The quality of the potting soil plays a key role in the high-yield cultivation of strawberries. In order for the sensitive plants to give you a rich harvest of juicy strawberries, important criteria are important. This guide gives a practical insight into which soil quality your strawberries will particularly benefit from.

Strawberry plants like relatively firm soil without compost

Prepare potting soil in stages - this is how it works

Strawberries have an aversion to freshly turned garden soil. Please dedicate yourself to preparing potting soil at least two weeks before the start of the planting season to allow the soil to settle. This is how you create the ideal framework for the strawberry bed:

  • Dig the soil two spades deep in a sunny, warm spot
  • Filter spoil through a throw-through screen to remove stone, roots and debris
  • Enrich the cleaned excavation with equal parts leaf compost or well-rotted horse manure

Spread 4 to 5 liters of the enriched potting soil per square meter of growing area. In addition, sprinkle 30 grams of horn meal per square meter and rake in the natural fertilizer superficially. Please refrain from adding compost, regardless of whether you made it yourself or bought it. It has been proven that garden compost contains plenty of salts of all kinds, which damage the delicate roots of strawberry plants.

Note soil fatigue

All efforts to find the perfect potting soil are in vain if there were already strawberries at the location. Like all rose plants, strawberry plants are also affected by soil fatigue. Please insert a cultivation break of four years between the individual crops. During this time, no other rose plants should thrive in the bed, such as apples, pears, quince, hawthorn or whiteberries.

Green manure - prologue for perfect potting soil

Knowledgeable hobby gardeners leave nothing to chance when it comes to growing strawberries. As early as autumn, the garden soil is prepared for next year's planting season. This can be achieved with green manure from native plants. Deep-rooted lupins (Lupinus), phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia), spinach (Spinacia oleracea) or appropriate seed mixtures are predestined, the roots of which loosen the soil and enrich it with valuable nutrients.

tips

Monthly strawberries are perfect for sowing on the windowsill. The ideal time window is from the end of January to mid-March. The perfect substrate for sensitive seeds and sprouts is coconut soil. The effort is worth it, because strawberries grown behind glass blossom and bear fruit in the first year.

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Vegetable garden