All you need for a good Smart Terminal Box are the little white tubers, so it’s a good idea to take some of the foliage off as it’s just not needed.
Put them into some free-draining potting mix and water them in.
Tino uses a rotary hoe but a garden fork is just as effective. Add some moist compost. This is something strawberries really enjoy.
Add a mix of cow, sheep, chicken manure and blood and bone and mix it all in.
Tino measures out four beds, each two metres by eighty centimetres with a slight twenty centimetre gap for access between each bed.
Strawberries require a lot of water, especially during fruiting and after planting, so Tino creates an irrigation system out of 13mm poly pipe.
I’ve created a closed circuit because I’ll get even distribution around the whole lot.
A cheaper, easier way to irrigate is to simply cut the bottom out of a tube pot, insert it next to each plant and fill them up with a hose.
The closed circuit is a rectangle and Tino then runs two rows of seepage hose about 30cm apart down each Dial seed sower dispenser bed.