Strawberry Problems

Hi - I recently bought some strawberry plants and on Saturday I put them in hanging baskets.

I noticed yesterday that some of the leaves are going brown around the edges and others seem to have big black marks in the centre of the leaves.

They are well watered?

Any idea what could be wrong?

Thanks, Nick

 

Hi Nick
Strawberries don`t like having wet feet, could they be too wet?

 

I am begining to think from what I have heard and from my own experience that Strawberries are not that happy in ANY sort of container....

 

Mine grow beautifully in pots ... I have had some for several years in what's called strangely enough a Strawberry Pot (one of these odd shaped terracotta pots) and others in a concrete trough on either side of a Hydrangea.. I'm in a hot climate and have to consider shade and watering. Just picked one off earlier this evening from one of the ones in the Hydrangea pot and ate it ... :thumb:

I had no problem in the UK with them in hanging baskets in Bucks.

They don't like their feet wet and they don't like heat and they don't like pots ... so what do they like .....

 

Hello Victoria,

What is your secret?

And what type of soil/compost have you potted them in?

Every year I keep trying, but I only get a few "miserable" ones!

Cheers!

 

Well the ones in pots in our polytunnel obviously don't know that. They've just set fruit:yho::D

 

Mine are the same Dave,
I have just two lowly strawberry plants in the tomato hammock. Completely covered with snow at one point but growing with a vengeance since the weather warmed up :wink:

 

hum, mine seem happy enough in the pot..... my friend did say put loads of broken pot in the bottom to drain and water once a week till water comes out the bottom. They are in standard container compost and with water gel mixed in too... um...... they get sun for about half the day (but its early morning until about 11.30/12)

I usually kill everything so its unusual for things to survive with me!!

Ms T

 

Olá Makka-Bakka

Here's the ones in the strawberry pot ....



... and here's the two, one either side of the Hydrangea, offshoots of the ones in the strawberry pot ...



The ones have been in the pot for 3-4 years or more I guess and fruit whenever they feel like it. That's a Rubus phoenicolasius (Japanese Wineberry) coming up out of the middle top which I cut back to ground level several months ago.

The pot is on the kitchen patio and the trough is at the lower part of the garden ... both in filtered sunlight with a little direct in the evening.

They are planted in Du Vitor Substrata Vegetal Fertilizador .... well you did ask ... which is basically vegetable compost with fertilizer added which costs 3,95 Euros / 50 liters.

 

WOW What a show,I must be doing something wrong(not the first time)
I know it can be done I have seen them in containers at the Chelsea Flower Show hanging like hundreds of large red grapes lol.
So it's back to the drawing board on this one........for me anyway.
What soil do you grow them in Dave?

 

I use a mixture of growbag compost and compost from my worm bins. I give an occasional feed with homemade comfrey fertiliser.

 

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Yes I did, now I will trot over and get some!

Cheers again!

 

hi everyone

i've been growing strawberries now for a few years and i also had this problem, but i found that if you cut the leaves off at the base of the stem early enough there shouldn't be any problems:thumb:

 

Hi Chris - I've done the same today. I have a few new shoots so hopefully all will be ok.