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This video explains how to grow strawberries in hanging baskets and care for them properly. Learn how to choose suitable varieties, prepare compost and position baskets for healthy growth.
The guide covers watering, feeding and maintaining strawberry plants to encourage strong roots and reliable fruit production. It also explains how protected growing spaces can improve plant performance.
If you want to grow strawberries in a small space, this video provides practical advice suitable for hanging baskets, patios and covered growing areas.
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Welcome to the Poly Tunnel Diaries
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episode three. If you've not been
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watching along, make sure you go and
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check out the other Poly Tunnel videos.
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And every week we're showing you how
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it's progressing in here as this is the
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first time I've fully properly grown in
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the Polyon. I've grown in the past grown
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tomatoes and peppers and chilies and
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allergy, but I've never used it to its
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full potential. Now, this year we gave
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it a massive revamp. We cleared it all
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out. We redug it over. We put new
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flooring down and we have got raised
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beds in here as well and we're going to
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use it to its full potential and we're
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going to grow all year round in it.
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Fingers crossed. That is the plan. We're
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going to be starting off in March with
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sewing in here and then sewing all the
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way through the year and hopefully
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growing all the way through the year as
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well in winter as well. So, it's going
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to be a learning journey for me because
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I've never grown anything through the
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winter apart from onions and garlics.
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So, we're going to give it a try and see
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how well we get on. Whether it's a
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failure, I don't know. Whether it's a
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success, hopefully. But we'll share all
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the journey along with you. And I'll
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show you the honest bits as well,
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whether something fails cuz I'm an
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honest gardener. So, let's have a look
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and let's see how it's looking.
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So, these are the Oakland hanging
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baskets which we have got. We got all
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these hanging baskets from Oakland
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Gardens and these are absolutely
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brilliant. They've got about 15 plants
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in each one. Probably put too many
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plants in, but oh well. We're going to
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give it a try and see how well they get
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on. Now, these are everbearing
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strawberries where they'll fruit all
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summer. As long as you keep pinching out
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the runners, they should keep fruiting.
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So, hopefully we'll get an abundance of
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strawberries in the poly tunnel. And as
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you can see, after being planted for 3
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weeks, they are coming along. They're
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growing. They're taking root. and
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they're showing signs of new life. So,
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that is an absolute bonus. It's going to
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be a warm week this week. Temperatures
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topping 16°, so it could get up to
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around 20° in the poly tunnel. So, we've
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given them a good watering today so that
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they can hopefully take root and get
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growing because these will probably be
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earlier than the ones outside for fruing
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as it will be warmer in here and yeah,
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better conditions for growing in. So,
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those are the strawberries. Absolutely
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amazing.
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Not much happening with all the raised
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beds at the moment. We got all these
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raised beds off Amazon. Absolutely
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brilliant. easy to put together and they
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look absolutely great. So, we're going
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to be filling these with compost. As you
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can see, I've started getting all the
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compost for them all, which is a big
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job, but once they're all filled, it'll
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be perfect. Obviously, we'll have to
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keep feeding the compost year on year
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because obviously all the nutrients will
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get out of them. But, I had quite a few
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comments saying that I shouldn't have
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black membrane on the floor. I am going
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to cut the hole in the bottom for the
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worms to get through and for them to
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drain easier. So, we will be cutting
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that, but obviously we want it down on
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the paths and everything like that. So,
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we will be cutting the membrane. But
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yeah, I'm excited. We're going to be
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having tomatoes along that back bit and
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then we'll have some peppers in. We'll
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have different vegetables in like
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lettuce, beetroot, spring onions,
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carrots, and we're going to have some
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cucumbers in. So, we're going to have a
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lot of good plants in here. So,
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hopefully we'll have a good summer crop
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in here and might possibly try broccoli
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and cauliflowers in here as well and see
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how well they get on and see if they're
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any good. Let me know in the comments if
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anybody else grows in the poly tunnel
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and what sort of produce they grow
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because I would like some ideas from
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people as well. So yeah, it's going to
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be an exciting year in the poly tunnel.
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Next weekend hopefully I might start
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taking all the compost out of the bags
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and filling the raised beds up, getting
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that job done because come March time,
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I'm going to start sewing in here and
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hopefully get some vegetables started
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off growing like my beetroot, my
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lettuce. So yeah, fingers crossed we get
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some done down here.
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So make sure you come back next week for
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episode four. See how well we're getting
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on and hopefully have all these raised
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beds filled with compost. That's the
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plan for next weekend. So it's going to
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be a busy weekend next weekend. And then
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come March time, then we're going to
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start sewing all our seeds, which is
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exciting because I'm up north, so I'm a
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bit behind with everyone. So we sewing
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all those tomato seeds and there
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corettes and uh beetroot lettuce
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everything like that. So we're busy busy
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busy in March. So we're trying to get as
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much done as possible before we get
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started.
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So until next time everybody remember
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keep smiling, keep shining and keep
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gardening with Ben everyone.
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