Regarding birds, I stumbled upon this by accident, but it reduced 90% of bird-eaten fruit: Provide clean water within 20 feet. I discovered that the birds were going after the berries for their water content during dry spells. I left a trash can lid with water close by, and magically the fruit were left alone. It wasn't 100% safe like a net, but darn near for zero cost.
I’m afraid that hasn’t worked for my garden, I have a pond within 5 meters of my strawberries but I still have to net the strawberries from the birds. I also have squirrels pinching them so physical barriers are the only answer.
I use red painted rocks in my strawberry patch to great success. I painted a whole bag of river rock, 355 rocks in a 14 foot by 18 foot bed and the birds and squirrels are both put off! I also keep a large mint plant in there and that keeps the squirrels and rats at bay. Right now I am reorganizing things and the rocks and mint plants are displaced. The squirrels are getting in there now. I need to finish so I can get everything back in place! I have actually seen both squirrels and birds disappointed by a red rock in the strawberry patch. 🍓
I set out beer traps one year and caught several slugs every night. But when I went out after dark with a flashlight, I found hundreds of slugs (really, hundreds) feeding on the garden plants. I hand removed over a hundred a night for several nights in a row, and realized that the beer traps weren't making any difference at all.
you’ve quickly become my favourite garden youtuber! thanks to the expert levels of editing and production, combined with your charming and straightforward teaching style, i’ve already learned so much. 😊 i wish all of my school teachers had been more like you! PS. rosie is such a delightful little companion too! seeing her precious face always brightens my day.
Ours came from 2 cheap hanging pots from Lowes about 4 years ago, 3 in each pot and they are hundreds of plants now and produce every season, they just get real slow in the cold.
I really enjoy these longer more in-depth masterclass videos! Very informative and in one package start to finish. Plus you are very entertaining so it's nice to get the longer videos.
My parents and I grew raspberries last year, and I had heard about painting rocks. It really works! Do it a month before fruit even begins to show. We had squirrels and racoons, and birds chip at the rocks. We started with 9 small red rocks, and by the end of summer there was only two left on our deck, but we enjoyed all our raspberries. If you're growing in raised beds, maybe have an elevated place where you can place the rocks where animals can see it. If not, again, place the rocks VERY early BEFORE the fruits even start. Our only issue were Japanese beetles which ate the leaves, but left our fruit alone. Cheers from /Canada
@@dadsrs6019 strawberries don’t really need companion plantings. They grow and spread out fast and they’ll probably smother anything else you plant in a bed. That being said, there are beer traps and whatnot to help if you have slug/earwig issues. If you do decide to plant flowers in the bed, I’d recommend something that grows taller than them. Your local nursery will probably have lots of options and suggestions for that. Nasturtiums tend to crawl around like strawberries. If you give them time to grow a bit first, it might look good intermixed. If you’re planting flowers in a separate bed, the world is your oyster. From tulips, to roses, to perennial wildflowers. Just go online and pick seeds, or to your nursery and pick whatever you think looks, and smell nice.
I’ve been growing strawberries commercially for 30 years, and while your advice is good - you’d do much better if you plant in a more sandy loam soil mix, avoiding mixing compost into your soil or containers. The strawberries we grow get leaves bigger than my hand, and we use course sand as our primary medium. The more oxygen to the roots, the bigger the fruits! Try it out! Try a bare root chandler or Albion in a 1 gallon container with 1 part course sand, 1 part perlite, 1 part peat moss with a slow release fertilizer on top, compared to the same bare root in a 1 gallon pot with compost and the same fertilizer. Your mind will be blown! Cheers
BIG TIP there, my friend..... The soil is the most critical component. You can easily adjust water, light, and nutrients. But, soil? You're stuck with what you start with. I will be sure to plant my strawberries in a medium that gives the roots some "breathing room." Thank you.
Great Video! I tried the trick which the painted stones last years and it worked great! Just be sure to place them before your strawberries turn red. When they get a taste, they won't be fooled so easily!
I added onions and Borage to my strawberry bed last year. The onions were my best ever and the strawberries tasted amazing. I can't get straw where I live but lawn thatch has worked very well, and it's free, but I applied it too early, so thank you for the tip to wait😊
Thank you for the reminder to plant strawberries alongside garlic. I have just ordered 18 bare root strawberries. I may plant some in pots, too. I have one hugelkultur bed already planted with strawberries, and this was a success last summer, with crushed seashells around the plants to keep off the slugs.
Last year was my most successful year with my one strawberry plant. This year I'm growing more. I'm very lucky with regards to slugs and snails as I have a hedgehog (sometimes he brings a girlfriend and even more incredible, they brought the babies as well) They do a wonderful job of clearing the slimey critters.
Seriously? I am constantly yelling at my hedgehog to get away from my veggies! I put up a fence, but I don't know how long before he figures out he can tunnel under it! @@GrowVeg
I love videos WITHOUT music. You did a great job explaining things and gave lots of info that was very helpful. You also are pleasant while teaching. Loved this video❤
Brilliant, thanks for saying what that little grub was, I’ve had about 30 or so, wasn’t sure what they were 👍🏻 I put them on the bird feeder and they didn’t last long
Great video and I appreciate how you share money saving tips by reusing materials vs. always buying new (cut open compost bags, use grass clippings). I grew Alpine from seed and 4 months later, filled my first Greenstalk planter. It was so fun to go out every morning - spring thru summer - to harvest a handful of tiny but super flavorful strawberries! Looking forward to working in a bed with larger, everbearing varieties. Thanks for great content and Rosie is so cute
Just popping in to say hi, Ben. Can you imagine being in the strawberry capital and being allergic to strawberries? Yep, that's me. I saw this and thought...Let me support Ben. 😆😆
I was a commercial grower and was growing strawberries through black mulch plastic since 88 and my yields tripled so have done that way ever since even now that I only grow for myself I still do it.
@@GrowVeg I did an experiment. Had a triple row on plastic and a triple row just i the soil and I couldn't believe the huge difference. Not only heating the soil but suppressing the weeds and retaining more moisture, works just as well on currants as well 10lbs blackcurrants per bush is a fair yield in my book.
One of the few fruits where the seeds are on the outside of the fruit. I just keep the tops of the berries refrigerated and then place a top slightly buried under seed starting mix, and then I have new plants that I can grow every month or so.
I'm growing strawberries from seed this year because it's been really hard for me to find plants. It's interesting to me that the everbearing varieties that you can find as seed are completely different types than are commonly sold as plants! I can't wait to see how they taste.
I have Mount Everest, Temptation, Rainbow Treasure and Toscana everbearing strawberries in my back garden in containers and two types of alpine strawberries - Yellow Wonder and red Baron Solemacher growing as ground cover under currant bushes, keeping weeds in check. My pest number one is the slug, really hard to control in wet Northern Irish climate. Great video btw.
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I grew strawberries for the first time successfully. The flavour nearly overpowered me, like my mouth was on nice fire. Got my first peaches this year, hoping for a similar event.
I love your videos. They are so very informative. I used straw around my strawberries last year and you’re right, it made a huge difference in fruit waste. Thank you and keep making these super informative videos.
That was an AWESOME strawberry tower tutorial --I’m going to make one …We just had our strawberries in a fabric planting bag and a antique hinged box 🍓 🗃️
So glad you mentioned an alternative to plastic! As someone greatly concerned about plastics finding their ways into our foods, I think it's important that we try to eliminate as much of it from our food supplies!
Thank you Ben. This is a very good video. Today I have built a strawberry tower and put it in my greenhouse. Looking forward to some early strawberries. And you're right - the best strawberries are the ones you grow yourself.
My grandkids and I painted some rocks bright red (maybe a bit larger than a normal strawberry would be) and decorated them with little black spots like seeds. For two seasons, I have had them in my strawberry patch. Before we added them, I think we had quite a bit of birds helping themselves, but I didn’t notice many damaged strawberries last year. Personally, I feel like it works, but I’m going to add netting just in case this next year since I have brand new plants that have established over winter and I hope to get a nice sized harvest. We also have nice sized bird feeders on the far side of the property, so we are trying to train the wild birds that that’s where we want them to eat. 😂
Don't forget water, mostly the birds are not interested in the fruit, but because people usually think of feeding them but never giving them water, they get thirsty and attack the fruit for the liquid.
@ that is great information! We did have a drought this summer, but there are several ponds around us and a creek that runs through the property, so we had not even thought of supplying the birds with water! For people in the suburbs or the city, that would be game changing!
@@lmullens75 I would still appeal to you to set up a bird bath, like with food different birds have different ways they drink water, the creek may to too fast flowing and the ponds may be deep and they'd be afraid to fall in and drown so certain birds may not use them. I found a big reduction in bird damage when I set up my bird bath, even with there being ponds around where I am.
You are the strawberry king! I'm so happy spring is near and watching your videos motivates me to become better at gardening! Cheers! Thank you for your content. Great videos!!
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If you plant runners they will give not so much fruit the first year but the 2 en 3th year they will but normally you only buy strawberries ones after that the runners wil do the work year after year Btw garlic loves raspberries 2 you can also take a big waterpipe put holes in it with a rond drilling bit and fill them up with strawberries or if you don.t have much space vertical or horizontally Same apply s 2 herbs like parsley, chives, oregano and on top thym or dragon and put it straight up like a pole You can also put strawberries in a draining pipe and hang it vertical Did lots off it when I had a rooft erras Enjoy your garden ben
Gosh! Hubby and I were just talking about strawberries at dinner tonight and planning to build our own raised beds. This video also gave us the information we needed to decide on the varieties to plant. Thanks so much!
I grew strawberries from seed last year and they did amazingly - and got lots of fruit as well in the same year. I've never really been a fan of strawberries, but I actually found the ones I grew absolutely delicious - they were a variety aptly named 'Delician' - really recommend giving them a go if you haven't tried them. I've also just ordered some bareroot Strawberry Anablanca 'Snow White' to have a try with - so thanks for the advice regarding planting bareroot. They look very interesting and I'm always tempted by anything that includes pineapple in the flavour profile haha!
I grew up in the country and married a city man. When we were out on one of our first date hikes I ate some wild strawberries and I gave him the jump of his life since he thought I ate a "wild" berry and id immediately have a reaction. Lol 😂Now we have a homestead.
Yes! I planted about 30 baskets 2 yrs ago and here in Oregon they usually produce in mid June. It's mid April and I have berries which in about 3-4 weeks will be ripe. They end around November. No birds, no bugs, and no rotten from sitting on wet ground.
the first year I planted bare root strawberry plants, I could not harvest much strawberries. After the second year I started getting fantastic results :) I think the roots must establish well for a good produce
Such great info. Especially the part about when to mulch and how to avoid slug issues. Even the part about how the shape of the hole depends on what has been eating it. I didn’t know that. Thanks so much for taking the time to share such useful information 👍
Great video, as always.👍 I made the tower last year, it was so easy to put together, but got so many lovely comments on it. I added nasturtiums for a bit of colour.
I just bought my own home, and it came with a planter box fence! Ive been wanting to fo strawberries on two of the walls and im so glad you posted this! I hope to have plenty of berries for myself and the birds 😂
Have you ever had that one plant you just can’t grow? Strawberries for me, BUT I’m not going to give up. Just found this video super informative. I think I have a chance now. 😅
I also added red rocks last year after seeing few strawberries pecked on put around edges most an some in middle an, All strawberries were perfect 😅 guess we have some bent an dull beaks 😅😊😊
This helps with fruit trees too. Put a lot of fake fruit in the tree. You can also get those lightweight highly reflective thermal blankets and hang strips of them from the tree or above it. This scares birds and squirrels. Raccoons are too smart to fall for any tricks that I know of though so find a good recipe and cook them.
Love the red-rocks tip. I'll give it a try. I've had good luck growing them under pine trees. They like acidic soil and the pine-needle "mulch" keeps the berries off the ground. It solved my slug problem. I've moved and no longer have pine trees, but they're around the area. I doubt anyone will mind if I steal some needles from a park for mulch.
We grow Everbearing strawberries but our raspberries are 4 Early season and 3 Autumnal Golden raspberries. Super and 3 kinds of Blueberries and 2 kinds of Haskaps. Oh I have painted just 3 rocks to look like strawberries. I add them to 3 different strawberries gardens, when the blossoms just start coming out. The birds here have left our berries alone since the advent of painted stones. This year I will paint some Haskaps , as soon I grow my first one and know what it looks like😊
The advantage to use these runners is, that they are basically the same plants. So the offsprings will have the same features, while those grown from seeds may have very different features
Well, Ben, this has been delightfully thorough! I appreciate the effort here, and I’m quite amped up over here in Southern Indiana to get started on strawberries!
Thanks, Ben, for another helpful video. I had no idea that it was the slugs -- and not the pill bugs--- making the holes. I've only ever seen pill bugs so wasn't treating for slugs. Will definitely plan on the beer traps this year.
This information about companion plants to strawberries came at just the right time! I scored a dozen strawberry plants potted and ready to go in now but was wondering where to plant them. Now, they will be interplanted in my emerging garlic bed! Thank you!
@@GrowVeg I planted elephant garlic along side of strawberry plants and although the strawberries did well the garlic could not be found and I am wondering if the squirrel got to eat the garlic, I am rather disappointed as never tried this type of garlic before and although I know it is not so strong in flavour as normal smaller sized garlic, I was hopeful of roasting it to try out for my family to experience this. Do you know if squirrels eat any type of garlic?
Thanks for this. I was given a load of plants last summer. I left them to their own devices a bit, so I'll take them more seriously this year. I did plant the runners in pots, so will have more!
Dollar tree stacking 3 hole 6" pots, drill a 1 inch hole in center. Install 1 inch PVC pipe, drill 1/8 hole to water each plant pot ,presto, just add strawberries.
Minimal music, fantastic camera work, charismatic presenter, no thinly veiled adverts. Absolute RUclips perfection!
Thanks so much! :-)
Don't forget his adorable little assistant!
I agree, I always love his videos, all that I've tried from his videos always produce.
I second this. Great video style great presenter
Regarding birds, I stumbled upon this by accident, but it reduced 90% of bird-eaten fruit:
Provide clean water within 20 feet. I discovered that the birds were going after the berries for their water content during dry spells. I left a trash can lid with water close by, and magically the fruit were left alone. It wasn't 100% safe like a net, but darn near for zero cost.
This is a really super tip, thanks so much for sharing this. :-)
What a good idea! Thank you!
Awesome!! I have an excuse to make a bird bath!!! 😍😍🤩😍🤩
Oh man, that’s brilliant and makes so much sense! We live in the desert, I will be sure to keep the birds water full!
I’m afraid that hasn’t worked for my garden, I have a pond within 5 meters of my strawberries but I still have to net the strawberries from the birds. I also have squirrels pinching them so physical barriers are the only answer.
Cheers for the video! Much appreciated. Also, I just called my mom and told her that I completed a Masterclass. She was very very proud of me.
I’m proud of you, too.
May I please have a strawberry?
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The quickest Masterclass that I can remember lol
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Hey What does it mean when strawberry plants leaves are turning yellow
I use red painted rocks in my strawberry patch to great success. I painted a whole bag of river rock, 355 rocks in a 14 foot by 18 foot bed and the birds and squirrels are both put off! I also keep a large mint plant in there and that keeps the squirrels and rats at bay. Right now I am reorganizing things and the rocks and mint plants are displaced. The squirrels are getting in there now. I need to finish so I can get everything back in place! I have actually seen both squirrels and birds disappointed by a red rock in the strawberry patch. 🍓
I tried that too and, yes, they disappointed but birds and squirrels, even our local rats got a "hard" lesson (pun intended).
@@ninemoonplanet I like it! 🤣
Great to hear the red rocks working their magic!
Trots to local dollar store for red paint and driveway for rocks :p
@@oakmaiden2133 🤣
I put small red christmas balls around my plants and it worked.
I set out beer traps one year and caught several slugs every night. But when I went out after dark with a flashlight, I found hundreds of slugs (really, hundreds) feeding on the garden plants. I hand removed over a hundred a night for several nights in a row, and realized that the beer traps weren't making any difference at all.
That's good to know - I think hand-picking like that has the biggest/quickest impact for sure.
a good source of chicken feed!
Makes me think that could be what was eating my Columbian giant blackberries. They got decimated and I haven't found more since
you’ve quickly become my favourite garden youtuber! thanks to the expert levels of editing and production, combined with your charming and straightforward teaching style, i’ve already learned so much. 😊 i wish all of my school teachers had been more like you!
PS. rosie is such a delightful little companion too! seeing her precious face always brightens my day.
That is incredibly kind of you to say. Thank you so much for your support. Happy gardening! :-)
Ours came from 2 cheap hanging pots from Lowes about 4 years ago, 3 in each pot and they are hundreds of plants now and produce every season, they just get real slow in the cold.
I really enjoy these longer more in-depth masterclass videos! Very informative and in one package start to finish. Plus you are very entertaining so it's nice to get the longer videos.
Thanks so much - this is really lovely feedback. Don't miss the carrots masterclass out later this afternoon! :-)
@@GrowVeg you got it! And hello from Kentucky USA
My parents and I grew raspberries last year, and I had heard about painting rocks. It really works! Do it a month before fruit even begins to show. We had squirrels and racoons, and birds chip at the rocks. We started with 9 small red rocks, and by the end of summer there was only two left on our deck, but we enjoyed all our raspberries. If you're growing in raised beds, maybe have an elevated place where you can place the rocks where animals can see it. If not, again, place the rocks VERY early BEFORE the fruits even start. Our only issue were Japanese beetles which ate the leaves, but left our fruit alone. Cheers from /Canada
Great to hear you've had such success with the red rocks. :-)
Do you have any suggestions for red flowers companion for strawberry’s, to help protect from bugs etc, wife loves red flowers.?
@@dadsrs6019 strawberries don’t really need companion plantings. They grow and spread out fast and they’ll probably smother anything else you plant in a bed. That being said, there are beer traps and whatnot to help if you have slug/earwig issues. If you do decide to plant flowers in the bed, I’d recommend something that grows taller than them. Your local nursery will probably have lots of options and suggestions for that. Nasturtiums tend to crawl around like strawberries. If you give them time to grow a bit first, it might look good intermixed. If you’re planting flowers in a separate bed, the world is your oyster. From tulips, to roses, to perennial wildflowers. Just go online and pick seeds, or to your nursery and pick whatever you think looks, and smell nice.
I’ve been growing strawberries commercially for 30 years, and while your advice is good - you’d do much better if you plant in a more sandy loam soil mix, avoiding mixing compost into your soil or containers. The strawberries we grow get leaves bigger than my hand, and we use course sand as our primary medium. The more oxygen to the roots, the bigger the fruits! Try it out!
Try a bare root chandler or Albion in a 1 gallon container with 1 part course sand, 1 part perlite, 1 part peat moss with a slow release fertilizer on top, compared to the same bare root in a 1 gallon pot with compost and the same fertilizer. Your mind will be blown! Cheers
Really top tip there, thank you. I'll have to try this out! :-)
BIG TIP there, my friend.....
The soil is the most critical component. You can easily adjust water, light, and nutrients. But, soil? You're stuck with what you start with. I will be sure to plant my strawberries in a medium that gives the roots some "breathing room."
Thank you.
Great Video! I tried the trick which the painted stones last years and it worked great! Just be sure to place them before your strawberries turn red. When they get a taste, they won't be fooled so easily!
I added onions and Borage to my strawberry bed last year. The onions were my best ever and the strawberries tasted amazing. I can't get straw where I live but lawn thatch has worked very well, and it's free, but I applied it too early, so thank you for the tip to wait😊
Thank you for the reminder to plant strawberries alongside garlic. I have just ordered 18 bare root strawberries. I may plant some in pots, too. I have one hugelkultur bed already planted with strawberries, and this was a success last summer, with crushed seashells around the plants to keep off the slugs.
Last year was my most successful year with my one strawberry plant. This year I'm growing more. I'm very lucky with regards to slugs and snails as I have a hedgehog (sometimes he brings a girlfriend and even more incredible, they brought the babies as well) They do a wonderful job of clearing the slimey critters.
Got to love a garden hedgehog, you're very lucky to have one. :-)
Seriously? I am constantly yelling at my hedgehog to get away from my veggies! I put up a fence, but I don't know how long before he figures out he can tunnel under it! @@GrowVeg
I love Rosie. Such a cutie❤
I love videos WITHOUT music. You did a great job explaining things and gave lots of info that was very helpful. You also are pleasant while teaching. Loved this video❤
Brilliant, thanks for saying what that little grub was, I’ve had about 30 or so, wasn’t sure what they were 👍🏻 I put them on the bird feeder and they didn’t last long
excellent idea - I was wondering what to do with them as I don't have chickens and I noticed Ben's reticence to just crush it.
Get the guy on gardener's world. Love the passion.
Yes .our lovely Monty won't be doing it forever. .Ben is the only guy I would want to see take over Gardener's world .he would be brilliant at it .
Strawberries are a nutritious fruit. 🍇 Thank you for explaining the planting, caring and pest control of the strawberries.❤❤❤❤
The pest control is super useful! Really great info for us new gardeners!
You are so thorough with every part of teaching about a plant. I grow strawberries well because of you. Thank you so so much.❤🍓
Another excellent video, it's honestly just as if I'm watching a professional television presentation. Well done Sir very commendable.
Thanks so much. 😀
I absolutely 💯 love ❤️ your videos. So educational, upbeat and inspiring!👍
Thanks so much, really appreciate it. :-)
I’ve been growing strawberries in pots for years! I mulch with chopped straw. I love to share the runner babies with friends!
I'm so thrilled to discover the Garden Planner is finally easy to use on phones!!!!! Thank you for adding that functionality!!🎉
So pleased you're enjoying this new feature. Happy gardening! :-)
Wear can I get the garden planner?
I find that strawberry pots hold the soil if you put moss around the plant.
Great video and I appreciate how you share money saving tips by reusing materials vs. always buying new (cut open compost bags, use grass clippings). I grew Alpine from seed and 4 months later, filled my first Greenstalk planter. It was so fun to go out every morning - spring thru summer - to harvest a handful of tiny but super flavorful strawberries! Looking forward to working in a bed with larger, everbearing varieties. Thanks for great content and Rosie is so cute
Great to hear the alpines doing so well for you - they're fab little plants.
This is such a comprehensive and easily understandable explanation about growing strawberries. Also enjoyable!
Thank you!
Just popping in to say hi, Ben. Can you imagine being in the strawberry capital and being allergic to strawberries? Yep, that's me. I saw this and thought...Let me support Ben. 😆😆
Haha - very good of you to support me nonetheless! :-)
Loving the vegan mentions! It really makes a difference to us, so thank you!
Love strawberries and grow every year but extra info always welcome, thanks Ben.
I was a commercial grower and was growing strawberries through black mulch plastic since 88 and my yields tripled so have done that way ever since even now that I only grow for myself I still do it.
Interesting to hear this. I guess the extra warmth from the light absorption by the black plastic must make a big difference to growth.
@@GrowVeg I did an experiment. Had a triple row on plastic and a triple row just i the soil and I couldn't believe the huge difference. Not only heating the soil but suppressing the weeds and retaining more moisture, works just as well on currants as well 10lbs blackcurrants per bush is a fair yield in my book.
One of the few fruits where the seeds are on the outside of the fruit. I just keep the tops of the berries refrigerated and then place a top slightly buried under seed starting mix, and then I have new plants that I can grow every month or so.
What a wonderful result! :-)
I'm growing strawberries from seed this year because it's been really hard for me to find plants. It's interesting to me that the everbearing varieties that you can find as seed are completely different types than are commonly sold as plants! I can't wait to see how they taste.
Hope you manage to grow a good few plants this way. :-)
Great and calming video. Perfect for february preparation period :)
I have Mount Everest, Temptation, Rainbow Treasure and Toscana everbearing strawberries in my back garden in containers and two types of alpine strawberries - Yellow Wonder and red Baron Solemacher growing as ground cover under currant bushes, keeping weeds in check. My pest number one is the slug, really hard to control in wet Northern Irish climate. Great video btw.
Nice selection of varieties there. Those slugs sure do keep us on our toes!
I have tried the red rocks trick, and it worked for me!
Thanks. That's enough to get me to try it.
3:21 4:18 4:39 5:10 plastic slug 5:51 straww 6:00 inches 6:13 nursery pot 6:28 n9t too deep not to shallow 6:39 crown 6:55 garlic compainion
7:22 First season 7:26 garlic interplant 7:29 greenhouse autumm big enought to go out greenhouse 7:39 straw spring flower no smother
7:52 container meow hanging inviting to pick them 8:27 cupped pickets
8:32 trawberry tower
8:43 potting mix soil based 50 50 bamboo stick 9:44 split apart abit roots
Great tips
10:57 well watered whilst establishing and dry weather 11:10 get roots down native soil below 11:19 bigher fruit aim your water at the base not wetting fruit molding
11:36 when they flower
11:35 high potassium tomato feed
11:46 early spring fertilizer organic fertilizer
11:54 mulch rqound once grown a but 12:04 nice and belmish 12:08 removed at the end of the season 12:10 tidy old plamts old foliage and dead plants nicely over the winter
12:24 watch out for birds 12:32 nesting 13:15 jar 13:19 SLUGS sharpish angles circle 13:33 beer traps 14:08 vid
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15:47 remove runners if no more 15:59 plants older less prodictive great to replace
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I grew strawberries for the first time successfully. The flavour nearly overpowered me, like my mouth was on nice fire. Got my first peaches this year, hoping for a similar event.
Nice to see the snowdrops in your garden a sure sign spring isn’t that far away
They bring so much joy on a cloudy day!
I love your videos. They are so very informative. I used straw around my strawberries last year and you’re right, it made a huge difference in fruit waste. Thank you and keep making these super informative videos.
That was an AWESOME strawberry tower tutorial --I’m going to make one …We just had our strawberries in a fabric planting bag and a antique hinged box 🍓 🗃️
I love the creative DIY pot idea!
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So glad you mentioned an alternative to plastic! As someone greatly concerned about plastics finding their ways into our foods, I think it's important that we try to eliminate as much of it from our food supplies!
I like your clever tower for the strawberries.
Thank you Ben. This is a very good video. Today I have built a strawberry tower and put it in my greenhouse. Looking forward to some early strawberries. And you're right - the best strawberries are the ones you grow yourself.
oh, no, we're going to see b****y strawberry towers everywhere, now :-(
My grandkids and I painted some rocks bright red (maybe a bit larger than a normal strawberry would be) and decorated them with little black spots like seeds. For two seasons, I have had them in my strawberry patch. Before we added them, I think we had quite a bit of birds helping themselves, but I didn’t notice many damaged strawberries last year. Personally, I feel like it works, but I’m going to add netting just in case this next year since I have brand new plants that have established over winter and I hope to get a nice sized harvest. We also have nice sized bird feeders on the far side of the property, so we are trying to train the wild birds that that’s where we want them to eat. 😂
I hope the birds take the hint with the bird feeders and leave your strawberries well alone! :-)
Don't forget water, mostly the birds are not interested in the fruit, but because people usually think of feeding them but never giving them water, they get thirsty and attack the fruit for the liquid.
@ that is great information! We did have a drought this summer, but there are several ponds around us and a creek that runs through the property, so we had not even thought of supplying the birds with water! For people in the suburbs or the city, that would be game changing!
@@lmullens75 I would still appeal to you to set up a bird bath, like with food different birds have different ways they drink water, the creek may to too fast flowing and the ponds may be deep and they'd be afraid to fall in and drown so certain birds may not use them. I found a big reduction in bird damage when I set up my bird bath, even with there being ponds around where I am.
Santa Maria, CA any roadside stand most of the summer... Best strawberries!!
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You are the strawberry king! I'm so happy spring is near and watching your videos motivates me to become better at gardening! Cheers! Thank you for your content. Great videos!!
So pleased you enjoyed this video. Happy gardening! :-)
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If you plant runners they will give not so much fruit the first year but the 2 en 3th year they will but normally you only buy strawberries ones after that the runners wil do the work year after year
Btw garlic loves raspberries 2 you can also take a big waterpipe put holes in it with a rond drilling bit and fill them up with strawberries or if you don.t have much space vertical or horizontally
Same apply s 2 herbs like parsley, chives, oregano and on top thym or dragon and put it straight up like a pole
You can also put strawberries in a draining pipe and hang it vertical
Did lots off it when I had a rooft erras
Enjoy your garden ben
What a great idea for growing strawberries. :-)
I hadn't planned on growing strawberries this season, but I'm seriously reconsidering my garden plan now!
That's great to hear! :-)
Gosh! Hubby and I were just talking about strawberries at dinner tonight and planning to build our own raised beds. This video also gave us the information we needed to decide on the varieties to plant. Thanks so much!
Great timing! :-)
I grew strawberries from seed last year and they did amazingly - and got lots of fruit as well in the same year. I've never really been a fan of strawberries, but I actually found the ones I grew absolutely delicious - they were a variety aptly named 'Delician' - really recommend giving them a go if you haven't tried them. I've also just ordered some bareroot Strawberry Anablanca 'Snow White' to have a try with - so thanks for the advice regarding planting bareroot. They look very interesting and I'm always tempted by anything that includes pineapple in the flavour profile haha!
Those Snow White strawberries should be delicious once they get going - enjoy!
I was please to find I had already done a few things right as well as learn a bunch of new tips!
Wow fresh and healthy strawberry
I grew up in the country and married a city man. When we were out on one of our first date hikes I ate some wild strawberries and I gave him the jump of his life since he thought I ate a "wild" berry and id immediately have a reaction. Lol 😂Now we have a homestead.
Ha-ha! I am sure you have taught him well! Happy Gardening!
Great information I’ve learned a lot I have tried painting small pebbles red and it seems to work thanks again
Awesome knowledge, thanks for taking the time 😊
Great explanation regarding the slugs, i thought i had a woodlice problem thanks for the tip.
You are inspiring! Thank you😁
Brilliant video Ben… thank you 🤗 and I agree… straw is best…. Strawberries are yummy 😋 🍓
Yes! I planted about 30 baskets 2 yrs ago and here in Oregon they usually produce in mid June. It's mid April and I have berries which in about 3-4 weeks will be ripe. They end around November. No birds, no bugs, and no rotten from sitting on wet ground.
Love these videos so much- good practical clear advice with no waffle. Thank you so much
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the first year I planted bare root strawberry plants, I could not harvest much strawberries. After the second year I started getting fantastic results :) I think the roots must establish well for a good produce
This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much!
A delightful video. I will share with gardeners. Thanks from a Mississippi Gardener. USA
Thank you so much for that, it's appreciated. :-)
very useful thank you
I painted rocks and had zero luck. I didn't get 1 strawberry, well we got one, but my son ate it, I am growing them for him afterall. :)
Others have had success with the painted rocks. Maybe netting is the best strategy this time round.
But are you getting berries? Is there an issue with pollination? Not enough bees?
Such great info. Especially the part about when to mulch and how to avoid slug issues. Even the part about how the shape of the hole depends on what has been eating it. I didn’t know that. Thanks so much for taking the time to share such useful information 👍
Cheers so much Jason, I appreciate it. Hope all is getting on nicely in your neck of the woods! :-)
Great video, as always.👍
I made the tower last year, it was so easy to put together, but got so many lovely comments on it. I added nasturtiums for a bit of colour.
So pleased you've tried the tower - I bet it did look stunning. :-)
I just bought my own home, and it came with a planter box fence! Ive been wanting to fo strawberries on two of the walls and im so glad you posted this! I hope to have plenty of berries for myself and the birds 😂
Beautiful garden.
I love this
Thank you!
Have you ever had that one plant you just can’t grow? Strawberries for me, BUT I’m not going to give up. Just found this video super informative. I think I have a chance now. 😅
Perfect timing as my kids love strawberries ❤
I also added red rocks last year after seeing few strawberries pecked on put around edges most an some in middle an,
All strawberries were perfect 😅 guess we have some bent an dull beaks 😅😊😊
This helps with fruit trees too. Put a lot of fake fruit in the tree. You can also get those lightweight highly reflective thermal blankets and hang strips of them from the tree or above it. This scares birds and squirrels. Raccoons are too smart to fall for any tricks that I know of though so find a good recipe and cook them.
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Great tutorial! Thank you!💕
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Great video. It's spring here in NZ and I'm rebuilding my veggie garden so excited for the season. We have just got a new puppy and called her Rosie!
How lovely to have a new addition to the household. Say hello to Rosie from us! :-)
Dog cuteness all around. 🤭
Love the red-rocks tip. I'll give it a try. I've had good luck growing them under pine trees. They like acidic soil and the pine-needle "mulch" keeps the berries off the ground. It solved my slug problem. I've moved and no longer have pine trees, but they're around the area. I doubt anyone will mind if I steal some needles from a park for mulch.
We grow Everbearing strawberries but our raspberries are 4 Early season and 3 Autumnal Golden raspberries. Super and 3 kinds of Blueberries and 2 kinds of Haskaps.
Oh I have painted just 3 rocks to look like strawberries. I add them to 3 different strawberries gardens, when the blossoms just start coming out. The birds here have left our berries alone since the advent of painted stones. This year I will paint some Haskaps , as soon I grow my first one and know what it looks like😊
Fantastic advice on strawberries, I'm growing a few, great in smoothies
Does replanting mature plants rejuvenate production for them at all or is it best to just remove them?
Old plants are best removed, though you can use healthy old plants to grow new plants by using the runners they produce.
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Thanks Ben, great information!
The advantage to use these runners is, that they are basically the same plants. So the offsprings will have the same features, while those grown from seeds may have very different features
Well, Ben, this has been delightfully thorough! I appreciate the effort here, and I’m quite amped up over here in Southern Indiana to get started on strawberries!
Watch out for dogs and foxes. Perhaps I'll try the painter stones
Thanks for the video. I´m now inspired to try from seed again (something I have continually failed at!).
Thanks, Ben, for another helpful video. I had no idea that it was the slugs -- and not the pill bugs--- making the holes. I've only ever seen pill bugs so wasn't treating for slugs. Will definitely plan on the beer traps this year.
This information about companion plants to strawberries came at just the right time! I scored a dozen strawberry plants potted and ready to go in now but was wondering where to plant them. Now, they will be interplanted in my emerging garlic bed! Thank you!
Nice one! :-)
@@GrowVeg I planted elephant garlic along side of strawberry plants and although the strawberries did well the garlic could not be found and I am wondering if the squirrel got to eat the garlic, I am rather disappointed as never tried this type of garlic before and although I know it is not so strong in flavour as normal smaller sized garlic, I was hopeful of roasting it to try out for my family to experience this. Do you know if squirrels eat any type of garlic?
Thanks for this. I was given a load of plants last summer. I left them to their own devices a bit, so I'll take them more seriously this year. I did plant the runners in pots, so will have more!
Thank you for posting this video, you made it much easier to learn how to plant them and gave me a great idea for a strawberry tower!
Dollar tree stacking 3 hole 6" pots, drill a 1 inch hole in center. Install 1 inch PVC pipe, drill 1/8 hole to water each plant pot ,presto, just add strawberries.
Love these masterclass videos. I wouldn't recommend putting anything with paint (especially fresh paint) in a garden bed soil though
Great tips! I will try these.
Lovely and enjoyable as always~also Rosie is very cute 😍🍓🍓🍓🍓🐕🐕