Growing Ruby Ann Strawberries

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Ruby Ann strawberries are ideal for hanging basket or whereever you want to grow them. They pride themselves on bearing sweet medium-size fruits, along side stunning deep red flowers from Spring until frost. As an ever- bearing variety, they thrive in full sun (6-8 hours, in well drained, nutrient rich soil and require consistent fertilizing (every 3 weeks) to support continuous production.

Ruby Ann is considered to be low maintenance, ornamental, and an ever-bearing plant featuring vibrant red flowers and continuous fruit production from June to September.

They are ideal for hanging baskets, containers and home gardens.

Fertilize Ruby Ann Strawberries

Use a balanced feritilizer like a 10-10-10- NPK. The NPK referring to the three macro-nutrients N-Nitrogen, P- Phosphorus, and K-Potassium- essential for plant health. Represented by a three number ratio, eg,(10-10-10). They indicate the per weight of each nutrient to promote leafy growth, root development, and overall plant vigor.

Watering

Water your Ruby Ann Strawberries by keeping the soil consistently moist, but not soggy, typically requiring 1-1.5 inches of water per week. Water deeply at the base, in early morning aiming to keep foliage dry to prevent foliage to prevent fungal issues. Check that the top inch of soil is dry before watering again,

Use drip irrigation or soaker hose. This prevents the leaves or fruit from getting wet, which prevents diseases.

Check the soil moisture frequently, especially in hot wind weather, as the soil in pots can dr out faster.

Water in earl morning to ensure the foilage has time to dry, which will prevent diseases.

Signs of Distress

If the leaves start to wilt, the plants need water immediately.

Window Sill Gardening

Ruby Ann strawberries do in a window sill garden,( in a sunny window), but you might want to include a grow light, so they will get an adequate amount of sunshine per day.

Ruby Ann Strawberries can be grown anywhere you want to grow them.

1. In your Window Sill Garden.

2.In your Raised Bed Garden

3. In Pots or Hanging Baskets

4. In Rows in your In-Ground Garden

However, I will warn you, Ruby Ann Strawberries will have to have a period of domancy. It is recommended that all ever-bearing strawberries have a period of 200-400 hours of below forty degrees to produce at capacity the next year. It is best to put them in a protected area, such as a garage or porch, which is not heated and gets cold, but is not as harsh as being outside.

I also ordered two more Ruby Ann Strawberry plants, this year for my fruit my fruit garden, I am going to make. They are not as big, as the ones I bought last year, and they had a rough ride, but I have them in a sunny window under a grow light, and I am hoping for the best.

Do you have anything growing in pots at your house?

Are you interested in window sill gardening?

I will tell you the story about what inspired me to have a gardening publication. I had a gardening blog, a few. years ago, and I had a section on window sill gardening. I promoted it on facebook. I had no idea who pulled the blog up and read it.

One day, I got a message from a man in Isreal, and he told me he read my blog post on window sill gardening. It inspired him to make a window sill garden of his own. He and his family ate out of his window sill garden, for he was in an area of Israel, that was being bombed, until relief workers could reach them.

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