Fertilizing Strawberry Plants Garden Quickie Episode 65
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Want More Strawberries? Well, you gotta feed them. Strawberry plants are heavy feeders and to achieve those epic, bountiful harvests, they need the right nutrients at the right time.
But you know what? Its not hard because Strawberry plants are only fertilized twice a year! Even though this is a Garden Quickie, we'll cover the who, what, when, why, and how of Strawberry fertilizing.....and we'll do it in 2 minutes or less (ish)! :-)
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I’ve been sharing with another backyard gardener your videos. This is only her 2nd yr.
Thank you for your info pact presentations. Don’t change a thing!
Wow! That's what I call, an EXTREME Garden Quickie!💥😉 Thanks a MILLION, Jeff!🏆😍🤗💞
H aha thanks! 🙂
I love anything you do on strawberries. I haven't seen anyone else give good advice on them without some error or flaw.
Thanks so much Ronald, too kind my man! :-)
This one was a real quickie!
I absolutely LOVE Garden Quickies, Thank You!
Thanks Debbie! :-)
Perfect timing 💜
Another great quicki!
I hope to have albion bare root strawberry plants arrive tomorrow. These past few videos...perfect timing man! Thanks to you, I think we've got this. Cheers!
Thanks Jeff great information as always
Cheers Bev, hope the weekend is treating you well!
🍓 Short & sweet Jeff just like a strawberry 🍓👍🏻 perfect
Thanks for this.
Cheers Connie, thanks for watching! :-)
Another episode of great news and I didn’t do for my strawberries 😬 now I need to look for that fertilizer 3-2-5 thanks Jeff your awesome 👍👍🙏🏻♥️
Still a perfect time to fertilize strawberries now Emy! Best of luck! :-)
You must have some fertile soil to be able to only feed twice per year. My plants are grown in coco so there is zero nutrition in my "soil" if you wanna call it that. I use Masterblend tomato formula along with calcium nitrate and magnesium sulphate. I just don't have the space here to grow in soil like you do. When I get a new place with some property I will be planting in the ground and going organic with my own homemade compost.
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Cheers! 🙂
Wow
Hello jeff your strawberry fruit is bigger than mine , good job and thanks sharing fertilizer tips
I wish you epic harvests this year!
Hey Jeff! Have you ever heard of Liqui-Dirt? Its advertised as a pretty all purpose fertilizer. It works great on my indoor plants, but i was wondering if I could use it on my edibles as a supplement in addition to the NPK fertilizer I plan on using, as it seems to have the trace minerals you were talking about. Is it possible to over fertilize?
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Thanks! Appreciate that!
Hi do you have a link to the fertilizer. I’ve tried looking it up and can’t find anything with 3-2-5 online
I just recieved some strawberry fertilizer from a well known company, the NPK is 10-52-17. This has to be the most unbalanced fertilizer I've ever seen. Nobody else sells a strawberry fertilizer with these numbers that I know of. My question is what kind of results will it produce?
Hi
What is your opinion of using comfrey on Strawberries as its fertiliser. Also would putting Growmore or Alfalfa pellets be then too much fertiliser? Thanks. Great videos!!
I get quite confused with the fertilizers. Would not a 4-4-4 be more balanced? Or is it best to have just a touch more Nitrogen. Thank you🙏
Yes, if all 4 numbers are identical, that is literally as balanced as you can get. Nitrogen helps with foliar growth, too much and it'll affect flowering/fruiting. Getting the numbers as close together as possible is the key.
Thank as always !!! I was just trying to figure this out. I feed them with berry tone when I first planted them but now that they are growing and producing fruit this is the exact information I needed to know 🤗 yeay
There are not many good videos out there about growing and caring for strawberries so I’m so thankful that you have them!!
Quick question: when you refer to compost do you mean like food scraps broken down in soil, or like food scraps broken down in some leaves or something that turns into “soil”
Both. Broken down into a soil-like consistency. 🙂
true compost, is the end result of the whole process.
It looks dark and crumbly.....like oreo pie crust....mmmm.
Which will make a nice "mud tea"
@@jeffmoore6917 ha ha or mud pie!
This is my first year planting strawberries. I live in between zones 3 and 4. Can I use the wintering method for my area. That you're Nov 18, 2019 video shows. I have them planted in elevated garden troughs. And it gets pretty cold here in Wisconsin.
I'm in SouthCentral WI...Did you try it?.
will worm casting tea work good as a spring/fall fertilizer?
I purchased 12 doormat plants last month so it’s been almost 6 weeks th at I planted them.
Should I water them?
They are next to other plants so they have gotten some water but nothing intentional.
Any advice.
Any chance do you have any tips tricks and advice on Blueberry bushes?
I also would love to know about blueberries! I read they like acidic soil, so what fertilizer should I use? I also read they like uncooked coffee grounds..?
Same here. I planted some but they’ve hardly grown in a year.
Jeff were the strawberries you were feeding June bearing or ever bearing? Would the ever bearing varieties need a 3rd or 4th feeding? I got all ever bearing in so should get at least 3 harvests
I have all 3 types here Kittie. June bearing gets fed twice, everbearing usually gets fed 3 times....it gets a feeding in the middle of summer to try and get another harvest. I don't worry so much about the raised beds though....their soil is so good I don't even need to feed. But containers for sure.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks. Berries are in greenstalk so will need feeding. Appreciate the advice 🙏
I have been growing strawberries for years. Mine are in containers as they spread.
I have strawberries in a raised bed in the greenhouse. Lots of leaves but no flowers. Do you have any idea what I can do? I am in NE Scotland zone 7.
Can I also use this for my watermelon plant?
Definitely....I am right now in fact! :-)
Nice! Thank you so much for replying back ^_^
So I have runners…
What should I do?
Cut it or keep it
Due to the plant breaking dormancy
Runners are always cut off... They are a drain on the mother plant.
Hey dude! Is this fertilizer that you use considered organic or is it chemical?
You better believe it is! Most times, I actually make it myself!: ua-cam.com/video/fZsZMp-MCDY/v-deo.html
I had a great crop of everbearing strawberries for 2 years and then the moss took over.
I have 3 🍓 plants. 1 is doing well. 1 is doing okay. And 1 has lost most of its foliage. Same container. Same conditions.
That happens sometimes....some individual specimens are just weaker. :-(
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Got it!
Does break dormancy mean when you first see green leaves appear? Thank you!
That's correct! 🙂
Hi Jeff, could you put the link for liquid feed you use for strawberries?.
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@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Jeff, Thanks a bunch! I was looking for this too! 👍👍🙏🏻♥️
@@cheesekake1841 :-)
Do youhave any tips for fruit trees? Some of mine have lots of flower buds and some only a handful 😔
Like apples and pears? Or citrus?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms like plums, cherries and pear specifically. My peaches and Nectarine don't seem to have that issue..
@@WTFarmGirl @The Ripe Tomato Farms Excellent questions! 🙌
my relatives are commercial strawberry growers and i used to work for them they dont fertilize until after berries are done producing i guess i am confused as to when to fertilize
Definitely....depends on your application. Fields and fields of berry patches are likely heavily fertilized and amended in the spring. Plus they have infinite ground to tap into for more nutrients. The home grower washes the food out of the soil with EVERY watering. By the time you pick the last berry, there's nothing left for the plants.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms i use drip irrigation and iam organic when it comes to my garden with my vegetable garden i use worm casting and compost teas every 2 week it is the straw berry beds that i am nor sure about last fall i gave them alfalfa pellets they liked that a lot
I have pill bugs eating my strawberries. Any ideas to get rid of them organically?
They LOVE Strawberries Pat! Its crazy! Remove coarse mulch that they can hide under, as well as leaves touching the ground, then apply Diatomaceous Earth once a week. It should get rid of them...
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Oh my word...Thank you!! 💡🏆💗
@@morningwoodfarms713 best of luck!
Where can I buy that fertilizer?? I can't find it.
Can you say something about everbearing strawberries?:
I just planted some strawberry bare roots in a container. I wanted to transplant to a larger container but they have only been planted for a week. I read they need to form leaves before transplanting. Is this true?
Yeah, I'd give them time to get established first
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks
@@DO-NOT-COMPLY-MANDATES :-)
Hi Jeff thanks for the video. A quick question can I use chicken manure dry pellets?
My strawberries plants are dying it’s getting so dried what can I do
👍
:-)
Sals is this normal
My strawberry plant have over 30 flowers buds
Perfect! That's what you want to see!
That orgunique fertilizer is only available in Canada and I cannot find it here in Germany.
Orgunique
Just try to look for another liquid brand with similar N-P-K and ingredients. You're bound to find one. I have the same issues here in the USA. It's challenging and frustrating. Good luck and happy growing! ☘💕
In US "milorganite" is suggested when google searching for organuique fertilizer. Its sold at Lowes, Home Depot, Amazon, and several other places.
@@1erinjames It's usually a granular, slow release formula, mainly for lawn use. Though you can amend your vegetable beds with it, I wouldn't. There are SO many other better choices. Plus, the N-P-K is much different than the liquid, all-purpose that Jeff is using here. With the purpose of it being a balanced, fast acting fertilizer vs an unbalanced, slow release (milorganite has no "K" ratio). It does have its place in the garden, just not here. Only my opinion.
@Kati Pohl I don't recommend milorganite for this application.
Hi Jeff. I over wintered my strawberries in the garage and I noticed some of them have a white mold on them. Any suggestions to spray on them to kill the mold. Organic Home remedy mix please and thank you🙏
I would just get them outside pronto..... Nothing kills mold like fresh air and UV sunlight
roughrider!
Can I give them fish emulsions. Thanks jim80