Strawberry is generally grown in soil worldwide. It is a sensitive plant and a number of organisms affect almost all parts including roots, crown, leaves and fruits. The various fungi in association with nematodes cause diseases, reduce the yield potential and increase the mortality. To eliminate the soil borne diseases and pest the use of artificial media is gaining popularity and number of soilless substrate/media can be used to substitute the soil (De-Rijck and Schrevens, 1998). Soilless culture may be an effective alternative to soil-based cultivation (Albaho et al., 2008) and exploitation of local materials for use as growing media with specific physico-chemical properties (Ortega et al., 1996), which exhibit direct and indirect effects on plant growth and production (Verdonck et al., 1981). The commonly used organic substrate in India, being cocopeat have the high water holding and cation exchange capacity, whereas, perlite provides the required porosity to the media. The application of vermicompost in soilless culture increased strawberry growth and yields (Arancon et al., 2004) because it contains available forms of nutrients such as nitrogen, exchangeable phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and magnesium (Edwards and Burrows, 1988) besides micronutrients. The appropriate proportion of the substrate in strawberry not only increases