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Then, all you have to do is fill a small plant pot to the brim with compost and water well. First pick a strawberry plant with a healthy runner – it will look like a long horizontally growing stem with the starts of leaves at the end.

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Learning how to grow strawberries from runners is very simple. This makes it very easy to propagate new strawberry plants from your established plants. It all depends on whether they have good and consistent contact with soil. If left to their own devices these can either grow into strawberry plants or can shrivel and die.

At the end of fruiting, remove runners and then plant them out for next season's crop.Established strawberry plants produce lots of runners during their growing period.

Birds love juicy strawberries – to avoid them stealing yours, put up netting to protect your strawberries once they start fruiting.

Five or six plants will fit in a bag when it is lying flat.

If you're short on garden space, strawberry plants grow well in hanging baskets, or you can plant straight into a bag of Tui Strawberry Mix – just remember to make small drainage holes underneath.

Once you've harvested your strawberries, try Ann's Strawberry & Rhubarb Muffins to enjoy your bumper crop.

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Protect your plants from the elements with layers of Tui Strawberry Straw, to help keep their roots moist in the warmer months, to keep fruit off the soil and to help keep your patch weed free. The weather, weeds, pest insects and diseases can all impact on the success of your strawberries. Well watered, well nourished strawberries will have a better chance of keeping insect pests and diseases at bay. For strawberries in pots and containers use Tui NovaTec Premium fertiliser. Tui Strawberry Food is a balanced blend of nutrients to encourage fast establishment and growth of strawberry plants, and make plants stronger and more disease resistant, while increasing fruiting potential for large, succulent strawberries. For strawberries planted in garden beds feed every four weeks during key growth periods of spring and summer.

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Replenishing nutrients used by your strawberries ensures they will grow to their full potential.

Tap the container gently on the ground to settle the mix.įeed your plants and they will feed you.

Fill your container with Tui Strawberry Mix up to 3cm from the top.

Gently loosen the root ball of your plant and position the plant in the container.

Partly fill your container with Tui Strawberry Mix.

Press soil gently around the base of the plant.ĭirections for planting in pots and containers:.

Plant 150mm apart on the top of the mounds.

Gently loosen the root ball of your plant.

Mounding improves drainage and increases air circulation around plants.

Make mounds about 10cm high for strawberries to be planted on.

1 cup) per square metre of garden and mix thoroughly into the soil.

Blend in an application of Tui Strawberry Food.

Tui Strawberry Mix is specifically formulated with extra potassium, just what your strawberry plants need to encourage a plentiful harvest of big juicy fruit.

Add a layer of Tui Strawberry Mix to the planting area.

Before planting your strawberry plants, soak in a bucket of Tui Organic Seaweed Plant Tonic and allow to drain.Plant early in the morning or late in the day so plants aren't exposed to hot sun straight away.ĭirections for planting strawberries in garden beds: Lack of sun will mean little or no flavour for your summer berries. Research shows that planting strawberries in New Zealand's winter temperatures will produce a larger crop over the season, so don't be afraid to plant early.Ĭhoose a spot in full sun to ensure your strawberries thrive. If you are starting with an existing garden bed clear the area before planting and dig in organic matter like sheep pellets and Tui Compost to your soil.Ī good rule of thumb is to plant five strawberry plants for each member of the household. The better the soil, the better your strawberries will grow.

Grow your own this season and you’ll be the family favourite! Plant in garden beds, pots and containers. The great Kiwi pavlova just wouldn’t be the same without a generous topping of delicious red strawberries.

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