Imagine a summer garden without juicy strawberries. The rich, sweet fragrances of farmed strawberries will make you never buy grocery store strawberries again.
A raised bed is a soil-filled garden box. Most of the many raised beds available for construction or purchase support strawberries.
1 - Start with a good raised bed
Strawberry plants need 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily. Build your beds in a garden area that won't be shadowed by your house, trees, or other structures.
2 - Put Your Bed in Full Sunlight
I love raised garden beds because I can choose the soil. Raised garden beds are perfect for hard clay soil or compacted yards without altering the soil.
3 - Fill With Well-Drained Loamy Soil
Dozens of strawberry types are tailored to diverse temperatures and growing conditions. Varieties fall into three categories: June, Ever, or Day-Neutral.
4 - Choose The Right Variety
Sometimes present enjoyment must be sacrificed for future harvests. Strawberry plants in raised beds often flower immediately after planting.
5 - Pinch Spring's First Flowers
Strawberry mats can form unintentionally. Groundcover benefits from this, but raised bed yields suffer.
6 - Prune Off All Runner
Overcrowding raised beds is another mistake beginners make. Bare root strawberry crowns or plugs look little when planted, but they need lots of area to thrive.
7 - Don’t Overcrowd Your Bed
Raised bed biodiversity is boosted by companion planting, a common organic gardening method. Strawberry-tolerant plants flourish, pollinate, and fight pests.
8 - Use Companion Plant
Raised beds help prevent grass and other weeds from growing. However, weed seeds can still grow in your strawberry patch.
9 - Garden Beds Weed-Free
We wish strawberries would hang from our raised beds like flowers. However, berries typically lay on the soil. Sometimes slugs and other bugs harm berries or cause rotting.
10 - Keep Your Berries Off The Soil
Not to mention, this advice will spare you a great deal of hassle. On raised beds, stay away from above sprinklers at all costs.