4. Adjusting Soil
Soil is one of the most vital components when you’re setting up your garden, and most successful gardens will have several different soil types in different areas that are optimized for that section and whatever you’re choosing to grow there. If you’d like to plant or transplant strawberries into the new soil, it’s vital that you get the pH levels and the nutrient contents of the soil right.
If you notice that your plants are ever unhappy, the first thing that you should take a look at is the soil: Discoloration of leaves is usually the first sign that the pH will need an adjustment, and stunted growth can mean that the ground doesn’t have enough nutrients for the plants to flourish.
Start the planting phase with soil that falls under moderate pH levels (six to seven) and from there, adjust the pH levels as necessary and keep measuring the levels as you see any changes in the plants.