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Should I move my strawberry plants now?

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  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Voices of experience there - I can feel your pain from here. It was frustrating last year when you turn over a large ripe fruit to see it nibbled and pecked on the other side. Containers sounds the way to go but yes vine weevil grubs urgh.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I wouldn't discount containers @Ilikeplants . You may get lucky (as I've been to date).

    If you can, I'd try them in different places (at a more suitable time to move them). Strangely, I get considerably more damage in a border on one side of the back garden than the border on the other side.
    East Lancs
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Thanks Biglad - I’m still tempted to move some now though as the soil should still be soft enough and the roots aren’t too deep.
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    Has anyone tried using grit/gravel on strawberries in pots to stop vine weevils? I read somewhere they don’t like laying eggs when grit/gravel is on the surface. Something about not liking to dig. 
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