strawberries

Hi all!
I have some good looking strawberries. The flowers are just starting to come out on them. Should I feed them or just leave them to get on with it?

 

There is a bit of and art to growing strong healthy strawberries, good soil is, as with most plants, vital. I do not feed mine as I would have already improved the soil earlier with garden compost and a slow fertiliser raked in. A liquid feed would be ok after flowering directly into the soil.

 

I also put in a fertiliser when I put them in (Growmore). I shall look in the book to see if it is slow release or not.
Many thanks for your helpful reply.

 

What do people use as a liquid fertiliser as a rule? Mine were planted in a good compost soil but sure I have read somewhere you can also feed them tomato feed? Is this right though?

 

Absolutely right!

 

Hi, As strawberries are only in the ground for three years, it is normal to put plenty of Farm Yard Manure into the ground before planting. Then in mid winter a feed of Sulphate of potash and seedweed meal at three oz per square yard, so the plant has plenty of time to absorb the feed before fruiting. If you have a frost while the flowers are out, you will lose the crop, if a frost is forecast cover the plants.