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Strawberry

Fragaria × ananassaEdible

Strawberries are easy to grow and their fruit is not. Planted tight, watered from above and left sitting on bare soil, a good part of the harvest goes to mould. Most of the trouble starts in the moisture around the plant rather than in the plant itself.

What it needs, briefly

Light
6-8 hours of sun.
Water
Regular, and at the base rather than over the top. Leaves and fruit that stay wet are the single biggest cause of fungal disease here.
Soil
Free-draining, rich in organic matter, slightly acidic (pH 5.5-6.5). Mulch, so the fruit never touches soil.

If you can see this

The difference is in the second look

Answering one photo is the easy part. With Strawberry, whether the advice worked only shows days later, which is why Farmagile comes back and asks.

  1. 1Today: upload the photo, get the finding and what to do about it.
  2. 2A few days later the app comes back and asks: did it get better?
  3. 3If it didn't: a second look from a new photo, free, this time knowing what the first one said. If it is still unclear, there is an agronomist behind it.

With strawberries the result of any change shows in the next batch, not the current one: mouldy fruit does not recover, and the fix worked if the following flush stays clean. Which means the answer to 'did it work' only exists a week or two later.

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This page is general information, written without seeing your plant. There are deliberately no product names and no doses: both depend on the plant, the region and the season, and a guessed dose on something you eat cannot be taken back.