Planting Bare Root Strawberries Perfectly Every Time!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Today we're going over my preferred method for planting bare root strawberries, so if strawberries are your jam (HA!), stick around!
I'll cover what you're looking for when it comes to crowns, and all the steps I can think of to help set you up for success with these beautiful berries.
I got my starts from Pense Nursery (they're in Arkansas, so if you can find some closer, by all means please do!) www.penseberry...
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(there is no extra V in there like I said out loud- I had a brain fart!!!)
Happy gardening!!! :)
Awesome idea using cutaway pot to show us the roots- Thank you, Veronica!
Thanks! I thought it was pretty clever 🙂
3 years old but exactly what I needed. Recent disabled and had to find a new hobby to do at home and its strawberries lol. Thanks for the info!
I found a variety called Summer Breeze Rose, has red and pink flowers with tons of super sweet berries. Its a fairly new variety but awesome. Found it at Calloways nursery in Texas. It was even organic. It was $14.99 for a six pack of pint sized starts that were very healthy. Already making berries and now that Ive planted them in other places, they have spread and are THRIVING.
Organie Summer Breeze Rose is a great variety!
Sounds exciting! I’ll have to let my dad know to keep an eye out for them in Texas - he usually plants some strawberries in spring every year
I have never done this before, and I'm so glad I looked up information and found your video. Thank you for this video.
What a great video. One of the best I’ve seen for starting bareroot strawberries. Thanks!
This video is amazing! Clever cross-section idea. And so thorough: every step clearly explained before I even thought of the question. Though my bare root plants are managing to push new leaves, imagine how much better they would do if I watched you before!
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I love your tips and info on gardening! This is exactly what I needed!! Thank you!!
Great demonstration! This is my first year planting strawberries in containers! Hoping for a bountiful harvest! Thanks for your helpful video!
Good luck!!! 🍀
"Strawberry 🍓 island" love this video! You have a Calm JOYFUL, endearing heart ❤️ Well-presented and so informative 👍
Thank you!
Thank you!!! I haven't had the best results with berries and I now see why. Great video....very clear and informative.
Perfect timing! I just got a package of bare root strawberries this week. Thank you Veronica!
Yay! Hope they're doing well for you!
Yes they are, thank you!
BEST DEMO EVER! Thank you for sharing your process with us!
How does this not have a million views. This is the best bare root video. Thank you!! Is it better to use straw or mulch for strawberries? I've seen some people use straw.
Thank you! I don't have a preference and tend to use whatever I have on hand, though straw might hold less moisture against the crowns if you overhead water and are concerned with rot.
70% soil + 30% sand is a great medium I heard of.
I wish I saw this last year! I will be following your instructions this afternoon for the new crowns that I just ordered. Thank you for such a great instructional video with closeups. I am now a subscriber!!!
Thank you!!
Me too!
Thank you 🍓
Excellent informative video. Thank you!
I really like your videos and illustration!! Ty so much 🎉
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Hi Veronica, thanks for making this elaborate video on planting bareroot strawberries. I am about to receive a batch of pineberry bareroots. The previous batch did not survive. Thought I'd look up a CZcams tutorial and stumbled upon your video. I did just about everything you did, even the mounds. Perhaps I should use John Innes n°.3 compost, this time, with a little bit of horticultural sand mixed in it? Last time, I used peat based compost. I noticed, in your video, the soil you used looked much like John Innes n°.3 compost.
Btw, you are beautiful 🤗. Much like a gorgeous, Scandinavian princess.
God bless...
Did the previous batch grow at all? Sometimes we get bad bare roots, and they're too dry to grow. Your mix didn't sound bad, though if the soil stayed soggy they may have rotted. I definitely recommend using a mycorrhizal dust or granular product on bare root plants - I'm currently playing with gibarellic acid in this space as well, but don't have enough experience yet to recommend amounts for soaking.
@@VeronicaFlores the first batch that I spoke of did not make it at all. I ordered a second one. I cannot afford giberallic acid currently. Had used Vitax Q4 rootmore. Will see how the second batch does. I'll have to wait for the next summer for a harvest. Thanks for following up on my comment. Have a wonderful spring-summer.
This video helped so much. Thank you!
Excellent demonstration! Thank you!
I just started working at a 15 acre greenhouse just growing strawberry plants
Very good video by the way thank you
Spitting image of Ygritte from game of thrones. Enjoy the weather.
I wish you made vídeos more often. I'm growing some strawberries right now from bare roots.
I’ve been going through some real bullshit lately but there are a few good ones in the editing queue, hang tight
I have bare root strawberries to plant. Chandlers to be exact. I also just got my first greenstalk. Im in 7 b past our last frost date and plan to set it up outside in garden. Do i need to grow,strawberry roots inside till they get more leafed out before planting outside in greenstalk and do i fertilize them while they are getting big enough to plant outside? And what do you suggest they need once in gs?. My original plan was to buy young plants and fill in with babies i have from last year but at 4.50 a plant × 30 pockets...soil fertilizer and gs...its just way too much $$$ this was a great demo and that you also showed how to plant them island style in gs saved me!!! Im very happy to find you and look forward to many more demos that show up close and deep tips and techniques that are really important and seem to evade us normally in all the vlogs but attention to detail sunk in with your precise demo and cut of view of pot. A++!
Strawberries can handle some cold but in my experience don't do very well if the GS freezes solid and they're not fully established. I'd definitely plant the roots as soon as you can manage so they can get growing, in like at least 4" pots - I usually mix some Dr. Earth food in with my potting soil to give them a boost, and then may consider putting some in the planting hole as well at time of transplant depending on how good my potting mix is and how healthy/hungry the baby plants look.
Loved your video. Beginner gardener. Planting my strawberry bare roots in a stacked tower. Should I keep the tower inside to establish the plants or is it ok to place it outside in the shade?
If you have a good spot outside in the shade I say do that! Just keep an eye on it for birds and drying out
I thought strawberries were fickle. Always wanted to know why my grandmother planted hers in a pile of soil. Now I know.
They definitely can be! I have a sandy clay sloped spot where I’m at now (and more acidic soil) and they’re very happy with both
Thank you!!
we received our bare root strawberry plants. (Love your wonderful video on how to plant them). but.. when do we plant them? before/after frost date? Thank you soooo much!
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Depends on your location - in Texas and other hot climates we often do it before last frost and then mulch them well
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thank you. we are in Rochester NY
love it...You inspire me
I literally just got mine today (1st time in 54) years doing bare root, just turned 5🥴) started planting as soon as I could sit upright with my Granddaddy and GrandMom! I’ll soak in the morning whilst I’m mixing my soil (+ helpers) then I’ll plant in my pots~garden wouldn’t be suitable right now (still getting rid of 850”+ of snow and too hot/cold) so I’ll plant them, bring them in at night and place outside if weather is suitable. If not I’ll place under grow lights inside during the day. Would that be okay? I read pot 10”-12” wide by at least 8” deep. Yes? No?
Sorry just seeing this! If it’s temporary, they’re fine in most pot sizes
super pretty
I have heard u trim the roots by 1/4 or up to 1/3?
As needed - I don't if the roots look healthy, I do if they're black and necrotic
How do you start the runners coming off of the motherplan?😊
I usually pin them in a small pot of soil with a landscape staple, or into soil nearby if they’re in a big space, and then dig up and cut them away once roots are well-developed.
Great explanation and awesome demonstration! I’m all for strawberry island! I’m going to try some bare root strawberries in small pots until it warms up in the spring, then plant outside. Thinking of trimming some of those roots to fit into my 4” pots. And just a light trim. Those bare roots you showed looked like healthy asparagus. Super long! Does size matter (Veronica, I’m talking about strawberry roots here). Thoughts?
I think both size and overall health/hydration matters a lot - if roots are totally dried out and like dark brown and stringy, it's really hard to rehydrate them sometimes, and will require a lot of energy from the crown to grow more. If they're healthy though, feel free to trim slightly if you really need to for them to fit (or plant them in larger pots if you have the space!) Usually you can get the roots to fit though, even in 4".
My mum ordered those bare roots they been siting in cardboard fir 2/3 days now and most likely they will be put in the soil tomorrow and become they seem to be really dry I wanted to put them in a jar with some water so they could stay alive and be not as thirsty I'm not sure if this is best idea but I think that's the best option for now as I can't put them in our mini fridge and in our house it's like 24 Celsius degrees so quite allot ! They would be in the water for about 13 hours by the time I will probably already do it but I still would like to know if its OK to do in the future when they will be planted next day or in 2 days and you want to make sure they wouldn't die ?! I would probably do the soaked paper one but I think they are quite dry to the point that I'm not sure if that would work that well 🤔 😅
I've honestly left them in water for like 72 hours without any ill effects - I'd make sure that only the roots are submerged (not the crowns or they may rot) and that they're in a spot that's slightly shaded and not crazy hot!
I have got the Dr Earths that is recommended but I need some guidance on how to use it! I assume that it is mixed with water to soak the roots in ? we are trying bare root starts again this year after little success last year. Help please
Yeah I put a spoonful in the jar and give it a stir - it's not an exact science on my end, just trying to give the roots a boost after shipping. Where you get healthy starts is more important IMO.
Thank you for your very useful information. How many years should I keep my strawberry plants for or should I just put them in new soil every couple of years?
I usually go 2-3, and try to propagate runners around year 3-4.
@@VeronicaFlores Thank you so much for a rapid reply.
So you are saying that the roots are competing with each other on the same strawberry??? I dont understand that point please help me understand how they compete with themselfs
The thought is that less occupied real estate = less "available nutrients" in that area of soil than there would be if the roots were spread out to reach more surface area. They aren't competing with each other per se, but why not help them be better resourced right from the start if you can?
2weeks ago I picked red strawberries- and today both plants all leaves are dried- help plz
Sounds like they might need more water
What if you got there with strawberries that have no crowns
They should always have at least a little crown- worst case scenario, just make sure the roots are covered to the base of the nubbin
@@VeronicaFlores yeah I think I got beat by home Depot because everything that was like I got it almost looked like it was dead like it was dark brown so I think that I just got GOT. Boo to them
@@andreagnadinger1797 BOOOO yeah I loathe those little baggies from there- they're almost always dead by the time they get to you. :(
I've killed hundreds of strawberry plants and only got about 3 strawberries.
Phew - any idea what you’re doing wrong after hundreds? 🫥
@@VeronicaFlores not just buying strawberries from the store.
Ps you're hands are dirty.
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Terrible video. 99% of ppl are not ordering anything from a local whatever. The big box stores it is. You basically eliminated majority of the audiences follow along ability before you got started.
Already potted strawberries from the big box are fine, and you’re more than welcome to buy those from the big box and plant them instead. This video is specifically geared towards gardeners who want to work with bare root plants because of more interesting varieties available, as well as lower cost per plant. If you feel eliminated because of the (objectively) helpful parameters I’ve set for where to get *actually alive* bare root crowns, then you’re clearly not my intended audience, and would be just as well off lighting a $5 or $10 bill on fire as you would buying those mostly dead big box bare roots. I haven’t eliminated anyone - I’ve merely attempted to prevent them from experiencing the sunk cost and heartache that is working with bagged trash propagation materials. That being said, this video can also help you to evaluate if the potted varieties you’ve bought from the big box were set in their pots correctly to begin with, and what adjustments may need to be made for how the crown is situated in transplanting. In any case, I highly recommend that you try taking deeper breaths.