Not everyone has a piece of land for growing strawberries. This culture can be grown in various containers or pots at home or on the street. Growing strawberries in pots in several tiers in greenhouses or greenhouses can significantly save the space of the heated room.

Can strawberries be grown in pots?

The depth of the strawberry root system is small, which allows you to place the culture in a pot. On the street in the tank you can plant any favorite variety. The main thing is to choose for him a container of comfortable sizes, suitable soil and a sufficiently lit place.If you want to not only get delicious berries grown in a pot, but also make a decorative element out of the planting, then you should give preference to repair ampel strawberry varieties. Some of them look very decorative, bloom for a long time and, to everything else, give good crops.

To grow a house, you need to choose a variety of neutral day. This will allow you to get sweet berries year-round.

Important! In 100 g of strawberries there is 98% of the daily intake of vitamin C. Due to its composition of nutrients, this sweet berry reduces «harmful» cholesterol in the blood and improves cardiovascular activity.

Features of the growing method

The method of growing strawberries in pots has recently become increasingly popular. It has a lot of advantages compared to growing on beds.

Advantages

• This method of cultivation may be of interest to the following:
• Cultivated plants in pots can become a beautiful and interesting decor. Of these, with the help of various devices, it is possible to make beautiful vertical landscaping. You can use a planter or structure for laying out a pyramid for this, decorate a fence or rest area. A hanging planter with flowering ampel strawberries can be a decoration of a balcony, kitchen or local area.
• Save space. If you have a shortage of sunny places on the plot, then the pots with strawberries can be placed on a sunlit paved area, put on a shelf attached to a fence or wall, put on the roof of the garage. The most economical multi-tier accommodation options.
• Convenience of movement. Such "beds" can be easily moved from one place to another. For example, during the scorching sun and heat, it is convenient to transfer the pots to a less hot place. During the cold snap, they can be placed indoors and thereby extend the period of obtaining fruits.
• From a strawberry bush growing in containers, it is more convenient to collect fruits, especially if you arrange them at a level that is comfortable for you.
• Berries do not touch the ground and as a result are less prone to spoilage and pollution.
• The ability to create better conditions. A pot with a plant can be put in place with the desired level of lighting, removed from the street during hail or excessive rainfall, moved to a warmer place, changed soil.

Disadvantages

• The method of growing strawberries in a container has some disadvantages:
• It incurs material costs. This method requires the acquisition of suitable containers and devices.
• Grade. You will have to carefully approach the choice of planting material with certain varietal features. Indeed, not all varieties are suitable for year-round breeding at home or for vertical gardening.
• Labor costs. It will take time to plant, transplant and more frequent watering. The soil in containers dries out faster and depletes than in the beds.

Did you know? Strawberries contain antioxidants and ellagic acid, which regulates the cell cycle and strengthens the immune system, which makes its consumption a prophylaxis of cancer.

The best varieties of strawberries for planting in pots

For growing in containers, the best choice would be the repairing varieties of strawberries that bear fruit all summer and until frost. At home, on the windowsill, you can use neutral daylight varieties that lay flower buds year-round.

The most promising repair varieties for growing in pots are as follows:

1. Suprim. Great for growing in an apartment. It does not require pollination, bears fruit year-round and is a kind of neutral daylight. Productivity and taste are also on top. The variety is winter-hardy and drought tolerant.

2. Homemade delicacy. This hybrid allows you to grow in small pots. Gives a lot of small fruits of great taste. Drying of the soil leads to even greater fading.

3. Moscow delicacy. A high-yielding hybrid of neutral daylight by Dutch breeders. It yields from one bush a yield of up to 1.5 kg of berries weighing 15–35 g.

4. Felice. It looks very decorative, blooms for a long time with bright burgundy flowers. This neutral day variety gives good yields of fragrant relatively large (15–20 g) berries with a strawberry flavor.

5. World debut. Continuous flowering of pink flowers on high peduncles and fruiting from May to stable frosts. Fruits weigh up to 35 g and have a pronounced smell.

6. Capri. A variety of neutral daylight Italian breeding with excellent sugar accumulation. It has sweet fruits even in the stage of technical ripeness. The variety is large-fruited and productive, resistant to drought, frost, disease.

7. Temptation. Harvest hybrid of neutral daylight with a wonderful taste of fruits. Blossoms and bears fruit continuously. Good builds a mustache that blooms without being rooted. Suitable for growing as an ampel plant.

8. Lyubava. Large-fruited productive variety with long fruiting. Good for vertical gardening.

9. Wima Rina. Strawberry on a neutral day, yielding from late June to frost. It can be grown on a windowsill and as an ampelous plant, tolerates drought and heat, adapts to different conditions. The berries have a great taste with a pleasant aroma.

10. Selva. A neutral day variety with long mustaches that bloom quickly. Peduncles hold fruit well. Suitable for flowerpots and vertical landscaping. Begins to bear fruit early and continues until frosts, with several waves of ripening berries.

11. Queen Elizabeth. This is a large-fruited productive variety of sweet and sour taste. It produces crops almost continuously. Too small a pot will be unacceptable for this variety, since the variety has a developed root system.

12. Albion. A neutral day variety from the USA with continuous yield and powerful peduncles that do not bend under the weight of the fruit. The flesh of the berries is dense, sweet. The variety is resistant to drought.

13. Monterey. A descendant of Albion, possessing the same virtues, but having a higher yield and quality of fruits.

Did you know? Despite the sweet taste, strawberry fruits contain few sugars and have a low glycemic index (25), contain few calories (32 kcal / 100 g). The consumption of this berry is acceptable for diabetics and it will not ruin the figure.

Preparation of pot, soil and planting material

For growing this sweet berry, ordinary flower pots, flowerpots or oblong-shaped plastic containers are well suited. In order to save money, you can use buckets from mayonnaise, as well as 5 liter plastic bottles, in which the upper part is previously cut off, as a landing tank. You can decorate such pots to your taste - paint, stick patterns from beads, shells and other materials suitable for decoration. The dimensions of the container for planting can be different and depend, first of all, on the number of planting material. A suitable volume is 3–10 liters.Capacities for landing must have holes for draining excess fluid.

If they are not, then the holes must be made independently. The roots of the plant go 25-30 cm deep into the soil. Therefore, the capacity for landing should be a little higher than the specified dimensions. It is advisable to choose a pot of light tones, since the dark color attracts the rays of the sun, and the lower part may become excessively hot.

Since the amount of soil is limited when growing this plant culture in a tank, care should be taken to ensure that the soil mixture is nutritious. In this case, the following composition is well suited - soddy soil and humus in equal proportions. For every 5 l of this mixture add 2 tbsp. l nitroammofoski. To disinfect and prevent the appearance of rot, a couple of days before planting material is planted, the prepared soil is watered with a potassium permanganate solution.

Planting material that is bought or dug up in the fall from their own beds should be prepared.

1. You need to inspect every bush of strawberries for the presence of disease and damage.
2. Choose only strong and full sockets.
3. Planting material is placed in a pot of soil and rearranged for 2 weeks in a cool place (basement, underground). This causes a state of rest in the plant culture. This procedure allows the seedlings to relax.

The technology of planting strawberries at home in pots in the winter

Planting strawberry bushes is as follows:

1. The bottom of the pot is lined with a drainage layer of expanded clay or small pebbles.
2. Then conduct inspection of the rhizomes of planting material. If they are too long, they are shortened to fit neatly in the pot.
3. I put a plant in a dug hole, carefully distributing the roots and fill it with soil. The earth is tamped a little.
4. At the end, the landing is watered. When moisturized, it is advisable to use a growth stimulator.

Further crop care

To get a good harvest, you need to organize proper care for strawberries:

1. Lighting. Planting is best put on a well-lit place in the house, best on the southern windowsill. In the cold season, when the daylight becomes short, you need to take care of additional lighting up to 12-14 hours of daylight. For this purpose fluorescent lamps are well suited.

2. Watering. It must be ensured that the earth does not dry out. Watering should be regular and plentiful enough. Water for irrigation should be settled and room temperature.

3. Room temperature. The optimum temperature should be at the level of + 20 ... + 22 ° C.

4. Top dressing. During the flowering and ripening of the berries, fertilizer must be applied. The procedure is carried out 1 time in 14 days. For this purpose, organics and mineral fertilizers are used. As a natural fertilizer, a 1:20 manure solution or an ash mash is suitable. It is good to use ready-made complex fertilizers, which can be purchased at a store, for example, Kemira Lux. During flowering, it is good to carry out foliar top dressing with a solution of boric acid.

5. Loosening. To improve the flow of moisture, nutrients and oxygen to the root system, you need to regularly loosen the soil.

When growing strawberries in room conditions, it is necessary to carry out artificial pollination if the planted variety is not self-pollinated. For this purpose, you can use the fan. It is included in the direction of planting with strawberries. Airflows transfer pollen from one plant to other specimens. This process can be carried out manually using a brush with soft bristles. It is carried out from one flower to another.

When a warm period sets in, the pots can be taken out into the courtyard, loggia or balcony. When outdoors, pollination occurs naturally through wind and insects.

Diseases and Pests

When growing strawberries in pots, you may encounter some diseases.

Particularly dangerous for this crop is gray rot. Infection with this fungal infection often occurs through soil or planting material. Therefore, the soil must be decontaminated, and seedlings well inspected before planting. The disease is detected by the appearance of a grayish plaque and rotting berries. To combat gray rot use "Fitosporin" or "Fito-plus."

Another common disease is white or brown leaf spot. White spotting is manifested in the form of reddish spots with white spots on the leaflets, and brown spotting is found on brownish spots on the leaves, the edges of which dry. In this case, it is necessary to use the drug "Fitosporin" or "Zircon".

When outdoors, strawberries can be invaded by pests. Sometimes the lesion occurs through the soil.

Consider the main insect pests:

1. Nematode. These small worms have a size of up to 1 mm. They feed on the juice of plant crops, causing harm.

2. Weevil. The bugs are about 0.5 cm in size. They eat out color, leaflets.

3. Penny slobber. A small insect can be detected by saliva, similar to foam.

4. Spider mite. Such a small pest is detected by the presence of the thinnest cobweb.

To control insects, the preparations are used: “Karbofos”, “Fitoferm” or “Fosbetsid”. You can apply alternative methods - spraying with tobacco-soap, garlic or onion solution. Such treatments are good for preventive purposes.

Important! Excessively affected specimens should be removed from containers and disposed of.

If you take measures at the first sign of defeat, you can save the crop. A pot with strawberries that has been affected by the disease or pests should be immediately set aside separately from other plants, and then measures should be taken to eliminate the problem.

Strawberries are suitable for growing in containers. It can be cultivated in flowerpots, flowerpots, vertical constructions and in an ordinary flower pot on the windowsill. To do this, choose the appropriate variety, the required size of the tank, nutritious soil mixture and ensure proper care.