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Growing Strawberries at Home
ost of us are city people, so because its made by the parts of the plans
it’s probably that we never that fall in to the ground, so it is very rich
have been in direct contact in nutrients from vegetal origin, beside it
with
M the growing and har- is easy to be graved by the roots of the
vesting the vegetables we take to our ta- plants and it keeps the humidity well.
bles. For us the food comes from the mark- The best way to start growing plants
er or supermarket. But growing some fruit is mixing those kind of soils to make a fer-
at our homes can be a useful and tasty ex- tile ground for your plants.
perience.
Where to plant?
There are a lot of fruits that you can
grow at your house, for reasons of space If you have a garden you can choose
we are going to about the strawberry. But a spot in it. It must be a place where the
first we are going to sum up sum important sun hits at least two hours a day, so your
previous that anyone who wants to start plants have a nice dose of sunlight. If you
growing plants at home should know. plan to grow your plants indoors you should
think also in a well lighted by sun space in
Our greatest ally, the soil.
your house to put the pot with your plant.
If you ever played with the mud It’s also useful to have a germina-
when you where a kid, you can see there tion box or pot where you can sew the
are different kinds of soil you should be seeds and watch them carefully on their
familiar with; first of all we have the sand. first stages of growth you can use an egg
Unlike the sand of the beaches, the sand carton, because it is indeed a really good
we can find in Leon isn’t made from small place to put your seeds, it already comes
pieces of shells, but small (really small) separated in small compartments and, best
pieces of stone. The sand isn’t a very good of all, it’s completely biodegradable so you
soil to grow fruit because it’s a little poor don’t have to take the plants out of it
in nutrients, but is important because it when they have grown, you just have to
can provide some minerals that the plants plant them in the pot of in the spot on the
really need. garden you want them to be.
The second type of soil is the mud, Now we can talk about growing the
is a sticky kind of dirt and it can be used to plants.
build walls, homes, and even be cooked to
make any kind of pottery. You can learn if The strawberry.
the soil you have at your disposal is rich in To grow strawberries at your home
mud if you can take some of it when its you have to get some seeds, you can get
wet and make a donut with your fingers. them from the very same strawberries you
The mud can be useful for growing plants buy in the market or supermarket. As you
too but is can be hard for the roots to can see the strawberry doesn’t have its
make they way trough it, so you can mix it seeds inside, but all around the fruit, so
with sand to make it easy to penetrate for you can peel the strawberry and have al-
the roots of your plants. most the whole fruit to eat and the peeling
The third kind of soil you have to has enough seeds for you to start growing
know is the organic soil, or leaf soil, it is a your strawberries.
really good kind of soil to grow plans in it
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