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There is no taste like the kind of tart, kind of sweet, kind of watery, kind of fibery taste of strawberries. I hope for your sake you’ve ever eaten them fresh from the garden. Better yet, grown by someone you love.
Did you know stawberries don’t require much space to grow? And that they grow quickly? And that they do well in containers — just as good as planted in the ground?
How to grow them indoors year-round:
You require:
A strawberry plant
Directions:
A strawberry pot
Potting mix
Where are you going to get the plant? What type?
Organic. From a local nursery. If you have to do it the other way, get it from a big chain and non-organic, but maybe you’ll want to make up for this by giving some baby plants to others.
The pot:
Best is a container with drainage.
How to do it:
Put the plant in water for an hour or thereabouts, then plant it in your pot. Your plant is going to have it’s roots pointing straight downward in the soil, remember that. That’s best for it to grow.
Fill the pot first with soil, then insert your plant, and fill in around it. When you reach around 2 inches under the pot’s rim, stop adding. You want the soil up to the green of the plant (called the “collar”). Not the leafs — you want it up to where the plant stem turns green.
Water the plant.
It’s ready. Now it needs nurturing: 6 hours or more of sun each day.
NOTE: Do not overwater a strawberry plant. Check up on your plant daily. You can put a finger into the dirt to make sure it gets 1 or 2 inches of water. Morning is the best time to water. It will better prevent disease than watering at night. The soil should always be moist, not wet.
You can turn your plants 180 degrees so both sides get light. Do this two times each week, just like if you had pots outdoors.
You can eat them as soon as they’re ripe.
