Today I decided I needed to repot my strawberries which are starting to bloom. They get root bound after a season and you have to shake them up. The plants were a bit ratty looking with lots of leaf debris and dead runners and even some weeds. I took a hori hori knife, one of the gardener's most useful tools, and cut around the plant and lifted it out with a pretty good clump of last years mix. I pulled some of that off then took my knife and loosened up what was left in the pot. (These are pretty good sized pots and took a lot of mix to fill last year). I had made a new mix of peat moss, vermiculite and bokashi mixed a third, a third, a third plus some complete organic fertilizer. I dumped several scoops of the mix into the pots then made indentations and stuck the plants in and pushed the mix down around them. I had twenty-three pots and I made a wheel barrel load of mix and finished the repotting in three hours. I watered the pots then topped them off with a couple of handfuls of biodynamic compost. Will give them some more water tomorrow if it doesn't rain tonight. In the photo the two pots at the top are repotted.
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Repotting Strawberries
Today I decided I needed to repot my strawberries which are starting to bloom. They get root bound after a season and you have to shake them up. The plants were a bit ratty looking with lots of leaf debris and dead runners and even some weeds. I took a hori hori knife, one of the gardener's most useful tools, and cut around the plant and lifted it out with a pretty good clump of last years mix. I pulled some of that off then took my knife and loosened up what was left in the pot. (These are pretty good sized pots and took a lot of mix to fill last year). I had made a new mix of peat moss, vermiculite and bokashi mixed a third, a third, a third plus some complete organic fertilizer. I dumped several scoops of the mix into the pots then made indentations and stuck the plants in and pushed the mix down around them. I had twenty-three pots and I made a wheel barrel load of mix and finished the repotting in three hours. I watered the pots then topped them off with a couple of handfuls of biodynamic compost. Will give them some more water tomorrow if it doesn't rain tonight. In the photo the two pots at the top are repotted.
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I'm glad you mentioned this knife. Is like a scalpel for gardeners. You may also want to wet the ground a little before that, it makes it easier to work
Posted by: installing irrigation systems | October 11, 2010 at 02:17 PM
You really are taking care of those strawberries. I wish i could have time doing like you do. Many thanks for posting it here
Posted by: Edmund | May 29, 2012 at 02:14 AM
I want to put a strawberry on my backyard but i really don't know how i could make a good harvest. Do u have any tips or guide on that?
Posted by: Nurjena | June 12, 2012 at 01:29 AM