Strawberries can be grown in sandy soils, however, make sure you add fresh compost to the existing soil before planting. Compost improves the sandy soil's water-holding capacity, reducing the amount of watering required and help stop plants from drying out over the hot summer months. 

One of the secrets to successful strawberries is regular mulching. Not only does it help with water management, but also once fruit develops, it helps to keep them clean, dry, and off the soil, thereby reducing fruit rot. Explore our range of bagged mulch and bark products.

While strawberries are comparatively “bug" free, planting marigolds among or adjacent to your plants can be beneficial and help keep pests away. 

Strawberry plants are the most productive in the first and second years after planting - commercial growers typically only keep plants for one year!  In the home garden, after about two years a strawberry plants’ fruit production can start to slow down. To avoid this and ensure a continual succession of cropping of strawberries it is good practice to replace plants within two years.  

It is very easy to propagate your own new plants by removing and replanting ‘runners’ which are baby strawberry plants that grow from established ‘parent’ strawberry plants at the end of the growing season.