Category: Tips for growing strawberries

The best strawberries you will ever taste are the ones from your garden. Strawberries are incredibly easy to grow if you have full sun and they are many times tastier than the supermarket ones. Success with strawberries depends on your understanding of their life cycle. They need a long days and warm temperatures for leaves growth and cool temperatures for flower formation. In the spring choose your planting site carefully, a deep, sandy loam soil, with a pH between 5.5 and 6.8, free of perennial weeds, well drained and rich in organic matter. Plan to plant strawberries in the spring in the holes deep and wide enough to accommodate the entire root system and irrigate immediately after planting. Provide adequate space for sprawling and be sure to control all weeds that emerge during the growing season. Pick strawberries when they are fully red by cutting the stem, do not pull.