Homemade strawberries - grown from seeds or indoor strawberries

Strawberries on the windowsill or on the balcony are not a myth or an ornamental plant. It is quite capable of growing to the size of a bush and also bearing fruit! If you choose the right variety, illuminate the plant with lamps and organize competent care, you can collect a good harvest of delicious berries. Details in this article.

Homemade strawberries

The most frightening thing about the rules for growing strawberries at home is the need for artificial light. The fact is that for successful growth, the bushes require about 12 hours of daylight hours. When growing a berry at home or on a balcony, it is not easy to provide such a duration of lighting, you need to additionally highlight it with phytolamps.

Still life with strawberries

Otherwise, as experienced gardeners say, there are no difficulties in breeding. Moreover, there is a huge plus in highlighting - you can grow strawberries at home all year round.

You can also try growing a strawberry bush without lamps, but it is better to start in March, so that there is as much natural light as possible. At the same time, whether the plant will bear fruit in this case cannot be guaranteed. But there are certain chances, especially in regions with a warm climate.

Strawberry - grass or shrub

Many novice gardeners are interested in two questions:

Homemade strawberries

• Are strawberries a shrub or a herb?
• Are strawberries a bush or a herb?

Due to the fact that the roots of the plant do not penetrate deeply into the garden bed, and shoots with leaves do not hibernate, strawberries are classified as grass. The question of strawberries is solved in a similar way - despite the fact that many people assume that strawberries are a bush, this is not the case. Strawberries are herb too. For exactly the same reasons. Accordingly, a strawberry or strawberry bush can be grown at home.

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Strawberries at home from seeds

To grow indoor strawberries, you need to decide on a place. A suitable place should be with good lighting, there should be enough space for the entire bush.

Strawberries reproduce well by seeds, seedlings and tendrils, which are formed on the shoots. Planting with seeds allows you to get a healthy and high-quality plant, so this article will focus on this method.

The seeds are very small and a lot of hassle. Therefore, it is important to choose the right place, soil, seed preparation and sowing timing.

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Sowing dates

Sowing dates are often determined by the type of strawberry, but there are general rules.

Most often, strawberries at home begin to grow in early February. But earlier sowing is also allowed.

Soil preparation

The second stage of preparing for planting strawberries is perhaps one of the most important. The yield of a strawberry bush directly depends on the choice of soil.

The earth must have the following properties:

• friability;
• ease;
• simple composition.

Ripe strawberry with seeds

It is believed that the best option would be to mix garden and forest land.Add some sand for crumbling.

There are a couple more options for a suitable soil:

• sand + peat + vermicompost;
• sand + peat + turf soil.

The prepared soil mixture must be disinfected. To do this, it is placed in the oven for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees. But this should be done in advance, 1-2 weeks before sowing.

This method of preparation will rid the soil of pests, which will help strawberries to avoid diseases in the future.

Sowing strawberry seeds

Planting strawberry seeds at home is done in a container or pots. If these containers were previously used for other plants, they must also be disinfected.

Step-by-step instructions for sowing at home looks like this:

1. It is necessary to fill the container with soil and spill well.
2. Next, the seeds must be carefully spread out on the ground using, for example, a toothpick. It is not required to fill up the seeds, as they need light for germination.
3. Spill gently from a spray bottle so as not to wash the seeds off the spot.
4. Then cover the container with foil, a transparent bag or glass. Leave small openings for air intake.
5. Place the container in a well-lit place.

Strawberry bushes

For better growth and more fruits, strawberries must be dived. When the plants have 3-4 full-fledged leaves, they must be transplanted into separate containers. For example, in cups.

It is imperative to make holes in the containers and lay drainage on the bottom (sand, pebbles, brick split into small particles). Next, the earth is laid out and seedlings are planted in the middle.

Strawberry bush in the garden

Planting from seeds in peat tablets

There is a method that simplifies the first steps - planting in peat tablets.

1. The tablets are placed in a container and poured with boiling water.
2. Wait until the water is completely absorbed and the peat swells.
3. One seed is planted in one tablet.

Such a container must also be covered with a film and removed to a well-lit place.

They are waiting for germination, and then they plant the bush in separate pots.

Growing strawberries at home all year round

Growing strawberries at home all year round is not a myth at all. To do this, you just need to use phytolamps when the daylight is short and grow strawberry bushes in different containers.

The plant needs to provide 12-hour daylight hours. In this case, there will be no obstacles to full-fledged growth. Strawberries will be able to bear fruit in any season, that is, all year round.

Some owners, in the summer, plant the bushes in the garden in the open ground, and in the fall they return them to their home pots. In a garden, the berry needs less care, so this option is quite popular.

Strawberry variety Pineapple

Strawberry Pineapple or in another way pineapple strawberry is white in appearance and with a slight pineapple taste.

This variety is bred in South America and is very disease resistant. It can also be grown at home.

There are not so many differences from ordinary berries. Here are some of the characteristics:

• unlike other varieties, pineapple is capable of developing both in the sun and in the shade;
• the berries are white with red seeds;
• it is a very hardy plant;
• fruiting period from May to July;
• grows in all regions of Russia and is not whimsical in courtship;
• the berry is considered a dessert and is often used in decorating cakes, cupcakes, and so on.

Strawberry variety Pineapple

If we talk about the appearance, then the plant is no different from ordinary strawberry bushes. It has the same leaves, shoots, flowers and only berries of a different color.

It is definitely worth planting for the sake of its unusual color.

Features of growing remontant strawberries at home

Strawberry repairing allows you to collect more than one crop, it bears fruit from the very beginning of the warm season until frost. The peculiarity of this variety is that it blooms without interruption, respectively, the berries are formed constantly.

There are several types of repairing:

• Small-fruited. Small berries, taste like wild strawberries.
• Large-fruited. It has large berries that are often confused with strawberries.

Care and planting are similar, so these varieties can be grown at home.

Suitable for home growing varieties of remontant strawberries:

• Ali Baba. The variety has powerful bushes and is fertile. Disease resistant and not whimsical.
• Forest fairy tale. The variety has a very high yield in all conditions.
• Rügen. Dessert variety with early fruits.
• Alexandria. Very decorative bushes and abundant flowering, which allows you to collect a lot of berries.

In home cultivation of strawberries, it is worth using different varieties. Of course, growing a full-fledged bush is not so easy. It is necessary to follow all the rules of agricultural technology, to supplement the plant with phytolamps. However, the process itself can be very exciting. And the harvest harvested on the balcony is definitely joyful and is the best reward for a job well done.