How to Grow Delicious Strawberries in Hanging Pots
Just about everybody likes strawberries. Try to imagine summer without strawberry ice cream or sweet strawberry shortcake. While they may suffice for winter, in the summertime you don't have to settle for frozen strawberries. You don't even have to have a garden to enjoy a few fresh strawberries once you learn how to grow strawberries in hanging pots. Fall is the best time to plant strawberries. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Fill several large hanging pots with potting soil, using a trowel. Fill the pots with potting soil.
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Put one to two mother plants in each pot. Water the plants in and place them in a protected place, like an enclosed porch or garage. Water and fertilizer regularly all winter. You must watch them and be sure they are staying healthy.
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Fill three to five smaller hanging pots with potting soil in the spring.
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Hang these smaller pots below the larger ones in a location that receives at least six hours of sun per day. The mother strawberry plants will begin to sprout daughters. Guide these daughter plants to the smaller hanging pots where they can take root and begin to grow.
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Apply fertilizer rich in nitrogen, according to package instructions. Continue to watch your mother and daughter plants so they remain healthy. Eventually the mother plant will die, but you should notice pretty white blossoms on the daughter plants. These are the beginnings of your strawberries.
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Tips & Warnings
Day-neutral and alpine strawberries are best suited to growing in pots.
Strawberries grown in pots may not produce as many berries as those grown in the ground.
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Something anyone who loves strawberries should try; plant them in the "TOPSY TURVY" where you hang them from a porch; tree limb anything around five feet high. The TOPSY TURVY bags grow the berries upside down; also tomatoes, cukecumbers, bell peppers, and several other veggies can be grown the same way...unside down. This is my 3 year growing in TOPSY TURVY planters and they are remarkable with bumper crops on everything I have grown. After more than 20 years of growing my own veggies I finally had to quit due to severe arthritus. With TOPSY TURVY I can now have a garden again; no digging, no weeding, and I only have to worry about 25% of the insects, cutworms and nematodes and most all the rest of the insects are no longer a problem. I set it all up with an automatic drip watering system; now all I have to do is give a little fertilizer every two weeks and that's it; NO MORE HARD WORK THAT PREVENTED ME FROM GARDENING NOW THAT I AM DISABLED. I encourage everyone to use TOPSY TURVY BAGS; especially if, like me, you are now disabled and can no longer dig in the ground and weed.
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