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Post by phiferindia on Dec 25, 2013 9:00:57 GMT
WOW.....Its pleasant....Healthy plants and healthy fresh fruit... Great.... May i know how to seed strawberry, I never plant it and never saw anybodies garden in my area. And also i want to know how long it takes to grew and give fruit???
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Post by daitheplant on Dec 25, 2013 18:31:18 GMT
WOW.....Its pleasant....Healthy plants and healthy fresh fruit... Great.... May i know how to seed strawberry, I never plant it and never saw anybodies garden in my area. And also i want to know how long it takes to grew and give fruit??? Buy young plants from your local garden centre in the spring, plant them in their own bed, and you will get fruit in the summer. |
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Post by Rosie on Dec 26, 2013 12:46:31 GMT
WOW.....Its pleasant....Healthy plants and healthy fresh fruit... Great.... May i know how to seed strawberry, I never plant it and never saw anybodies garden in my area. And also i want to know how long it takes to grew and give fruit??? Plants are the best, but when you get them they will look dead as they are dormant and cold stored. Once they are in soil or compost they grow away like crazy  |
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Post by phiferindia on Feb 25, 2014 7:35:08 GMT
That sounds great...!!! Sure...
Yes well i know....Thank you for encouraging Rosie, But i need a seed where i could buy and in which type of soil i should plant and grew it...??
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Post by ladybird on Feb 25, 2014 12:02:29 GMT
[/quote]Yes well i know....Thank you for encouraging Rosie, But i need a seed where i could buy and in which type of soil i should plant and grew it...??[/quote]
I started strawberries from seed about 3 or 4 years ago, the variety was SARIAN f1 and as far as I can recall there were only a few seeds in the packet.
You have to be patient, my germination, was a bit eratic and it was two seasons before I got any strawberries.
sow seed about now in the usual way, on top of damp compost ,cover with a little compost or vermiculite . keep warm about 70deg ,they should start to germinate in about 10 days or so. I grew mine on in pots in the GH and finally planted them out among the flowers in my very sunny front garden , which has a clay like structure mixed with compost. last year there was a bumper crop of delicious strawberries from rummers that had produced loads of new plants ,I see they have spread even further this year even over the bark paths.
I plan to dig some up soon and put them in the GH for an early supply. One thing to watch for in the greenhouse is white fly , especially in plants brought in from outside , they can desimate strawberries . I also plan to dig some smaller ones up and put into window boxes using compost mixed with some soil and a layer of ground cover fabric over the top to retain moisture ( make holes for the planting )for me this method has proved to produce exceptionally results in the past as no pests can get to them .
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 2, 2014 15:39:10 GMT
Forget seed sown strawbs and buy from a reputable suppliier so you won't get virus infected plants. Also strawbs are early, mid season or main crop plus the everbearing varieties so you get lots of choice.
The general advice too is never let them get older than 3 years so you propogate from runners each year and discard the older plants. They can be forced to fruit earlier in a g'house or under cloches. In fact they are a bit like tomatoes in some respects as there are so many ways of growing them.
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Post by Rosie on Mar 24, 2014 12:28:53 GMT
I bought a punnet of mahoosive strawberries from Lidl and have just sown some of the seed, it'll be interesting to see how they go You know i like a challenge for the garden |
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Post by ladybird on Mar 24, 2014 19:04:59 GMT
I bought a punnet of mahoosive strawberries from Lidl and have just sown some of the seed, it'll be interesting to see how they go You know i like a challenge for the garden It might take a whle rosie but a great idea, you never know what you might get. Do keep us posted |
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 24, 2014 19:51:43 GMT
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Post by Rosie on Mar 25, 2014 8:51:15 GMT
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 25, 2014 20:07:10 GMT
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Post by sweetpea on May 25, 2014 15:56:00 GMT
Well apart from eating a few each visit to the g'house I harvested this lot today. Not going to win any prizes but I am not overly concerned about the size and shape. They will be given a dollop of cream and enjoyed this afternoon.   |
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Post by daitheplant on May 25, 2014 17:11:32 GMT
They look good enough to eat sweetpea.  |
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Post by sweetpea on May 25, 2014 17:39:11 GMT
Just a few Elsanta that I rescued from the garden last year and potted up. Not really been looked after properly but it is a free delicacy apart from the cream. |
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Post by Cherry on May 27, 2014 6:14:53 GMT
sweetpea what a great crop! I ate half of my first strawberry yesterday.
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