They feel comfortable in this soil

Prepare potting soil in stages - this is how it works

Strawberries have an aversion to freshly dug up Garden soil. Please dedicate yourself to preparing the potting soil at least two weeks before the start of the Planting timeso that the ground can settle. This is how you create the ideal framework conditions for in the strawberry bed:

• In the sunny, warm location the soil two spade dig deep
• Excavation by a Pass-through sieve filter to remove stone, roots and debris
• Enrich the cleaned excavation in equal parts with leaf compost or well-rotted horse manure

Spread 4 to 5 liters of the enriched potting soil per square meter of cultivation area. In addition, sprinkle 30 grams Horn meal per square meter and rake in the natural fertilizer on the surface. Please refrain from adding compost, regardless of whether it was made yourself or bought. It has been proven that garden compost contains plenty of salts of all kinds, which damage the delicate roots of strawberry plants.

Note soil fatigue

All efforts to find the perfect potting soil will come to nothing if there have already been strawberries on the site. Like all rose plants, strawberry plants are also affected by soil fatigue. Please take a break of four years between the individual crops. During this time, no other rose plants should thrive in the bed, such as apples, pears, quinces, hawthorn or whitebeams.

Green manure - prologue for perfect potting soil

Knowledgeable hobby gardeners leave nothing to chance when growing strawberries. As early as autumn, the garden soil is prepared for the next year's planting time. You can do that with one Green manure from domestic plants. Deep-rooted lupins (Lupinus) are predestined, Phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia), spinach (Spinacia oleracea) or suitable seed mixtures whose roots are in the soil loosen and enrich it with valuable nutrients.