Strawberry soilless culture is a new cultivation method that replaces natural soil with soilless substrate or water, and provides nutrients and water for plant growth and development through drip irrigation, spraying or water circulation at all stages of plant growth. Soilless culture can be divided into substrate culture with solid substrate and hydroponic culture without substrate.

Strawberry soilless culture is of great significance. First of all, strawberry production at home and abroad is gradually changing from open-air cultivation to protected cultivation, and the planting area of protected strawberries is expanding. However, the conventional protected cultivation with soil as the medium makes the obstacle of strawberry continuous cropping more and more serious, which leads to the weakening of strawberry plant growth potential, lower yield and lower fruit quality. However, crop rotation is difficult to do in large-scale and fixed facilities cultivation; Although soil disinfection can alleviate the obstacles of continuous cropping to a certain extent, the disinfection process is easy to kill beneficial microorganisms and destroy the natural balance of microorganisms. If disinfected with drugs, harmful substances will accumulate in the soil and pollute the soil and fruits, which has been banned in pollution-free cultivation. Soilless culture can effectively solve the obstacle of strawberry continuous cropping. Secondly, the production of strawberry in soilless culture is generally carried out in protective facilities, and the environmental conditions are easy to control, thus preventing the occurrence of soil-borne diseases and the spread and reproduction of pests and diseases, using little or no pesticides, reducing fruit pests and diseases, and preventing environmental and fruit pollution. Therefore, it is the first choice for pollution-free farming. Thirdly, soilless culture can recycle water and nutrients, and the nutrients needed by plants can avoid being fixed and leaking in the soil, thus saving water and nutrients, and generally saving 50% ~ 80% of fertilizers. Fourthly, soilless culture solves the supply contradiction of water, gas and nutrients that is difficult to solve in soil planting. Soilless culture makes strawberry grow and develop under the best fertilizer and water growth conditions by artificially controlling the fertilizer and water environment, with fast plant growth, high yield, good quality and short growth cycle. In addition, soilless culture also has the characteristics of cultivation in unsuitable areas. Therefore, strawberry soilless culture has broad development prospects.