Internet of Things (IoT) is network based interconnected devices making physical world more connected with less human effort. The technology that makes our contemporary farms more productive and automates our food production cycles by reducing human interaction is known as farm automation, or “smart farming”. This paper proposes an IoT-based crop monitoring system and automated irrigation system for Soil based Vertical Farming setups using IoT based monitoring system for the crop of strawberries. The designed system is capable of monitoring, various crop parameters like soil moisture, soil temperature, ambient temperature, ambient light, and pH of soil and salinity of soil (electrical conductivity). Through the use of an autonomous irrigation system and an ESP32 microcontroller platform based on a Microchip NODEMCU, the system may also maintain the required soil moisture content for a specific crop. By keeping an eye on Soil PH and Electrical Conductivity values nutrition in the base supporting plants can be increased or decreased as per requirement. For IoT, cloud services of adafruit.io is used to keep the user updated with real time status of the crop. Information from various sensors is regularly fed to the IoT Cloud network and can be used to collect data logs and contribute to big data related to crop parameters for future analysis.