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strawberry runners
The potty gardener
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in Fruit & veg
I know this is probably a very basic question, but I have never tried growing strawberries before. The plants I put in have flowered nicely and I have baby strawberries growing well. There are also what I assume must be what are called runners sprouting. What is it best to do with the runners?
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You can pin them down to the ground so that they root, when you can separate them from the parent plant - you then will have baby plants for next year.
However, if this is your strawberries' first year, many remove the runners so that the plant doesn't spend energy on them - it'll produce more next year.
thats helpful as I am growing them for the first time too.
Silly question..... but what is a runner?
A runner is something the plant sends out around fruiting time- they are shoots that run along the ground with small plantlets at intervals-this explains
http://www.gardenhive.com/fruit/strawberries/grow/runners/
I made a video on this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3cEljuKJ64