Growing fruiting strawberries on flowerpots requires the following maintenance techniques

Here is how to plant strawberries in flowerpots or hanging baskets. You can also grow strawberries in the balcony or courtyard. Here are some ways to grow strawberries. Master the following maintenance skills so that you can continue to harvest fruit.

You can choose different varieties of strawberries, and the strawberries that bear fruit in summer will be particularly large, but there are also varieties that bear fruit in four seasons, which can bring you sweet fruit in summer and autumn.

Strawberries can be planted on the ground, and if there is no yard, they can be cultivated in pots or hanging baskets. It is very suitable for potted fruit cultivation. When planting strawberries for the first time, it is best to buy strawberry seedlings to cultivate. Of course, you can also choose to sow and reproduce. It can blossom and bear fruit for 3 to 4 years in a row, and then the fruit will be reduced very seriously.

For strawberries cultivated in the ground, the row spacing is about 30cm to 40cm, and the plant spacing is about 7cm. Strawberries have very strong roots and need to prepare loose and thick soil, and it is best to add some compost soil or mature base fertilizer at the bottom. Strawberry seedlings should be directly pierced when transplanting to avoid root bending.

After planting good strawberry seedlings, do not cover the rhizome too much, otherwise it is easy to cause stagnant water rotten roots, strawberry roots should cover the soil, the soil should have a certain water retention capacity, to avoid too fast dry leaf yellow.

During the maintenance of strawberries, strawberries will grow very rapidly, should be watered regularly, keep the soil slightly moist, and the surrounding weeds should be removed in time. After a few weeks, they can grow into strong plants.

Strawberries will bear fruit for 5 or 6 years at most, but they will continue to grow creeping branches. As long as these branches are cut off and used for cutting and propagation, they can bear fruit year after year. Creeping branches can be pressed directly into the soil, let it grow roots and then cut off, transplant into a new small pot.

The basin for cultivating strawberries should have large drainage holes, prepare loose, fertile and well-drained humus soil, and be rich in humus. Transplanting strawberry seedlings should be watered regularly to avoid soil dryness, and as strawberries grow new leaves, they should be transplanted into larger flowerpots.

These are striped strawberries that grow creeping branches that are directly buried in the soil so that they can easily grow into new potted strawberries.

Late maintenance should slowly increase the light, maintain more than 6 hours of direct light every day, and the environment must be ventilated to avoid being kept in an airtight space. During the growing period, you should water regularly and keep plenty of water. Soon you can see their white flowers, especially in summer and autumn.

Maintain strawberries in a place where bees or other insects pollinate. Of course, you can also use a brush to brush the pollen of one flower onto the style of another. It takes about 30 to 35 days for strawberries to blossom and bear fruit.

Maintenance of potted strawberries must not let the soil too dry, it needs more water in the growing period, but to prevent the invasion of diseases and insect pests, to avoid soil stagnant water, otherwise easy to rot roots, conservation environment must be ventilated, otherwise easy to infect fungal diseases.

The soil can be covered with a layer of straw or other mulch to reduce diseases and insect pests. The soil can be mixed with some broken eggshells and bone powder. A circle of broken eggshells can be placed around the soil to prevent slugs and snails from invading. Otherwise, they will eat all your strawberries.

After the strawberries bear fruit, to prevent birds from eating, you can cover a net on the plant or put a reflective disc next to it to prevent birds from approaching.