Article: Edible Landscaping – Growing Alpine Strawberries from Seed for Your Garden Beds and Containers: best soil composition for container strawberries
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I think any good quality, well-draining soil-less mix would be a good choice. You want something that will hold some moisture but also drain freely and not compact -- same as for most container plantings. I like Pro Mix, with some polymer moisture crystals added. :-)
This little plant is seen growing in the AeroGarden hydroponic device. This summer I will plant a tower with a soil-less mix (containing additional polymer crystals) and grow them out doors.
Thanks for your advice
I'd wondered if alpine strawberries would do well in an aerogarden... looks like they do! Thanks.
Have fun with your tower, and search the DG articles for "strawberry pot" to find some great advice on contructing a watering device to use in the center of a strawberry pot or tower (length of drilled PVC pipe to distribute water to all levels).
I would be interested in aeroguy's technique for growing alpines in an aerogarden. I have tried it repeatedly from seeds and frin plants that the soil was washed off. I always lose them from colar rot. The media is just too moist at the surface in my estimation. Any advice would be helpful.
As for best soil mix, I used to use ProMix BX before I switched to organic. I now use the organic Sungro mix. I add about 10% by volume of worm castings for seedlings which works great. I also use castings tea at most irrigations with excellent results.
I tried the towers years ago. All sorts including drilled holes in pcv pipes. Make sure and attach the tower to a structure with a swivel or somehow make it so it can be turned. The plants on the back side suffer from lack of light if they're not turned regularly. If the tubes are too tall the plants at the bottom suffer from too much moisture and too little nutrition. Alpines don't do well in my opinion in tubes. They grow by underground stolons. The more mature the plant the more stolons. The more stolons, the more fruit. Anything that restricts the size of the plant reduces the production. A number of years of production trials proves this out.
