THE BEST ORGANIC SUPPLEMENT FOR STRAWBERRIES! For large and sweet fruits. The best strawberries you'll ever taste will come from the garden, as fully ripe strawberries have a rich, aromatic flavor that can't be matched by their supermarket counterparts. Enjoying the juiciness of freshly picked, melt-in-your-mouth strawberries is just one reason to grow your own. As the first fruits to ripen in the spring, strawberries are a nutritional asset to any garden. Success with strawberries requires you to understand their life cycle. Like most hardy perennials, strawberries die back in the winter and begin to grow vigorously as the soil warms in the spring. After fruiting (as early as February in Florida, or June further north), many types of strawberries produce numerous pickers with young on the tips. Those runners often root nearby but remain attached to the parent plant. These types of strawberries produce more fruit if you cut off most of the pickers, allowing each plant to produce a maximum of 3 daughter plants each summer. (Some strawberry varieties produce little or no pickers.) Exhausted by fruit and brood, strawberries usually take a second rest period in the second half of summer. When kept weeded and lightly watered, most parent plants-and their offspring-recover and grow again some time in the fall. Although it may seem like little is happening with strawberries in September, the plants are busy during the fall months developing hidden buds that will grow into flowers next spring. Strawberries need at least 8 hours of full sun each day and prefer slightly acidic soil with a pH between 5.5 and 6.8. If the soils in your area are naturally alkaline, it is best to grow strawberries in half-barrels or other large containers filled with high-quality potting soil. Strawberries can also be potted in heavy clay, which should be liberally amended with composted leaves, fully rotted sawdust like container mix, it contains high quality aged compost-before planting strawberries. After mixing 4 inches or more of compost, rake the clay soil into raised mounds to further improve drainage. If your soil is sandy, simply till it to remove weeds and mix in a 1-inch layer of rich compost or well-rotted manure. #plants #garden #organic
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THE BEST ORGANIC SUPPLEMENT FOR STRAWBERRIES! For large and sweet fruits
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