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		<title>Topsy Turvy Yummy Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re craving for strawberries but they’re out of season, you can grow strawberries for your own supply. All you need is an upside down strawberry planter. You can order starter kits off the Internet. Do your research and read a strawberry planter review before you buy strawberry planter. One of the advantages of growing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-54" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" title="strawberry-planter-medium-211x300" src="http://growupsidedownstrawberries.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/strawberry-planter-medium-211x300.jpg" alt="" width="211" height="300" /> If you’re craving for strawberries but they’re out of season, you can grow strawberries for your own supply. All you need is an upside down strawberry planter.</p>
<p>You can order starter kits off the Internet. Do your research and read a strawberry planter review before you buy strawberry planter.</p>
<p>One of the advantages of growing your own strawberries is that you can keep them completely organic and pesticide and chemical free.</p>
<p>Make sure to familiarize yourself with the different types of strawberries so that you knowwhat you’re buying and growing. The Ever-bearing variety will produce two crops, in June and late summer. However, the fruits tend to be smaller.</p>
<p>For the first season, it is recommended that you pinch off all the flowers until midsummer. This way the strawberries will grow in two crops.</p>
<p>It is also a good idea to consult your local nursery or garden center to ask which variety grows best in which clime.</p>
<p>Alpine strawberries are small and yummy, but you need a lot of plants in order to be able to grow strawberries, so this might not be the best option for hanging planters.</p>
<p>Day-neutral strawberries will produce fruit for most of the summer, unless the weather gets extremely hot.</p>
<p>Planting hanging strawberries is perfect for those with small spaces. Just make sure that they get plenty of sun – at least six to eight hours. You may also want to turn your plants 180 degrees every so often in order to make sure that all the plants get enough sun.</p>
<p>If there are squirrels or other animals in your area, you may want to put chicken wire around your strawberry planters so that you can enjoy your strawberries instead of the furry critters.</p>
<p>Once you plant your own strawberries you’ll be able to enjoy them freshly picked.</p>
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		<title>Growing Strawberries Upside Down is easy with the strawberry bag planter.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using an upside down strawberry planter bag can greatly increase your chances of growing large, sweet strawberries year round. No matter what climate you live in.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It can be easy to grow strawberries, no matter where you live and what climate zone. Even if it’s in an apartment or condo and you don’t have a big yard to plant your garden in. Using the upside down strawberry planter is a great way to grow rich, succulent berries year round even if you don’t have a lot of space available. It can turn unused sections of your deck, patio, or even bedroom into a super place to grow strawberries. All this without the fuss or mess that a regular garden.</p>
<p>When an upside down strawberry planter or strawberry bag is used it can help to increase the yield you are accustomed to seeing from your regular strawberry gardens. Because of the way in which the roots will grow together, and the plants will hang down causing less stress, the growth will be much more than regular plants out in the garden. Not to mention the fact that you won’t have worry about harmful pesticides or other agents you add to your regular garden. Nobody wants that on food they will be eating, and now you won’t have to worry about it.</p>
<p>When you grow your strawberry plants upside down, it will help promote rapid and healthy growth of the plants, with no worries about weeding. When the plants are using less energy to fight the forces of gravity, they are using that reserve energy to grow larger, fuller plants. This means you’ll see larger, plumper strawberries, and even juicier than you’re used to.<br />
The strawberries will become much juicier because of all the extra energy the plant is putting towards growing, instead of keeping its weight up to combat gravity. This creates a win-win situation for you, and for the plants. The strawberry plants will have an easier life-time and longer lifespan while you get to enjoy sweet juicy strawberries all year round.</p>
<p>The upside down strawberry planter should be used with lots of strawberry plants. No more sewing only one seed, with this planter you can put two seeds in every seed port, which creates a much better opportunity for the plants to grow, and take root inside the upside down strawberry bag. This gives you full control over how and where you water, and how much sun the plants get as well as the oxygen in the air will be absorbed by the plant much better because of the added airflow around all the stems and leaves. All of this creates much fuller and bountiful strawberry plants.</p>
<p>The upside down strawberry bag lets you grow strawberries in places you never imagined, with fuller growth, and many more berries with each crop. This translates too much less money spent at the supermarket, and you’ll be well stocked with strawberries year-round. Making jam, or strawberry tarts will never be as fun as it will be when you’re using your own strawberries, from your own plants that you grew right inside your house with no back-breaking garden labor required.</p>
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		<title>Hanging Strawberries allow you to enjoy fresh fruit year-round. No matter the climate!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing strawberries outdoors can be a hassle, and not always feasible for all climates. Using the strawberry bag to grow your strawberries upside down, you can increase the yield from the plant, as well as use less effort doing it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you aren&#8217;t living in a climate that is always getting great sunshine year round, and temperatures with proper rainfall it can be hard to grow strawberries. Much of the United States lays outside these temperate zones and will only yield fruit during the summer months. Even if you&#8217;re located in a dry zone that is warm year round, rain and watering your strawberries isn&#8217;t always done at optimal levels.</p>
<p>With the upside down strawberry bag you can grow them year round, without concern for the weather. When you&#8217;re growing them year round, you&#8217;re sure to always have a large supply of fruit on hand for snacking, canning or making home made strawberry jam.</p>
<p>Growing plants outside or inside the house, especially when up and off the ground will gain better results than normal garderning techniques, reduce the exposure to harmful predators and other baddies that could harm your plants. Not to mention if you&#8217;re growing the strawberries inside the house you probably won&#8217;t have to use any pesticides on them. Making the final fruit even more healthy for you and your family or whomever is eating the strawberries.</p>
<p>Upside down strawberries are fun for the whole family and will give you great results year round if you plant them indoors or live in a nice temperate zone that will sustain the plant. They&#8217;re strawberry bags are also quite affordable at only $10 and the ability to hold 15 plants in their clean and discreet soil bag. They even look nice and add color to your indoor garden, or outdoor garden. Who doesn&#8217;t like seeing sweet succulent strawberries in their garden, especially year round!</p>
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		<title>Growing Upside Down Strawberries for year round treats.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing tomatoes upside down has been common for the past few years. Now you can even grow strawberries in a similar fashion for higher yields, and easier upkeep. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We’ve all seen the amazing topsy turvey upside down tomato growing system on TV and various newspapers or magazines. They’ll grow your tomatoes bigger, plumper and quicker than growing them in your regular garden. A side benefit is less work, no more bending down and watering your plants, or removing weeds.</p>
<p>What you probably haven’t heard of is the fabulous strawberry bag. This new product lets you grow your strawberries in the same way that upside down tomatoes are grown. What this does is enable you quick access to the roots for watering, and allowing more growth because the sun hits the entire plant, not just the tops of the leaves.</p>
<p>As with all products that work, it’s natural for them to evolve into different markets. Strawberries are a perfect offshoot for upside down growing. Now you can grow strawberries year round outside, or even inside if you’re craving a juicy strawberry in the middle of winter. The plants themselves are not upside down like they are in the tomato planter, however the leaves will hang down which is why we call them upside down strawberries.</p>
<p>The strawberry bag works by inserting your strawberry plants into the side of the bag, separting them nicely and allowing for great water penetration to the roots. The strawberries wil cause less strain on the plant and allow for larger yields, year round.  You will probably want to use some sort of hanger system for the bag as it can get quite heavy when you add water.</p>
<p>The bag itself holds up to 15 strawberry plants. Using the patented starburst growing ports, or little openings in the side of the bag that let you insert your plants from the outside, while leaving the soil neatly inside the bag. All while not bending down over the garden and performing backbreaking manual labor.</p>
<p>To actually get the strawberries growing, you just have to hang the strawberry bag up on your porch or by a window inside, put the plants into the insertion slots and then add some more soil to make sure they are completely secure. Following that, all that’s required is repeating the process for the rest of the plants, adding water and watching them grow!</p>
<p>This planter is a great method for older people, or younger people that you don’t want using shovels or trampling around in your garden. Also take into account how much work it will save, and ease of use it will create when watering. No more lugging the hose out and walking across the yard, now you can simply fill a watering can and water it like you would any hanging plant. Pretty sweet.</p>
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