Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. My name is Kevin, the founder of Epic

gardening.com, and today we are talking about those beautiful red berries that everyone loves to grow and eat strawberries.

Specifically, how do we fertilize strawberry plants? For me, one of the ways I know summer has started is when the strawberries start fluting.

Fruiting, sorry. We grow the most common type of strawberry June bearing over here,

but whatever you grow, knowing how and when to fertilize

strawberries is key to getting a massive harvest. So let's get into it. How do we

fertilize strawberry plants? Strawberries in general are a pretty

resilient fruit and not too too hard to grow. But making sure you take care of them is tantamount to getting a really quality harvest.

They need to be planted in an area that gets at least six hours of full sun and in soil that is very well draining.

Needs a lot of organic matter because they are decently heavy feeders and they need to be watered pretty regularly. They don't like moist wet soil, but they also

don't like extremely dry soil, so that just means that you need to water them on a very consistent

basis and watch them carefully.

Finally, how do we fertilize these guys?

They need a lot of nitrogen early on in spring, which is basically right now, and again in late fall, as they send out a lot of runners

and start producing a lot of berries. Ideally, wherever you end up planting your strawberries, you'll have already amended and prepared the soil with some compost or manure, so you don't have to add a lot of extra fertilizer.

Otherwise, if you do need to add fertilizer, you can use a standard 10-10-

or if you're growing organically, there's a lot of different options there as well.

But if you are using a 10 10

10 fertilizer, a good rule of thumb is to add 1 pound per 20 foot row of

strawberries and you'll add that 1 pound per 20 foot row one month after you plant them.

If you have strawberries that are over a year old,

you'll probably want to fertilize once a year after the plant has produced its fruit.

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