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This video shows how to plant strawberries in hanging baskets and grow them successfully in a small space. It explains choosing suitable varieties, preparing compost and spacing plants correctly for healthy growth and fruit production.
The guide covers watering, feeding, positioning baskets for sunlight and airflow, and how to care for plants throughout the growing season. It also explains how container growing can help protect fruit and improve harvests.
If you want to grow strawberries on patios, balconies or small gardens, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice suitable for hanging baskets and other containers.
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Let's make our easy fill hanging baskets
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for our strawberries. Welcome to
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Gardening with Ben. And in today's
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video, we're going to be using these
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easy fill hanging baskets from Oakland
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Gardens Limited and filling them with
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strawberries. Now, we've got 300
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strawberry plants cuz we've got 20 of
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these to fill. And I'm going to have
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them in my poly tunnel hung up from
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these bars at the middle of the poly
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tunnel and grow them indoors. Now we've
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gone for a everbearing
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strawberry. So fingers crossed they
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should fruit all the way through summer.
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That is the plan anyway. Hopefully they
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do. As long as we keep taking the
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runners off, they'll keep fruiting all
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the way through summer. So let's get on
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and let's crack on with filling these
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hanging baskets and getting absolutely
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loads of strawberries. this. Now, we've
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ordered the strawberries as dry root
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runners, and yeah, as you can see,
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they're just roots. They're not covered
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in soil or anything like that. So, what
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you need to do when you get these is you
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need to soak them for about an hour to
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two hours. So, that it wakes them up,
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gives them a drink of water before
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planting them in the hanging bucket. So,
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let's leave these to soak for an hour
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before planting them up. So, we put them
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to soak in some water for an hour or so.
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Let them drink, let them wake up, and
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then we'll get them planted into the
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hanging baskets.
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So, we've left them to soak for an hour,
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and yeah, they're picking up. They're
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waking up now. So, now is the time to
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get them planted in the hanging baskets.
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All 300 of them. Absolutely loads. But
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we're going to be on data with
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strawberries. And hopefully they'll be
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delicious.
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Complete a easy filled basket. So, first
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off, we need to put these clips in,
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which are easy enough. You just slot
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them in
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like so. Nice and easy.
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Obviously, if the bigger plants, you put
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your plants in first and then you put
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your clips in.
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As you can see, there's space for 12
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plants. We'll also be putting a couple
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in top if we've got any spare left over.
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We've obviously got 20 of these to do.
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So, that's 15 plants per planter.
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First off, then you need your strawberry
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plants, which help some of that soaking.
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And what I do, I'm getting the bigger
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ones first,
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is we'll put four around the bottom
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first.
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Then we cover them ones with compost.
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Need to make sure they secured in. We
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don't want them falling out.
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So, there we have it. Our first basket
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is complete. So, yeah. Just make sure
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that strawberries are in well and
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fastened in good. We don't want them
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falling out.
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That's one thing that we don't want them
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doing. We don't want them all falling
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out once they're in.
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We need them to take root pretty well.
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So, obviously the last job is just to
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water them. We'll water them all at the
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end.
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We got them done.
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So, yeah.
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And there we have it. That's that one
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done. Like I said, we'll probably put
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some in the top, but we will wait until
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we've done them all. See how many we've
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got left and if we can do it or not. So,
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next up is just get the chain in, which
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is an easy job as well. Just pop that in
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there. Like that.
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And then obviously it needs a good
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water. So we'll put that into place for
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time being and do rest of them.
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And there we have it. We've got them all
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up now and they all look absolutely
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fantastic. Come summer time and all the
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strawberries are growing. Obviously,
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we've got the strawberries popping out
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of the sides, nice and secure. So, yeah,
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keep them watered and hopefully they'll
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grow really well in here. And they
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should be ready earlier than the ones
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outside because it'll be warmer and
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hotter. So, we'll have to keep them
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watered well. We're going to set up
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irrigation as well to keep them watered
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well and to look after them. So, yeah, a
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job well done. We've got some to put in
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the top still. We've still got a lot
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left over, so we're going to put some in
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the top, but we'll do that next week.
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That's a job for next week. Now, we've
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absolutely smashed it today. Absolutely
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loads.
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So, every week we'll post an update on
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how well the strawberries are doing. So
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you can keep along and see how well
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they're growing here in the poly tunnel
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island, how well they bear the fruit
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this year, and hopefully get a good crop
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from them. So make sure you drop us a
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follow to stay up to date with all our
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videos and how well they're getting on.
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Until next time everyone, remember, keep
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smiling, keep shining, and keep
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gardening.
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