Just a tip for anyone planning to grow them: Thinly cut the strawberry skin off (with the seeds) and press the strawberry skin against a paper towel and leave it in the sun for a few days. Once it’s all dried up, you can just rub the seeds off and plant each seed individually. Then you don’t have to separate the little sprouts. I have anxiety and try to separate and transplant stuff as little as possible because that’s where major mistakes can be (and typically are) made. The strawberries grow just as well this way.
Regardless of what people say fake or not the methods you portray will definitely work and it’s great that you’re doing something like this in small environments. It shows how much you can actually do with just your porch and they possibly get somebody else to get the motivation to grow their own food. Keep growing.
In-ground gardens, raised beds, and containers are all excellent growing areas. Give strawberries room for runners by planting them 18 inches apart. Strawberries can be grown in a variety of ways, but make sure they get 8 or more hours of sun and are planted in slightly acidic soil with a pH of 5.5 to 6.8.
I tried doing the exact same thing thing summer on the balcony. The number of berries was around the same, maybe even less, but they were microscopic. The size of a penny maximum. I felt completely discouraged. So much work for hardly anything. Late in summer they got infested with spider mites. I took them inside in October and started to treat them from the mites. In the end only 2 have survived. No visible mites so far. I am planning to take them outside in spring again.
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