Protecting Strawberries in Winter

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Re: Protecting Strawberries in Winter
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2014, 13:34 »
Strawberries seem to do fine in pots and makes it easy to bring inside for an early crop. I've had good crops with plants in 10" pots and also tried 3 around a 12" pot last year which worked fine. These will be brought into the greenhouse in Feb for an early crop. I've also had good results by sticking 8 in a growbag, but they're a bit more difficult to move around. I always feed regularly with tomatoe food when the berries are developing as they soon run out of nutrients in the pots.

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Re: Protecting Strawberries in Winter
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2014, 18:17 »
If you do grow in pots, and intend them to be in the pots for more than a season, make sure you fill the pots with some John Innes compost - probably No2, rather than just multipurpose compost.  The JI has more nutrients and doesn't dry out as much.  I'd avoid growbags for the same reason, personally.
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