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    Perfectly Grown Strawberries: the complete guide to growing strawberries
    Perfectly Grown Strawberries: the complete guide to growing strawberries
    Perfectly Grown Strawberries: the complete guide to growing strawberries
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    Perfectly Grown Strawberries: the complete guide to growing strawberries

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    "Perfectly Grown Strawberries - the complete guide to growing strawberries" is the complete guide to growing strawberries at home. This is the perfect guide if you are a first-timer looking to grow some strawberries for home-made desserts or a seasoned strawberry grower looking to sell strawberries at the local farmer's market. This details all steps from choosing your planting spot and the correct variety of strawberry right through to ensuring your fruit remains pest-free to post-harvest maintenance. There is also a section on balcony growing, if you are a city dweller or have limited space for growing. This guide contains a wealth of hints and tips, and highlights many of the common mistakes growers often make. Compiled by seasoned horticulturists and gardeners, with this guide you will have Always Perfectly Grown Strawberries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlways Perfectly Grown
    Release dateSep 17, 2015
    ISBN9781310874802
    Perfectly Grown Strawberries: the complete guide to growing strawberries
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    Always Perfectly Grown

    Always Perfectly Grown guides are written by seasoned gardeners and horticulturists. Fed up of seeing folk making the same mistakes over again when gardening we decided to lay down our gardening tools and take to our computers to compile useful and practical guides. Follow these guides and your fruit and vegetables will be Always Perfectly Grown. Happy Gardening! (and reading!)Friend us on Facebook and enjoy more great tips and hints - www.facebook.com/APGguides

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      Perfectly Grown Strawberries - Always Perfectly Grown

      PERFECTLY GROWN STRAWBERRIES

      The Complete Guide to Growing Strawberries

      An Always Perfectly Grown Guide

      PERFECTLY GROWN STRAWBERRIES

      the complete guide to growing strawberries

      Smashwords Edition | Copyright © 2015 | Always Perfectly Grown Guides

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your own use, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

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      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      2. STRAWBERRY BASICS

      June-bearing strawberries

      Everbearing strawberries

      Day-neutral strawberries

      Runners

      3. PREPARATION

      4. BUYING

      5. PLANTING & PROPAGATING

      Hill System (also known as the mound system)

      Matted Row System

      Propagating

      6. CARE & MAINTENANCE

      7. HARVESTING

      8. AFTER HARVEST

      9. DISEASE

      Pests

      Fungus

      Weather

      10. BALCONY GROWING

      Strawberry Pots

      11. STRAWBERRY MONTH-BY-MONTH

      12. VARIETIES

      Day-neutral

      Everbearing

      June-bearing

      13. OTHER GUIDES BY THE AUTHOR

      1. INTRODUCTION

      Strawberries are one of nature’s finest treats. They are the worlds most widely-grown fruit, contain more vitamin C by weight than oranges or grapefruits, are high in fibre and very low in calories. In addition they are naturally high in folate, potassium and antioxidants, making them the ideal sweet treat to keep us healthy in mind and body! There is nothing quite like seeing lush red strawberries ripening on a strawberry plant, or eating a fresh strawberry, bursting with sweetness and flavour, right off the plant. Unfortunately, too many of us buy our strawberries from the store. These strawberries have been bred for long shelf-life. This means once the strawberries have been picked, the sugars they contain have started converting to starch, often giving the strawberry a grainy texture when it reaches your table. So while their colour and shape looks appealing, their taste is secondary, and we miss out so much of their goodness.

      The good news is that strawberries are easy to

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