 Freshly harvested from your indoor strawberry garden.
Strawberries are awesome tasting when you can buy them locally grown and in-season. Once the season ends, you can only get huge imported berries without any flavor and at a ridiculous high price. Growing strawberries in a grow room is actually really easy. Plus you won’t have to beat the birds to get your fruit.
Strawberries are so delicious and extremely good for your health.
Homeopathic medicine has used strawberry fruit and plants for centuries. Strawberries actually remove tartar and stains from your teeth. They are also high in Vitamin C, iron and fiber. Not only berry-licious but are believed to have natural compounds that fight cancer.
Hydroponic strawberries produce more fruit per plant than soil grown plants. Strawberries are actually tastier and juicier grown hydroponically. The reason is that you are in complete control of the sunshine, climate and nutrients. You don’t need a huge space to grow strawberries in a grow room. You can conserve valuable floor space growing them in a stacker.
 Get the most berries for your buck with Day-Neutral Strawberry plants.
You have only one season in your grow room. Ever-bearing strawberries produce fruit three times a season in the soil. Day-Neutral varieties continually fruit the entire season in abundance. The berries are a bit smaller than June bearing types, but the just keep on producing. Day-Neutral berries also do not produce runners and will take up less space. Look for these named strawberry plant varieties:
- Tribute – bears spring through fall, medium to large berries.
- Quinalt – self-pollinating, 4-5 month harvest and 2” wide berries.
- Tristar – smaller berries in great abundance spring to frost.
Staggering crops of June bearing plants can also give you a year-around harvest.
You can easily keep yourself stocked with new plants without ever buying one again. Just clip the runners and root them. Put your starters in cold storage until you need to start a new crop. June bearing plants produce the largest berries in great abundance. Some varieties are better than others. Some of the most popular plant varieties:
- Honeoye
- Jewel
- Cardinal Earliglo
Growing strawberry plants from seed is possible.
There’s a reason that all nurseries you can buy strawberry plants from only offer plants for sale. No one wants to wait 2-3 years after planting to be harvesting fruit. Most people aren’t even that patient when growing them in an outdoor garden. In your indoor garden, this would not be at all cost efficient. You’ll be farther ahead by a long shot to purchase the first set of plants mail order and start your own babies from those to keep your harvest going continually.
The first most important thing you need to do is learn the different kinds of plants.
For someone who is thinking about creating an income from growing hydroponic strawberries, this is really vital. Different types of plants are geared to bloom and produce at different times. To keep a non-stop harvest requires more research than this article. For the hobby grower the day-neutral varieties will be best. Even with these varieties, you will need to plan on changing your crop twice a year.
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