Gardening Plant Care : Strawberry Plant Care

[tonyheuangpaseud]

now dis is what i wanna learn lol XD

[virginialikesyou]

WOW Mr Green Thumb are you the saint of growth? I took your amazing advice about strawberries and I can't believe the rate of success I have had!!! I started with only one little half strawberry I got from a fruit salad at work, and it has multiplied into fruit bearing plants in a matter of months! I can't believe I never heard this amazing advice before, and I will be sure to forward this video to everyone I know! I do believe this is truly a breakthrough... thank you... thank you...thanku.

[dublin6w]

no help at all! whats the point in this!!!!!!

[NJHater]

@dublin6w yeah , thats expert village for ya

[AbattoirDream]

strarberries.. strarberries.. they cover them with strarr..

[moy108]

thanks

[andrewmorrison85]

Unless I'm unfamiliar with gardening jargon, you said if it gets really cold outside to put a little ICE on them!? LOL

[PirateOfTheInternet]

I have to agree that this video was a waste of a minute & ten. It seems like most videos from expertvillage and ehow are exactly like this. If I want to watch something that gives me little relevant information, I'll turn on the local news.

[Oasix21]

why are you called mr. green thumb did you stick your thumb up your butt

[deathxe5]

@Oasix21 good one...

[GiClm4]

Been growing my container strawberries since late May. All I have is green leaves. Will I ever get strawberries this season. I don't even have flowers yet.

[iluvmytigber]

...and birds love them...grr i gave up and now give them to the birds on the bird feeder XP

[terracrush1234]

You have told me nothing useful.

[CardClashersHub]

I bought a pot of this for 3.00 today it's halfprice for 5.99 from a gardening centre! not bad..also bought some olive tomoatoes :-)

[crip23walk23]

oh gardening tips he gave us were useless.

[McSwammich]

Do they need water? Gee. . .it seems like that would be something Stan would want to mention. What a waste of a video

[NewOrleansTours]

My Strawberry Plants Produce Like Crazy I Started With a Single Plant and In 4 Months I Now Have Over 200 That Have Grown

[feefoley]

i have heaps of strawberry plants growing they are realy healthy and mutiplying like crazy but no flowers or fruit what can i do?

[Shetasen]

Sometimes if you have too many it will stunt the growth of others.  Pick off some of the smaller plants and either plant them else where or give them to friends worst come to worst throw them out but let them dry out before you toss them. Add a bit of phosphorus high fertilizer to stimulate flower and fruit production as it sounds like you may have more nitrogen, which encourages leaf growth rather than fruit growth.

[sidewayss11]

thanks. i have the same problem of too many leaves and still waiting for fruit. What product can u recommend?

[Shetasen]

Any standard fertilizer will do. just make sure it's for fruiting plants and that the P value is higher than the N value.

[sidewayss11]

I,ve resolved this problem using Seasol. It is a two part fertilizer and soil conditioner utilizing fish emulsion and other things which is organic. Now i have strawberries growing nicely thanks.

[5277407]

Try this: First be sure they are getting plenty of sun, full sun if possilbe and of course water. Secondly, check your fertilizer. Once the plants leaf out, do not use a nitrogen base fertilizer, switch to a phosphorous base fertilizer. This will aid in fruit production. Thirdly, are the bees doing their job? If not, then you do. take a small clean paintbrush and lightly touch each blossom as if you were the bee. Good luck. I hope you get bunches of delicious berries next season.

[raigekiman]

what is phosphorous base fertilizer?

i grew straw berrys in a hot place and water them but somehow as soon they bloom they die any advice?

[5277407]

@raigekiman Look on the fertilizer container. You will see a set of three numbers ##--##--##. Make sure the middle number is the highest number. This is for phosphorus. You can also use compost, like dead leaves, wood chips and organic matter, vegetable peels, egg shells from your kitchen, etc.

[raigekiman]

what aboput prouduce waste like poo

[5277407]

Don't use that in your compost pile.

[PsyogiBottoms]

What do you do about the runners? Should they be removed or planted? How do you get your plant to re-flower? I have one that is huge with lots of runners in a container, but no fruit?

[Shetasen]

If you want more strawberries, replant the runners in the ground once it has establish 3 to 4 leaves pinch them off from the mother plant. Runners is also an indication of alot of nitrogen in your soil which calls for green growth rather than flower and fruit. Add some fertilizer that is high in P rather than N (look on your fertilizer bag) Also, pinch off some of the runners while they are young, this gives more energy for other growth for the mother plant than the daughter plants.

[PsyogiBottoms]

Thanks that was very helpful! ;?)

[fiyabun13]

freakjoshy, the flower turns into the strawberry after it is pollinated by a vector (bumble bee, honey bee, ants etc)

[mzx791]

That is not true, the fruit comes out of flower no matter what, but the seeds it has on (little dots) will grow into new strawberries only if the flowers were pollinated before (dont know if this goes for each fruit or the whole plant).

[freakjoshy]

does the flower dry out and then the strawberries comes out?