciate your expertise.
Hope they grow well for you. You live in a very interesting place - would love to visit the Outer Banks some day. :-)
Great job on this beautiful video of strawberry 🍓
Thanks!
Wow . Super
strawberries are my very favorite
I'm planting some bare root strawberry and raspberry plants tomorrow. Very informative video. Thanks! 👍
Great to be getting some new fruits in. Hope they grow away well for you. :-)
Thanks for sharing all of this information. I didn't know that is why they were called strawberries. I will add some pinestraw to ours. God bless!
Thanks for watching. :-)
Hi, Ben. I love homegrown strawberries😋
Yum! :-)
I have all ever bearing berries...I think the variety is one of the most popular. I grow in containers now but am thinking of devoting a section of my raised beds this year. Still learning about berries but loving the harvest so far.
Definitely worth devoting some of your raised beds area if you can. :-)
I've never tried pepper on a fresh berry. Going to give it a go soon my first berry is almost ready to pick. 😊
Brilliant thank you nice and easy to understand
Thank you, Ben. I’m planning to plant up strawberries in hanging pots in our polytunnel. This is partly to try to deter our Blackbird strawberry thieves. And partly because, even with a straw-based mulch we have issues with mould on our fruit. So your video has been really useful. It confirms that I am doing basic things right, but has also given me tips for ensuring the plants grow healthy and strong. I’m using Marshmello for the pots, following the advice of a local polytunneler. Here goes!
Great stuff Sarah. I've heard only great things about Marshmello, so I think you've chosen well there.
what is marshmello?
Great video. I might dig up my strawberries in the polytunnel and get the space for more carrot
Great video, thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
You're welcome Christine, thanks for watching. :-)
Strawberries and pumpkins are the most fun things to grow with kids!
Absolutely!
Great info thank you. Mine are Seascape
Good presentation
Ha, I just planted 50 strawberry plants in some meters of gutters, fixed on the fence of my kitchen garden! It makes me so happy!!
Great job! :-)
3gen farmer from Iceland with disability that had to move to the capital city. I find you're videos informative and insightful a long time ago my farm had plant research by my grade grand parents, then animals by grandmothers older brother and now we have still have animals by my mothers disabled little brother.
Thanks for your kind comment. Your farm sounds like it was wonderful. :-)
I like Fort Laramie plants ❤
Will try the black pepper..!!😊
Thanks for the tips in the video! I will be trying to grow strawberries in Florida this fall/winter (summer is too hot for them here, and the plants are usually treated as annuals.). With any luck, we'll have some beautiful berries for the holiday season!
Hope you get a superb crop in time. :-)
I have a hanging upside down garden in my chook coop. Strawberries are prefect for it! The berries hang down, no dirt for them to sit and rot on, and easy to pick. I have some herbs growing in the top too. Considering trying chives in the top to deter bugs
Awesome video
Just hope the squirrels don’t steel all my strawberries 😂
Fingers crossed they don't notice them! :-)
Squirrels always steel my berries and I have cages on them. I've tried everything except building a green house.
Air gun works great.
Fantastic video!
Thank you very much!:-)
I had about 40 strawberry plants in containers about 5 years ago… until they all succumbed to the dreaded vine weevil. 😟 I was really upset. This year my collection has grown to about 35 and I’m really pleased to report I’ve grown another 30 from seed this year. 🍓🙂They are all big now so I’m looking forward to them fruiting next year. 🍓🍓🍓 They are all in a new huge 3ft high raised bed and I’m all ready to buy nematodes again if I need to. 😊
Well done on raising them from seed and building up your collection again. Those pesky vine weevils!
Who else is craving strawberries now?
I want to grow june bearing strawberries and I found the strawberry tower interesting and useful, I really want to try that one.
I'm growing strawberries as well and I've got a hand full from two of my plants I'm also growing peas,cucumbers,carrots,brokoli,lettuce, tomato's, radishes and sunflowers. There all growing very well :). Also your videos have helped me sooooo much and I just wanted to say thank you.
That's so lovely to hear, thank you. You're growing some super stuff there. :-)
this is my first year in the new house and i can finally grow strawberries! i will be planting some everbearing and some junebearing. because while i do want to make some chips or freeze them, i mostly eat them fresh so a few over the long haul sounded better.
IN addition i got seeds for alpine strawberries, and i will be planting them all over where we have a bit of shade
Sounds like you'll have a real abundance of strawberries Kirsten. :-)