Strawberry fertiliser for new bare root?

[The Griff]

I have just ordered some vibrant and honeoye plants, they are A+ grade 18mm+ supercrown bare root plants with a huge root system.
I have for the time being put them in the greenhouse in a 4 feet square raised bed type planter that is about 8 inches deep. I grew all of my chillie plants in the same planter last year and over the winter have just let the compost dry out. I have give the compost a good watering and put a few chicken manure pellets in with it before planting the strawberries. I just want to bring these on a bit in the greenhouse before putting them outside in the ground.
Will the compost they are in now be ok with the few chicken manure pellets in or is there another type of nutrient/fertiliser I could use to give them a better start?

Thanks in advance for any replies

[WendyC]

Growing them in the greenhouse will bring on soft growth, which will be susceptible to frosts and pests. Then you will have to hardened them off. Personally I would plant them out, perhaps using a bit of Rootgrow to help them establish.

[Jungle Jane]

When you plant them out,you could add some bonemeal to the hole & feed them with sulphur of potash,potassiums good for fruits & flowers. Or use BFB?

[The Griff]

Thanks for the advise, the bed they are going in had some rotted manure dug in just after Christmas, I also dug it over again a fortnight ago and mixed some slow release chicken manure pellets and some BFB. I have covered the bed in landscape fabric and going to plant them through it, this worked well last year with fennella and elsanta.
Think I will try and get them in the ground on Saturday, do you think they will be ok now they have had 3 days in the greenhouse.

[Jungle Jane]

Whenever I've bought strawberry plants I've never put them in a greenhouse,I just leave them outside on my table,I would plant them out Saturday,you could put them outside Friday during the day so they're not too hot in the greenhouse & it would get them used to a bit of cold?

[spamvindaloo]

.....this worked well last year with fennella and elsanta.....

Just wondered what you did with last year's fenella and elsanta? Strawberries are most productive in their second year so I wouldn't buy new each year.

[The Griff]

I aren't replacing last years plants, I am simply adding two more beds, we eat loads of strawberries so was just wanting another couple of earlier varieties that's why I have gone for vibrant and honeoye, I may even get another late crop off the vibrant from what research I have done depending on the weather. Last year I prepared the outside beds the same as this year but ordered the bare root plants about a month later than now and put them straight into the ground.
I will try and put some pictures up when I get it all planted up and you can see the plants I put in last year compared to the new ones I put in this year.
This is an old post from last year with last years new plants freshly planted.
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1340299

[The Griff]

This is my fennella from last year in the biggest bed, the elsanta in the triangle bed and 10 malling centenary with 10 honeoye in the new big bed, the vibrant have already started to bud up in the greenhouse so I am going to have to harden them off before I put them out as it's gone freezing up here again.
The vibrant are going in the same size bed as the fennella.

[The Griff]

This is the vibrant in the greenhouse, you can see that in a few days they think it's summer already.
The tree on the left is my nectarine that I have started to hand pollinate with a brush this morning.