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How to best grow fruit organically ?
We bought a house 2 years ago, and recently, I got a great interest in plants and gardening. The previous owners had a little fruit garden, with a few strawberry plants, and one raspberry bush. Last summer, we only got about 6 strawberries from the plants, no raspberries. How do i get a lot of fruit, without chemicals ? I want to grow them organically. There's strawberries, raspberries, and now, a black raspberry plant. I would appreciate any tips, or even webpages greatly. Thanks in advance!
Answer:
Grow fruit organically needs your
patient, tolerant and diplomatic skills.
In my opinon, organic growing means pesticides free and using only natural resources.
Such as rain for water, sun for energy, air for humidity, and compost for fertilisers.
Strawberry plants are much easier to cultivate and care.
You can start learning first from strawberry.
Strawberry plants can be planted with most types of soil.
A well drained light soil will be fine. However, their favourite soil is
dark rich sandy loam. The soil had been used one season before
to grow crops will be the best choice; if you are planning to plant
them in a open ground raised bed garden.
They often request for plenty of sunlight and moist.
When the strawberry plants are setting at the North,
should always be mulched to prevent injury caused by
the hard freeze.
Growing large berries in strawberry fields is possible,
if you clip off all the strawberry runners from the parent plant
once they appear. Keep the rows wide between each plant
will have stronger and vigorous growth.
If you have a big field, you can set rows at least 2.5 foot apart.
If you have a small growing space, set rows one foot apart and
set your plants one foot apart in the row. Make a two feet wide
walkway between every three rows of plants for easy access.
Cover the ground around the root with straws, pine needles,
wheat and oats and weigh them with a little of soil, so that
you will have clean and juicy berries when harvesting.
Harvest strawberries when they are red and glossy.
The best time to harvest should be around 10 am.
I hope it helps!
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