Growing strawberries on the balcony: some useful tips

Well, who doesn’t like to enjoy ripe and juicy strawberries, and even grown with their own hands! But people who live in city apartments and have not yet had time or simply did not want to acquire a dacha are deprived of such pleasure. However, the lack of your own garden plot is by no means an obstacle to acquiring a small bed of strawberries. More precisely, small pots and boxes placed on the balcony or loggia. Growing strawberries on the balcony is not at all a difficult process, as it may seem at first glance.

The best options for the balcony are strawberry varieties with small berries. In addition, most types of small strawberries begin to bloom by the end of April and manage to produce several harvests in a row over the summer, and sometimes even bear fruit before the beginning of autumn. Therefore, if you correctly select and combine early, mid-season and late varieties of strawberries in boxes, as well as those varieties that bear fruit throughout the summer, then you can enjoy juicy berries until the beginning of autumn.

At the same time, growing strawberries on the balcony requires compliance with certain rules and consideration of nuances. So, an extremely important aspect for this berry is the amount of sunlight it receives: if possible, pots and boxes with strawberries are best placed on a balcony that faces south, or a balcony where the sun appears in the afternoon.In addition, it is best to place the container with plants on the inside of the balcony so that the strawberries are protected from the wind. And, of course, we must not forget about fertilizing and fertilizers.