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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Kajazy on April 14, 2011, 18:37

Title: Strawberries
Post by: Kajazy on April 14, 2011, 18:37

I've just planted up a planter with a bunch of cheap strawberry plants from Aldi - do I need to feed them? If so, when, how often and with what?

Many thanks!  :D

Title: Re: Strawberries
Post by: katiekate on April 14, 2011, 19:15

Depends what you put in the planter.. If it's good quality compost they should be ok for a while, if its garden soil you could give them a feed with general purpose stuff. I'm making comfrey and nettle tea that will feed my plants in about a month- and it's free!

Title: Re: Strawberries
Post by: realfood on April 14, 2011, 19:18

Try tomato fertilizer as it encourages fruiting.

Title: Re: Strawberries
Post by: green fingers on April 14, 2011, 19:53

I'd agree with feeding tomato fertiliser.  Some of my strawberries are starting to flower and have just fed them.

Title: Re: Strawberries
Post by: solway cropper on April 14, 2011, 23:16

Tom feed for me as well. Anything that produces fruit will appreciate a high potash feed. I have some early strawbs in the greenhouse which started flowering last week and they've had their first feed.