Planting Strawberries

Master Gardener Tom Mashour shows how to plant strawberries in the garden. Tom uses white plastic over the soil. This is to keep the strawberries off the ground, retain moisture, and reflect the heat from the hot summer sun.  Tom uses a shower curtain liner from a dollar store. He plants two rows of strawberries. The rows are 12 inches apart with the plants 12 inches apart in the rows. The rows are offset 6 inches from each other. Tom cuts an X in the plastic where he wants to plant the plant. Then he digs a small hole in the soil under the X and plants the strawberry plant. The plastic he put down is in two pieces. When the plants need watered he can open up the plastic between the two pieces, then close it back up when done.

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