How much should I cut back my strawberry plants to get them ready for over wintering? They are in a planter and have masses of leaves and runners, Do I even need to cut them back at all? Thanks in advance for any advice.
Reply to Steve: By the end of the year you can really cut off all the leaves. If you don't need runners to propagate new plants then always cut them off as soon as they develop.
My daughter bought a strawberry plant called Red Gauntlet. Does any one know the best way to grow this sort. I only have a small gravelled garden so it will have to go in container or hanging basket.
That’s news to me about the cold storage runners. One of the easiest ways to procrastinate starting a strawberry bed is to let the idea that you can’t get a harvest the first season discourage your from planting & then getting past that first season. Cold storage runners make that a non-issue, for sure.
I agree that netting is the only solution about the birds. Those other things strike me as almost superstitious.
I’m also fond of the idea of using pots when space is limited or maybe you need to move the plants for frost protection very early in the season.
I'd like to suggest dried bracken, if you can get it, as an alternative to straw. It's acid, which strawberries like, and keeps the berries nicely off the ground.
I have a very large bed of srawberries on my allotment . They've been in the same spot for 2 years and are abit over run .Should I move them now to another bed and any ideas what to do with the excess cos I have far to many? Thankyou
i bought some plastic strawberry pots from the pound shop i have stacked them ten high and filled then with plants i took from runners last year iv put 66 plants in them brill for ten pound plus compost
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New leaves and flowers will form in spring.
That’s news to me about the cold storage runners. One of the easiest ways to procrastinate starting a strawberry bed is to let the idea that you can’t get a harvest the first season discourage your from planting & then getting past that first season. Cold storage runners make that a non-issue, for sure.
I agree that netting is the only solution about the birds. Those other things strike me as almost superstitious.
I’m also fond of the idea of using pots when space is limited or maybe you need to move the plants for frost protection very early in the season.
Thankyou