Who doesn’t like strawberries? They’re delicious and can be used in lots of recipies. Personally, I like to add them to the yougurt and smoothies to give them a nicer taste and colour. Strawberries with whipped cream are a classic, as well as with melted chocolate. There’s infinite ways of use them. Also to make homemade jam and cakes…
Here, in the garden, we have several plants, and here is how we take care of them:
Frist, they’re planted in a sunny location. We water them regularly, specially now that summer is coming. Ideally we would use drip irrigation, but watering them only at the base (leaving the leaves dry) is also good.
Then we mulch around, to keep the moist in the soil and avoid the weeds growing too close. And, of course, weed and remove dead leaves regularly.
One of the great advantages of strawberry plants is that they reproduce naturally through runners—long stems that grow out and form new baby plants. These can be left to root on their own or transplanted to other areas. So you can easily share the plants with your neighbours!
With good care, they can last for several seasons, and expand as much as you let them!
What’s your favourite way of eating them?