How to grow your wild strawberries
How to successfully grow your own strawberries – perhaps from a Sprout pencil? Everybody loves strawberries – so why not grow these irresistible wild strawberries yourself?
You can grow them in your garden or in a container on your patio. They are perfect as cover plants in your container garden as they like partly shade. So try to plant them under a high-stemmed scrub, e.g. a marguerite daisy or a lemon tree. This will cover the bare soil in your container which will help to reduce weeds and evaporation of water. And it will look so pretty!
How to grow wild strawberries
Wild strawberry is quite drought tolerant, so they don’t need so much water when first growing. But if planted in a container, the amount of soil is limited and it will always need more water than if grown in the garden. Proper watering and fertilization will always give you the best result: a healthy plant and flavourful strawberries.
Ordinary strawberries are normally grown from plugs, but wild strawberries you can grow from seeds – and Sprout Pencils.
Plant the seeds/pencil in a pot with moist soil, don’t plant it too deep as the seeds are very small. Using the seeds from the Sprout Pencil you are guaranteed a high quality seeds with high success rate with make the plant sprout. They will germinate after app. 3 weeks. If you plant inside, the plants can be planted outdoors in late spring. You can expect to get berries after 4 months. Strawberries are perennials – this means that they will continue to grow after the winter season.
A good tip
A good tip when growing strawberries is to use a fertilizer low in nitrogen and fertilize in the autumn. This will give you the most berries. If you fertilize in spring and/or use high nitrogen levels, this will result in lot of leaves and not so many berries. And water the plant from below like illustrated in the video.
Try to grow you own wild stra strawberries, you find the Sprout Pencil in our webshop here.
Good luck with growing strawberries – it is fun to grow your own food!
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Helle Haugaard
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