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Dying Bare Root Strawberries.

ErnieReesErnieRees Posts: 1
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For the second year I have purchased in early spring, bare root strawberries this year Malling Opal. I planted them into pots in a mixture of ¾ compost and ¼ manure with a few chicken pellets. Initially they started to sprout young green leaves and grew on well in a frost free greenhouse, but after 3-4 weeks they are all dying back. Leaves turning brown. They have been kept moist throughout and this in the 2nd year this has happened. What am I doing wrong?






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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Your planting mixture sounds very rich, maybe too much. I have lots that survive despite neglect in poor soil and being very dry in various corners of the greenhouse so maybe they are too wet as well.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    It's my first time with strawberries this year. I potted 30 on into MPC with nothing else and they are like little thugs already. I think steephill has it that they do not need all the manure and feed in the pot.

    I'm literally learning out of a book, the advice there is the manure goes deep in the planting beds so the roots find it eventually, remembering the bed could be there for 3-4 years. Nothing about putting it in the pots.
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