How to grow strawberries without soil at home

Preparation for growing strawberries without soil at home

According to the height of the windowsill from the ground, cut 3 steel bars with a diameter of 15mm, fold 50mm horizontally at 90 degrees at one end, and then fold a small 10mm hook at the tip so that it can be hung on the windowsill. Weld a semicircular hook with a diameter of 115mm on the same side of each steel bar every 300mm to support the pipe. Hang the three steel bars on both sides and the middle of the windowsill respectively.

Use a PVC pipe with a length of 2m, an outer diameter of 110mm and an inner diameter of 100mm. Cut off 1/3 of the upper side of the pipe diameter to make the pipe into a box shape. Fill it with culture soil matrix and seal both ends with plastic cloth. Make 3 pipes in total.

Preparation of culture soil for soilless strawberry cultivation at home

Use a construction sieve to sift the decomposed humus soil into fine powder and set aside. Also, keep a bag of peat soil from the Northeast and a bag of perlite aside. Mix 1 part peat soil, 1 part humus soil and 2 parts perlite and put them into the prepared PVC pipe.

How to grow strawberries without soil at home

Plant Israeli R series or Japanese variety Fengxiang strawberry seedlings with soil in tubes at intervals of 20 cm each. When planting, the seedlings should be arched with their backs facing outwards so that the fruits will hang outside the tubes. Hang the three tubes with the planted seedlings on the steel frames on the wall, divided into upper, middle and lower parts.

Newly planted seedlings should be watered once a day for a week, and then once every three days. For watering, you need to prepare the nutrient solution: 10g potassium dihydrogen phosphate + 10g urea + 50 catties of water.

Artificial pollination of soilless strawberry cultivation at home

After strawberries bloom, they need to be pollinated artificially, just dip a brush into the flowers separately.