Potting soil mixture/blend especially for Strawberries?
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Hi /out/
Can someone please recommend me a website or guide for mixing the best potting soil mixture and proportions for strawberries?
I ‘had’ a good one… it used part, sand, potting mix, peat, and possibly something else… it is somewhere in my gardening bookmarks but theres hundreds of pages and I can’t find it. I plan to clean and set up an old Earthbox I have (first generation) and their website or forums can’t seem to agree on the perfect soil mixture for strawberries. I live in Zone 10A and I’m planning to put six different Strawberries (that I’m starting from seed and are almost all everbearing I think) at the corners of the Earthbox, two Frijol Pinto Beans Bushes (bush beans and strawberries are great companion plants plus the beans fix the nitrogen in the soil) and a Borage plant right in the center to ensure the bees come visit it and pollinate the flowers. The Earthbox dimensions are 30”L x 15”H x 12”W and it takes about 2 Cu. Ft. of soil.
Also, if you can recommend me the right amount/brand/mixture or combination of fertilizer(s) to use with the elemental/NPK breakdown for the Strawberries, Beans, and Borage in the Earthbox that would be awesome! You're supposed to add the fertilizer at planting and then you don’t mess with it afterwards so I have to do this right at the start. I know the soil needs to be acidic since strawberries like that. I also bought a red plastic tablecloth that I’m going to use as a replacement ‘mulch cover’ (red light reflected back at the fruit from the cover seems to improve the fruit size) and the mulch cover will keep the weeds & pests out. I’m not sure how to get the mulch cover to stay attached to the Earthbox since I’m going to make my own opposed to buying one of theirs which is too expensive (with shipping it comes to be about $8-$9 from their store).
Pic related this is what the Earthbox is and strawberries growing in one
