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Growing Strawberries at Home

You can prepare the soil in your already have one you will see how it start
germination box, then put the peeling over to grow “children” of its own, and as a bad
it and then cover them with barely enough mother, push them away. You just have to
dirt so you can’t see them anymore, then make sure the strawberry “child” has a
you place your germination box in a well nice soil to plant itself and when it´s big
sun lighted place and every day, or even enough and rooted enough, you can cut the
twice a day, you have to make sure the soil mother´s stem and move to the place you
is moist, you will be watering the think it´s more suitable for it.
germination box so its always wet.
This is not only a nice and delicious
By the way, remember to no hobby, it can teach us some important
overwater the germination box, it must be values for our lives. For example, the
wet, nut not flooded, don’t worry if you taking care of a plant since it was a small
flood it once, our good friend, the sun, will seed can teach us the responsibility to take
take care of it. And you should put a care of other creatures of the nature. The
plastic bag or a plastic
board beneath the
germination box in case it
leaks.
After two or three
weeks you will se how
some pairs of small green
dots will be showing on
your germination box.
These aren`t still the leafs
of the strawberry, but
they will work as if they
were, they will increase
size and soon in the
middle of them a really
small strawberry leaf is
going to grow, then another, and then slow, yet rewarding grow of the plants can
another more. They will continue growing, teach us about the ways we take in life
and when you dee the tiny plant is the size and the projects that we make. How some
of the palm of your hand, you can of them won´t realize, but some of them
transplant the plant to the garden or to will, and those that will, will require
the pot you have for it. patience, dedication, effort, and a big deal
of eagerness.
This is a slow process, but if you
continue taking care of your plants soon Good luck in the growing of your
you will see how they grow flowers and new plants.
bear fruits, how the fruits get bigger and
red, and there you go! You have grown a
strawberry at your own home. Written by Santiago de María Bravo
Álvarez Malo
Besides, the strawberry it’s a “bad
mother” kind of plant, it means once you

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