advice on growing strawberries

lil_me

Netting if you've got a £1 shop the ones near me do that at this time of year.

Managed to get a strawberry planter for just under £10 in Tesco a few weeks back, downside ordered plants off ebay and they were dying when I got them, no green leaves, but I've planted them anyway and some green leaves starting to appear downside is we're on holiday in 2 weeks time for 5 days and got noone to water them for me, hope we get overnight rain or something then as I have planted a lot of things this year and don't want them dying off

staceydaisy

hi all i want to grow my own strawberries i am thinking of getting a strawberry planter does any1 know how much these retail at or if i can get 1 very cheap from somewhere. What month should i plant strawberries and when will they be ready does any1 know

nodwah

Well I made my own strawb tower by stacking pots inside each other and using bricks to stand the inner ones on iyswim.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/2564444820/

Look out for plants in Lidl or Aldi and plant them up as soon as you get them. You might want to protect them a bit from the worst of the weather at first - they are completely hardy but if they've come from a warm shop it may be too much of a shock to go straight out
You'll get your crop in July normally but once you've got the bug you can look for earlier and later varieties to extend the season and get some alpine strawberries that keep going til the frosts

theGrinch

i grow them in plastic window boxes and planted them up this weekend from ones I had from last year. they are hardy and were out all winter.

potsofmoney_(I_wish)

Hi there,
Also if you go to the Gardeners World website and click on to offers you can get 10 strawberry plants for postage, mine arrived the other day and I only just remembered what they were, it's my first time with a strawberry pot, my mum kindly bought mine, good luck.

Doom_and_Gloom

I grow my strawberries in this http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/0158058 I think the price is reasonable and you can get rather a lot of strawberry plants in them :T .

SAMHP_2

You might like to consider hanging baskets for your strawberries too as these have the advantage of looking nice (with the little flowers and, hopefully, strawberries, trailling over the side) but also gets over the problems of a) strawberries rotting on wet ground if we have another wet summer and b) anything else getting to eat your strawberries at ground level before you do - eg rodents, small children or greedy dogs!
Sam

BigDonut

theGrinch wrote: »

i grow them in plastic window boxes and planted them up this weekend from ones I had from last year. they are hardy and were out all winter.

Do you grow them on windowsills in the window box?

I'd like to try growing some in my window box this year.
Any suggestions onwhere to get a plant from?
or which types of plants to use.

Thanks

staceydaisy

big donut there is a post above saying u can get 10 plants for p+p i think it really is wrth it

angelavdavis

nodwah wrote: »

Well I made my own strawb tower by stacking pots inside each other and using bricks to stand the inner ones on iyswim.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/2564444820/

Great idea Nodwah!

I was wondering what to do with some old pots which I stacked at the side of the shed, but you have got me thinking!