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Planting Strawberries: Don’t Make These Mistakes!

July 9, 2020 by Kasi Smith 3 Comments

Do you grow strawberries at home, or would you like to try? Today at Bless My Weeds we are going to talk about the mistakes you don’t want to make when planting strawberries. There are some pretty common mistakes gardeners make with their strawberry plants–but they have no idea they’re making them.

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Making these common mistakes may not ruin your strawberry crop, but they can definitely impact the amount of strawberries you’re able to harvest from your plants. And strawberries are too delicious to sacrifice any of them!

Here are the best tips and tricks for planting strawberries.Never make these common mistakes again with this guide to perfect strawberry plants! Grow your best strawberry crop yet!

Don’t Make These Mistakes When Planting Strawberries

The first common mistake that gardeners make when planting strawberries pertains to the crown of the plant. {Did you know strawberries have a crown?} The crown is located where the plants emerge from the root ball.

Here are the best tips and tricks for planting strawberries.Never make these common mistakes again with this guide to perfect strawberry plants! Grow your best strawberry crop yet! I promise it's worth your time.

You need to plant the strawberry plant so that where the stems emerge is completely visible. If you cover up any part of the crown, the plant will eventually rot and then die. Be careful not to expose so much of the crown that any roots are visible. If any roots are visible, you haven’t covered the plant enough.

Here are the best tips and tricks for planting strawberries.Never make these common mistakes again with this guide to perfect strawberry plants! Grow your best strawberry crop yet! Everyone will want your strawberries.

Another mistake you should not make with your strawberry plants is not mulching them. Strawberry plants require mulch, and lots of it. They love to grow in soil that is continually moist, and mulching is the step that helps you keep the soil from drying out. As you can see from the picture of the strawberry field, straw works as a mulch for strawberry plants. So does bark and dry leaves.

Here are the best tips and tricks for planting strawberries.Never make these common mistakes again with this guide to perfect strawberry plants! Grow your best strawberry crop yet! These tips will change your life.

One of the biggest mistakes gardeners make when growing strawberries is not removing runners. Any “mother” strawberry plant will send out runner plants that are the beginnings of new strawberry plants. A mother plant can handle three runners without depleting the nutrients the mother plant needs to produce berries, so leaving one to three runners on a plant is acceptable. Any additional runners should be snipped off close to the mother plant.

Here are the best tips and tricks for planting strawberries.Never make these common mistakes again with this guide to perfect strawberry plants! Grow your best strawberry crop yet! YUM!

Don’t make these mistakes when planting strawberries, and you’ll be ready to enjoy the best strawberry crop you’ve ever had! For more, check out 7 simple tips for growing better strawberries.

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  1. Cindy Suder says

    May 19, 2020 at 12:52 am

    THANK YOU THANK YOU, we just planted strawberries for the first time and your tips were very helpful!!

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    • Kasi Smith says

      May 23, 2020 at 5:32 pm

      I’m glad they helped you! 🙂

      Reply
      • Arlinda says

        June 13, 2020 at 1:37 am

        Can I use grass clippings as mulching material

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