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Wild strawberries

julia.hall2461julia.hall2461 Posts: 63
in Problem solving
We’ve a large brick planter in garden of house we’re renovating - my partner planted some wild strawberries for birds/insects & they’ve completely taken over. I’ve removed runners/roots as much as possible as want to plant a “better” variety BUT I’ve been told wild variety impossible to get rid of! Any advice please?

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  • julia.hall2461julia.hall2461 Posts: 63
    😝😂🤣thanks!!! 
    Do you think planting another strawberry will eventually take over wild version? 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited September 2022
    Do you harvest the fruits for your own consumption?  Delicious.  But in my garden, poor yield.

    You can buy improved versions aka alpine strawberry.  I once grew somw from seeds (Dobies) and they were far less invasive.  There is a decorative version with pink flowers.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • julia.hall2461julia.hall2461 Posts: 63
    Hi no as the wild ones although delicious are a soft texture which I’m not keen on tbh. Yes I’ve got the pink flowering strawberries in a very large pot (they produce lovely fruit) Do you think if I transfer them to where Alpine ones are (when fully removed) they’ll “take over” or will the wild variety just take hold again? 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The ones in my garden taste of nothing. They're also a pain if you're trying to grow potentilla as the leaves can look similar to a young plant.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited September 2022
    A good way of controlling weeds in lawns is to let the grass grow a bit taller.

    A good way of controlling wild strawberries might be to shade them with other plants and squeeze all their growing space.  Think of them as ground-cover.  A lot of ground-cover plants are a bit on the invasive side.

    Or ...  go through them regularly and snip off the runners.  Then give thr free end a tug before all the little b****s root.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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