As promised in the last post,
here I am with a blogpost on the strawberries I grew some time back. Though, as
I already told you guys, the harvest was not a really great one, and the taste
too appeared somewhat different from the strawberries I've had, with my harvest
not being as sweet, and more of having a sour taste, even though it appeared to
be blood red, and seemed ripe. Though this was my second attempt at growing
strawberries in pots, which, going by numerous pictures in various gardening
groups on facebook appeared to be pretty easy task. Thus, I placed an order for
some strawberry seeds from eBay, and sowed them. What happened after that was
quite unexpected. There was no germination at all, leave alone having those
juicy red strawberries right from my own garden.
The second time, I happened to
stumble upon these at a plants seller around my office where I used to frequent
for my gardening supplies, as this one was quite equipped with almost
everything I could ever need. And as soon as I saw these saplings, I knew these
were strawberries, and bought some saplings home. Here I did my first mistakes
planting strawberries in pots. The small pot I used for planting the saplings,
thinking the physical characteristics of the plant will not need a big
container, and lot of space too will not be required. But was I wrong? Yes I
was. Though, the plant is small, the four saplings that I placed in the small
pot became quite densely packed and this, I believe negatively affected the
growth of them all. Apart from this, a fifth sapling that I planted in a bigger
pot, alone, too didn't grow very well.
Strawberry
saplings, re-planted in the grow bag
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Blooms in the strawberry
plants
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A lesson well learnt, I guess.
This I believe will be of great help when I go in doing this the third time, as
I will be better prepared about the space requirements, sowing time, and other
necessary information about its lifeline, and other important things that will
be crucial for a better strawberry harvest the next time I set upon to grow
these in my rooftop garden.
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Blooms in the strawberry plants |
For now, I will leave you with
some remnants of the entire adventure that unfolded slowly over four-five
months, and one that is still waiting to unfold itself completely with the last
remaining two plants, two of the other three being dead after bearing some
fruits, and a third one dying probably of loneliness of not being planted with
one of its kind, though the expansive real estate it had got should ideally
have it growing better than the rest.
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A tiny strawberry. |
There's finally a hint of red the strawberries |
There's finally a hint of red the strawberries |
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Ah! The final crop. Delicious, juicy, red strawberries, fresh from your own garden. |
Huh! Strawberries
are finally done! What next? Oh, didn't I tell you? There are grapes too, a few
bunches, growing slowly, for some time now, with time that would force me to
eagerly wait for a minimum of a month before I could relish those sweet-sour
black round grapes, fresh from my garden. Who needs an orchard then? More on
grapes, gerberas, moss roses and the wonderful crop of tuberoses, of which I
have introduced a new variety, this year in my garden, and after a complete re-plantation
of the previously planted bulbs, that is doing exceptionally well, in the bag,
I replanted them this year, in the upcoming blogposts, in the coming weeks.
Till then HAPPY GARDENING!
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