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When to pot strawberry runners?

GardenAmateurGardenAmateur Posts: 75
in Fruit & veg
I have promised my colleague , some runners and I have some very small shoots appearing now,  do I pot them now and leave them attached to plant,  or do I wait until they are big enough to be planted on their own? My logic is that if I put them in compost now they will take less energy away from parent plant but I am quite often wrong about these things...

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  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    I would wait until they have a good established root system.  You can grow them into small pots while they are still attached to the parent plant, just use a wire pin to keep the plant upright and held still in the pot.  Keep the pot watered to encourage root growth in the runner.  
    Utah, USA.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You’re right Kirsty, pot them up now, leave attached to mother plant then sever when you can see them growing, I use those old fashioned hair pins to pin them down in the pot. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • GardenAmateurGardenAmateur Posts: 75
    Lyn said:
    You’re right Kirsty, pot them up now, leave attached to mother plant then sever when you can see them growing, I use those old fashioned hair pins to pin them down in the pot. 
    Brilliant will do it this week, I took some last year, beginning of August and gave them away but by all accounts it's only the ones that I kept for myself that have made a 2nd season, of course mine might have had a bit more TLC , than the ones I gave away.
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