strawberry plants

average_runner

Hi;

Now the strawberry plants stop giving me strawberries and i cut the runners to produce new plants what do i need to do with the plants for the autumn and winter.

Thanks

garr23

Hi AR,

I'd also like to know the definitive answer to this, so my reply will bump this back to the first page where, perhaps, someone more knowledgeable than myself can answer . But this is what I did with my strawberry plants this year, the first year I have grown them.

The original strawberry plants came in a growbag and I kept them there so as not to disturb them. After they stopped fruiting and sent out runners I trained these runners into pots while still attached to the parent plants. I waited until I was sure they had rooted (about 3 weeks IIRC), then cut the runners, cut up the growbag and re-homed the parent plants into a polystyrene trough/box. At this stage though, two of the plants were in a very bad condition (very brown, dry leaves, crumble to the touch almost) so I just threw them away and kept the other three. Perhaps that end of the growbag didn't get as much water as the other side

I planted the baby plants in the same sort of containers - 10 plants, 5 to each box. They are a little more crowded now than when I originally transplanted them, but as I understand it strawberry plants just need shallow soil and not much room. If I'm wrong maybe someone can shout out?

I assume I just forget about them now (apart from a little bit of weeding), but I have a mini-greenhouse on stand-by which I can set over the top of them in bad frosts.

Have I done anything wrong folks? I'm a total newb! Thanks.

pops

Generally I've just kept the parent plants in the same spot for about 2 years. I don't think they do so well after that and they seem to survive quite well.

The problem I have is getting manure etc. into them while they're in place. I would prefer just to lift them altogether and store them in containers until I have a spot ready for spring. Is this ok to do?