How do I feed my strawberries?

katiel

Planted a selection of good quality strawberry plants in the fat grow bags last year. Now I'm wondering how, when and what do I feed them this year, without hoiking them out and re-planting them?

cootambear

weekly tomato feed in may onwards

MalUK

Specifically, when the flower have appeared and the fruit start to form.

katiel

Thanks people. So the plants themselves don't need feeding? Just the fruits?

forgotmyname

I would feed a little bit of general plant feed, chicken pellets etc before the plant starts to grow.

Then tomato/fruit feed when the flowers start to appear.

cootambear

katiel wrote: »

Thanks people. So the plants themselves don't need feeding? Just the fruits?

the plant. then the plant produces flowers which turn into fruit.

A._Badger

Take care to use a high potash feed with trace elements. The easiest to use is a powder form which you dilute and use when you water - something like Chempak 4 or Phostrogen would be ideal. Don't use a houseplant-type fertiliser high in Nitrogen, or you'll get more leaves than fruit.

MalUK

katiel wrote: »

Thanks people. So the plants themselves don't need feeding? Just the fruits?

Add it to water as described on the label and water the plant with it. The reasons you need tomato feed is potassium. Anything that produces fruit needs potassium, shop-bought compost will have lots in it already, but after a few months the plant exhausts the supply in the soil and that is when you start adding it to the water.