To get nice big strawberry plants for next year you will need to space them out, if they are in those round grow sacks I would only have two maybe three at a push, plants in each. You could pot some up in ten inch pots then next Spring feed them weekly with Tomato feed.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
oh bloody hell ta Lyn, I planted 4 in the top of the sack, which have turned into 8, and let the runners go into the side pockets..I could of had so many more but I read somewhere online to pinch the runners and it'll fruit more, so yes I'm definitely expecting too much from the first yr and think I'll have to pick up some soil this weekend and get potting pronto!!
Regards to the grow sacks, how good are they and does using side pockets affect growth do you know, or is there not much difference to a pot? I never used them before and always assumed they were for spuds!! or should they be directly in soil for best results? I don't really want to pull up my lawn, may get on to more borders and beds next year and was going to keep fruit/veg on my patio in pots and keep the lawn for the kids but I do have space for a small plot if its needed.
I can't grow them outside where I live so they are in 10" pots in the greenhouse, if you grow them in the ground watch out for slugs.
i don't like those strawberry planters myself as the plant needs a big growing space to reach full potential, and if you think of the amount of plants to compost you have to decide if it's enough.
growers will plant them 18" apart in even wider rows, but it's down to you and what you want to get out of a plant, the more space, the better the crop.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
yeah that's my worry with doing a plot, too many slugs/bugs plus I'm quite lazy with weeds so it seems easier and more convenient in pots for me and I totally agree with you about the sack taking up so much compost compared to how many plants there are I could of easily filled 3 decent sized pots! thanks for all the tips you've been a great help
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To get nice big strawberry plants for next year you will need to space them out, if they are in those round grow sacks I would only have two maybe three at a push, plants in each. You could pot some up in ten inch pots then next Spring feed them weekly with Tomato feed.
oh bloody hell ta Lyn, I planted 4 in the top of the sack, which have turned into 8, and let the runners go into the side pockets..I could of had so many more but I read somewhere online to pinch the runners and it'll fruit more, so yes I'm definitely expecting too much from the first yr and think I'll have to pick up some soil this weekend and get potting pronto!!
Regards to the grow sacks, how good are they and does using side pockets affect growth do you know, or is there not much difference to a pot? I never used them before and always assumed they were for spuds!! or should they be directly in soil for best results? I don't really want to pull up my lawn, may get on to more borders and beds next year and was going to keep fruit/veg on my patio in pots and keep the lawn for the kids but I do have space for a small plot if its needed.
I can't grow them outside where I live so they are in 10" pots in the greenhouse, if you grow them in the ground watch out for slugs.
i don't like those strawberry planters myself as the plant needs a big growing space to reach full potential, and if you think of the amount of plants to compost you have to decide if it's enough.
growers will plant them 18" apart in even wider rows, but it's down to you and what you want to get out of a plant, the more space, the better the crop.
yeah that's my worry with doing a plot, too many slugs/bugs plus I'm quite lazy with weeds so it seems easier and more convenient in pots for me and I totally agree with you about the sack taking up so much compost compared to how many plants there are I could of easily filled 3 decent sized pots! thanks for all the tips you've been a great help