How to Grow Strawberries Organically - Complete Growing Guide
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2017
- In this complete growing guide, we are growing strawberries! Strawberries are a delicious treat but can be very expensive. Not only are they delicious but they are so easy to grow! In this episode, we will talk about sunlight, watering, pH, fertilizing, and when to pull out your plants. starting from the bare root, pruning runners, and watering!
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“No such thing as too much sun.” Me sobbing as all my plants (including succulents and cacti) burn in Southern California.
Mississippi here and I feel your pain when watching his channel . Love the info but have to remind myself his sun is a baby sun and mine is a monster
I wish 🥲
Yeah, here in South Dakota growing is a bit challenging, spring is non existent, long hot summers to heat stress plants and then like 4-5 months of snow and ice. Proper growing season doesn’t start till May, but sometimes June due to freak snow.
Central Florida here, I've got a high tunnel on our main market garden section of tomatoes, okra, and some cucumbers this year with 60% shade cloth.
Try 8,300 feet in the southern Colorado rockies on for size. 😁
We were still getting snow in late May, frost in early June and mid 80s to 90 mid June. The UV is through the roof.
Years ago I'd read about someone who simply allowed their strawberry plants to 'march' across his garden. He encouraged the runners to go in one direction and every year tilled up a section of plants on the other side tilling up about 1/3 of the bed each time. That way he tilled up the 3-yr old plants every year.
This is quite brilliant.
what's wrong with 3 year old plants?
My daughter and I were laughing throughout your video. We grew strawberries in Barcelona. They jumped out of the pots into all of their neighbors' pots and took them over, grew monstrously large fruit and took no heed to anything we tried to do. We cut the runners, picked the fruit and gave them water. They were super aggressive, yet very delicious. Well, we saved seed from those fruit and grew them where we live now in Mexico. They have followed the same behavior here, taking over all the pots, reproducing like crazy and making huge fruit.
Tc Anderson Since you lived in Barcelona do you speak the Catalan Language?
Yes
Why were you laughing?
Sounds like your strawberries have fantastic genes!
I think so too
You are probably the most sane and informative gardening channel on yt, thank you for explaining everything in depth and including extra interesting/useful information :)
Totally agree!
CzuPaper (y)
lol at "sane"...Wondering what other gardeners you're thinking of.
I was thinking the same thing as I was watching this video along with his other videos.
CzuPaper
Agreed. 👍
I got 25 strawberry plants for 6$ over here in. pa gotta love the Amish
where did you buy them? can we order them?
@@raesandberg482 no way . First you find the Amish . We in Va have the Amish over there in Southern Maryland in a place called Charlotte Hall they got a huge . Flea market that the Amish use to sale there stuff. I have only driven by there . Never stopped.. in Pennsylvania . Surely in Lancaster , you are likely to hit pay dirt. Ohio has a a big contingent of Amish up north. Northern Ohio you see them on that highway that parallels I-80 toll road. Check for where they sale their stuff
Yes order from the Amish online
@@fuupdaass275 Your user name is too funny not to write down! Thanks for making my laugh when I've been having an otherwise "not so good" mood!
Love going to Lancaster Amish roadside markets! I get the most beautiful plants
I've been watching these videos daily and they're extremely helpful. Can't wait to see all the trees and plants thriving. Keep us updated with how thing go! Thanks :)
I love how you keep each fruit/vegetable to one video. it helps a lot. each video is jam packed with info!
Thank you for sharing this informative video Luke! I picked a lot of 🍓 up in Oregon growing up my dad would take us to Silverton Oregon and we all would go out every day and pick strawberries in these beautiful huge field of strawberries and of course we ate a lot of them as we went along. We used to also have strawberry fights just for fun!!! I love those memories of my youth with friends and family with eight of us kids working so hard but kids seem to have boundless energy!🍓😜☝️🙏
I'm growing mine in containers I live in an apartment so I have no choice lol I bought bare root plants they were doing well then died I then went on to buy the Bonnie plants they're thriving I plan on getting more please keep us updated I'd love to see these beds in bloom tfs
"You can't give them too much sun" Truer words have never been spoken! Where I live, we have midnight sun during the summer season, (so theoretically they can get sun 24h/day in summer) and locally grown strawberries (if the season isn't too wet or too dry) are extremely much better than any strawberries from the south!
Question, the runners that you get, do you transplant them immediately or do you store them as runners/rhizome over winter (or for two years until your current crop ages?) like bulbs?
Also, how would you do this if you were to grow them in containers? (I live in an apartment with no garden spot but I'd love to have 4-5 strawberry plants)
Thank you for this growing guide! I planted 25 about a month ago and I must have planted them to deep because only 10 of them are still growing! I will use this advise when I get the next batch!
Thank you for the information. I am on the waiting list for Trifecta. You are already sending me Strawberries!
I love your channel. You are very informative to all your videos. Thanks so much for sharing.
Luke! Can U explain what you do with the runners to root them? And what do YOU put under your berries to prevent contact with with the soil? Thank u for your work! And for thinking out loud while u work. This scientist is cheering you!!! Sharing your videos with everyone in the West!
Filled with great details! You’re the BEST, Luke!!
I'm venturing out of just gardening outside with a Spring & Fall plantings, now I'm using the static Hydroponics to grow strawberries, lettuces & peppers.
I just followed what Luke showed in one of his other videos.
Next, I want to get better at harvesting my own seeds. But I still will always buy from Luke's seed selection. They are, hands down, the best quality & quantity for your money!!!
I appreciate how to the point, concise and informative this video was. Thank you so much.
This year I put trifecta around each plant and wow! I'm getting large sweet strawberries.
I love strawberries
Thanks Luke! Great video on how to grow strawberries! Very helpful!
Never heard of Jungseed company before. I am so thankful for you Migardener! Just received my order, planting asparagus and everybearing strawberries for the first time!
I always found just mixing some sand in the soil does wonders for strawberries as they are so particular with drainage. Always worked and it's a cheap trick for well draining soil, especially in pots.
I just planted the strawberry seeds purchased from your company. I hope they do well.
Just planted 80 crowns today :) hope they take off and produce and grow for me
skiperdog I pray God blesses your plants with an abundance of fruit. ❤️
skiperdog
How are they doing? 😎
about half took and the other half my dad planted didn't. I think he planted the crowns too deep. The ones that are growing already have runners and flowers
@@skiperdog so here it is 3 years later.
How is it all going?
Thanks for this timely episode! Will you do one in the fall on cutting the runners?
As a Michigander myself I can really hear that MI accent. Love the channel!
I bought my strawberry bare root plants from Jungs also. They are the french variety (Marie Des Bois??). I grew them first year in longish box planters because we were selling our house and I did not want to lose a year in the garden. At the end of the summer/fall when we sold the house I moved the plants off to a new bed then mulched them with straw and hoped for the best. We are zone 4. They look awesome and so healthy. I am so excited about harvesting them this year and clipping runners to keep the crop going. Good tips as always 😉
Great to know, thank you! I was just contemplating where to put my strawberry bed...now I know I'll probably make 3 areas, putting my runners in the second, then the third, then back to the first. That way I'll always have strawberries and not have to buy more after the 3rd year. Good info!
Thanks for the info, our kids want to grow alot of strawberries this year. thanks for sharing
Another great informative video! Unfortunately, I covered my strawberry bed for the winter with straw. Something I never did before but reading up on them suggested I do so.
My bed plants were two years old and I say unfortunately because with the extremely mild winter when I uncovered them around the first part of April they were all dead! Some runners that sprang up around the outside edges of the bed are growing and flowering. I'm going to let them grow a little longer and try to transplant them back in the bed. If it doesn't work I'll start the bed from scratch next year.
Perfectly timed! I love this. This year we planted fruit trees on our mini homestead, next spring's projects are a raised bed of strawberries and edible fencing with grape vines. Any chance you have a complete growing guide for grapes in the future? :-D
So i grew one from a bare root.
Pertaining to feeding,
Everyone said how bad mirscle gro was.
So once i fed it the mg 24 8 16.
I now have a bushy patch from 1 plant.so many big leaves i can barely see the flowers 😆
One of our fave crops. Thanks for the video!
you are my absolutely new favorite for all things gardening
Thank you! I will be moving our strawberry bed to a location with better sun and feed them far better!
This video was super helpful. My first attempt was a fail. I planted too deep and watered too much and they didn't come up. I sprinkled some seeds on the top soil this time. Would try the root again but do it this way.
Ours have spread like weeds! I love it. Thanks for posting this. I did not know to soak, wish I had!
"Pathetic." 😆 love these videos! Thank you!
you can also off-set the rows. like 3 2 3 2 still have 4 rows but will not take up 4 feet of box and all plants will still be 1 foot apart.
enjoyed your video thanks for all the good useful information
Thank you. I did not know strawberries were only good for 3 years.
Solid advice. Thank you for this
Been watching your videos and thanks for passing on your knowledge. You've been very helpful.
This is my second year of growing strawberries. The plants are very nice and have been putting off a lot of fruit but they don't seem to turn red. They stay green in color and some are nice size and some are small. Any suggestions?
Great video!
Very easy to grow in low sun here in Southwest Florida. Great video Luke. Thank you my friend :)
FYI: I'm growing 'Sweet Charlie' and 'Chandler' varieties here in zone 10b with little care and great success
Oh, and yes it's true. Strawberry plants can certainly receive too much sun here in SW Florida. I learn by trial and error. These are not tropical and cannot withstand the climate during summer months without suitable micro climate condition to provide it some shade
So much great info :-)
I had good luck with Jungs strawberries. Nice channel
Last year my strawberry plants loved the sun..and I put them in a area where most plants would toast but the strawberry plants thrived ! Luke if right about the sun thing.
Dude, you have the thickest Michigan accent, love it!!:)
I grew up not far from him and when I read this comment my first thought was "what accent?"
Thanks luke
I put a small mound in the dug hole, spread the roots around it like a dress, and backfill to the top of the roots. Honestly, I learned it from Priogoni's channel.
Great video
Wow very informative vedio I learned a lot from here.Thanks for sharing warching always here in South Korea
Good video, strawberry time!
migardener: well hello, this is going to be a very exiting episode and today...
me: isn't every episode exiting?
Love your videos! I did not see where is the best place to buy crowns. Also, which are the best varieties. Thanks for your hard work and sharing:)))
Can you make a video, showing how to cut the runners?
Love the videos! Been watching pretty hardcore for a few months now. Question. How does the plant do in humid environments such as Montreal. ??
I'm pretty sure I've heard Luke (as well as other garden UA-camrs) advise people to talk to local nurseries, neighbors, & (if you live in the US) your county's Extension Office (USDA Cooperative Extension Service offices)--maybe Canada has similar programs?
People who live in the same area will know more about what grows best in your climate. UA-camrs I've watched also say to just try things out & see what works best for you, since each garden is different & different gardeners can get varying results--even when they do live nearby.
I wish I would have watched this before I planted my strawberries😞😞
What happened?
love and peace me too,I took mine out the package and planted without soaking 😌
Wouldn't have mattered
Same 😔
do you fertilize your strawberries if so what kind of fertilizer do you use and how often do you apply it?
In Florida, there is very much a thing as too much sun. Lol everything burns if it doesn't get some shade at some point. Finding that out the hard way with my garden where some areas get sun nearly all day.
What do we do here in Michigan to strawberry plants in the fall? Do you cut the plants back? I've read where some advise to mow them down with a lawnmower! Do I/should I add any soil or plant enhancements now or wait until spring? Thanks for sharing your expertise on You Tube. You are so informative and helpful!
I thought we were adding 1/4 cup Trifecta+ when planting????
My strawberries come up in the spring but barely grow much. The do not bloom but they do grow runners. I am digging them up and putting them in a different raised bed that I have compost in and built the soil, hopefully better than where they are.
What?? 25 Plants for $9.99? My whole life has been a lie XD
redpilled
think I found a new live plant supplier!
i bought about 2 live plants (6" tall) this spring, and its fed the rodents all summer. I potted this week and turns out i have 4-5 extra new strawberry plants. love the berry propagation.
You need a pellet gun.
@@tomwalton3202 a cat or two would probably work better. Native snakes, even xD
Good!
Hi. If I picked my strawberry runners and planted them without rooting them. Would they still grow. Thanks. Love the channel. Keep up the good work
For those of us who are land/property challenged...can you do a quick video for growing strawberries in "Strawberry Pots"?
Yassss!!! I just checked ur channel & subscribed!! You need to change your name to "Strawberry Man"! lol I will be checking all your strawberry vids this evening! thank you, sir! 🤗 🍓
Thanks, will check it out
You can grow them in those fabric grocery bags, and hang them from the wall. I line mine with plastic and cut a drainage hole in each corner to keep my wall from getting wet, but I grow mine indoors.
Any thoughts on how to stop the plants/runners besides cutting them? My strawberry patch is out of control. Started with 2 Bonnie plants and now I have at least 70 plants, made a cage 4x8 to keep birds out but the plants have escaped these confines. I basically killed 5 plants today getting them out of the asparagus?
Hi. Very helpful. However unless I missed it in another comment you didn't explain your planting technique. Are you lining all three plants up all the way down, staggering the middle row etc. Thank you
It's amazing why people believe someone who does all the talking but has not a single strawberry to show for. When we watch any UA-cam channel, we need to have a critical mind and the result does matter when it comes to gardening!
luke, do you have to plant the dormant strawberries right away after getting them in the mail? or are they forgiving in terms of when you plant them?
At what time do you put trifecta for plants?
cool video
You really should buy from someone who has taken the Safe Seed Initiative (SSI) pledge. I love the commitment to ethical seeds I get from Johnny Seeds of Maine
Nice to see Clark Kent has a hobby when he's not writing stories on Superman.
I got 4 plants last year and they spread like fire! The first year and year two I'm getting tons for berries
Johnny's Selected Seeds is less than 10 minutes away. I bought a sale bundle of three varieties and they have given me lots of good berries. I highly recommend Johnny's.
Lucky you!!!!
What is I want to use a starter plant
what products (fertilizers or herbicides) do you use on your lawn? I would love to have great grass near my beds and also plan to plant some fruit trees, but want to avoid contaminating the soli and our food.
I have a well with very hard water. Will this make any real difference in the long term health of the plants or fruit production?
For preventing mold, what's your take on the effectiveness of laying some form of ground cover (weed fabric, straw, etc.) between the fruit and bare ground?
Strawberries benefit from a mulch of some kind to keep the roots cool and moist
Hi MIGardener! This has been incredibly informative -- thank you for sharing.
I was hoping for some more advice?
I live in a condo. and was very successful in growing a strawberry plant (without fruit) this summer (year 1) from seeds on my balcony. I used to get over 12 hours of sun a day, and the summer was very warm. Living in Canada, the weather started getting very cold 2 weeks ago, so I brought the large rectangular pots indoors, and over the past two weeks (much more suddenly in the past 3-4 days), I've started to notice the leaves wilting and parts of it simply dying (browning/drying).
How can I 'diagnose' what I'm doing wrong? I was very hopeful to keep them going through the winter to get fruits next year, but looks like I won't make it through September/October...
Thanks to you, or anyone else who may respond.
Your seriously the best! Thank you for all you do! My next years seed order is going to be through you! Can you recommend a soil tester?
Soil test through your local extension in your state, it will be at one of the large colleges in your state and runs about $5
i just planted two more varieties into my patch of straberrys im hoping for a big yeaild down the road here.
At my parents house I have started strawberries, several varieties, in pots. They love it, and on the ground near those containers we have wild strawberries volunteering. They don't taste much, but it makes a beautiful groundcover.
Do you have to plant the runners right away
I live in mi as well first year growing them. I have them in rows in my garden. How do I prep them for winter?
Have you done a video on peach trees yet?
luck I don't understand I've ordered from your seeds before and it block me this time when I was trying to order and I don't know what I've done wrong I'm 60 and I'm not very tech-savvy so there's no telling what I've done but I don't know how to undo it please help
Hi, question bout the sunlight. Is that ok if the strawberries being less than 7h exposes? I have a spot here, but not with too much sunlight.
Luke, I live in Idaho and I cannot find Trifecta plus anywhere, even on Amazon. Is there another brand of fertilizer that compares that I can buy out here? Thanks ahead of time. P. S. Love your videos!
My strawberries (actual fruit) start growing good and then shy of an inch they turn dark. I used regular fertilizer. What am I doing wrong?! Thanks
what type of strawberries do buy from jungseeds? There are a few different names...
what is the proper planting time of year for strawberries in central Florida?
Do you have a video about how to winterize a strawberry bed?
Luke, I've seen people trim the roots before planting. Do you think that's a good idea?
Thanks.
How long does it take for red sail lettuce leaves to grow back?
where do you get untreated boards to make a garden box? how do you know if it's not treated?
My area gets in the 100. -110 during July August end high 90s in September. Should I plant my strawberries in full Sun?
are you going to use strawberry decoys (rocks painted like strawberries, vintage MIgardener) to reduce bird consumption? as always, thanks for the guide.
Ok, I hadn't heard that one?
Me either! Have you tried it?
Great video! I've just started planting out some strawberry plants, and they are starting to grow runners. Do you wait until those runners have a decent root system before cutting them away from the mother plant and moving them to a different location? Thanks in advance!
Lucriseth first year strawberry plant runners should be cut off asap so that the mother plant can grow deep roots and the 2nd year can have full fruits. I made the mistake of not removing runners the first year and some mother plants are weak.
Thank you for your reply, Kimberly! I'll go ahead and cut them off asap! Thank you :)