How to Plant and Care for Container Strawberries 🍓🍓🍓

Strawberries are one of the easiest fruits to successfully grow in containers! Learn how to plant and care for container strawberries and enjoy sweet, sun-ripened berries no matter where you are gardening. Strawberries can easily be grown in small pots or large planting containers- you can choose your container to suit the space you are growing in. 🍓🍓🍓

*Container size- 1/2 to 1 gallon pot (6-8" pot) per 1 plant
*Space plants 10-12 inches apart in a larger container
*Strawberries must have good drainage- select planting media that is well-drainage
and make sure your container is permeable or has drainage holes
*Optimal planting media is rich in organic matter, excellent drainage and just
slightly acidic- with a pH of 5.5-6.5
*Strawberries will have the best yield & flavor when planted in full sun, but can be
grown in part shade
*Feed plants with an all-natural, balanced fertilizer. I used a 4-3-4 in this video.
Avoid excess nitrogen as this leads to excess foliar growth and soft fruit.
*Provide with at least 1" of water per week

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00:00 Intro
00:32 Container Size
01:07 Planting Media/Soil Type
02:37 Sun Requirements
03:09 Planting
04:00 Feeding
04:46 Watering
05:11 Growing strawberries as annuals versus perennials

I hope you will try growing strawberries in containers this year!
#zone6gardening #containergardening #ohiogardening

[auraberglund]

You are my absolute favourite gardener and person on YouTube! Everytime I want valuable content and advise for my garden I run to you. I can't understand why you don't have a million subscribers, but hopefully one day people will appreciate how much this channel gives back 😘❤️

[lildevil]

Never thought I'd need these container videos, but we moved and we're in a rental now for the first time in over a decade. These are so helpful!!

[islynwashington]

Thanks for sharing my dear friend my first time growing strawberry 🍓

[lukesoto]

I just got strawberry plants and Im learning how Thanks for your help!

[Jenantv]

What you are doing by informing us is priceless. Especially with the food shortage crisis we find ourselves in. God bless you
Michigan zone 6 ♥️

[melodeeruley]

Growing strawberries for the first time ! Thank you for your info.

[iguesi]

This brings back delightful memories... I think I was 14 or 15 sitting on the planting machine behind Mr. Pringle's tractor, placing a strawberry in the rubber "grippers" and watching the wheel spin and plant them in the neatest of rows one after another. We came back in about a month and weeded the entire bed. But I don't recall ever eating a strawberry from this field. I do recall my friend getting stung 3 times by bees as they were returning to their hives at dusk. And the apples from Pringle's orchard were YUMMY!

[ruthannecoro]

I went off to get blueberry pants and came home with strawberry crowns and asparagus crowns 😆😝 I love that splinter set up!

[tan]

Your timing is perfect...lol! I am planting out strawberries, thornless blackberries thornless raspberries, and blueberries! And hopefully building out another bed or two. Have a great weekend!

[veragauthier]

You are absolutely right. I rototilled my huge patch under one year and to my surprise the smallest runner plants came back and they produced like crazy. In my observation, the second year plants do not produce at all. But, they are great for runners!

[krismatthieu]

Hi Jenna! If you know any local cattle farmers ask them for the mineral buckets. They make excellent raised planting beds . They throw them away 😱. I just drill holes a few inches above the bottom and cover with mesh.

[rickershomesteadahobbyfarm]

I had to replace the kiddy pools around my property bc some of them were starting to leak. I ended up cutting the bottoms out of the bad ones and planting in them. I filled them with dirt, potting soil and then I planted strawberries and corn in them. I’m pretty happy with the outcome and my animals are pretty happy with their new pools.

[meiliprice]

I've struggled alot with container strawberries the last few years. Would love to see a video on how to diagnose/deal with common issues like underwatering, overwatering, nutrition issues, etc. Thanks for making such useful content!❤️

[jacksprat]

Very nice video. I appreciate you get right to the subject without a lot of introduction, stories about your dog, and minutes devoted to not much involved with the subject. Of course good information is importatnt and I got alot of that right off, plus a good demonstration to top it all off. Thanks! (P.S. I like dogs, but they have little to do with growing strawberries.)

[Peekpony]

Really Clear and Concise Instructions !! She is a very good and clear Speaker !! Just bought some Plants this morning !! Great Video !! Subscribed !!

[glennasmith]

You help me more in a short video than anyone else has in her hour long vera Dios. Thank you very much

[notoriouskelly]

Wonderful information - thank you, Jenna!

[CBsGreenhouseandGarden]

Awesome tips Mrs. Jenna. Looking forward to seeing those bags booming this season. Stay safe and have a great weekend!

[pgjc]

Welp...You helped me with my blueberries, and now I somehow want to plant strawberries lol.

[christophergetchell]

I'm glad I saw this today! I have some strawberries that had quite a bit of fruit last year in a ground level bed, but the hungry rabbit living under my detached studio/office decided that they looked like a delicious breakfast and I think I managed to only sneak one in for myself. I might actually consider building something like this out of some sort of masonry to help keep them out of reach!!!