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Can I just let strawberry plants let rip and now replant the new ones?

  • 25-03-2013 08:37PM
    #1
    alexanderomahon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I planted some strawberry plants last year in my allotment. After I had harvested the fruit I simply just left them to send out their runners.

    As a result I now have an overgrown patch with a lot of small strawberry plants in them.

    What I am doing now is replanting the new plants to a new patch. However, one old patch is now going to be five new ones.

    When I read up on what people are doing now it seems they are keeping their plants in doors and protecting them, whereas mine have been out all winter!!

    I was wondering whether this means my strawberries will not be very good and therefore should I scrap the whole idea and plant something else?

    What do people think?


Comments

  • #2
    Micheal GIY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭Micheal GIY


    The plants are doing exactly what strawberry plants are supposed to do, and you can just get on and reap the rewards. Strawberry plants being kept indoors, or putting plastic tunnels or floating fleece over outdoor plants, is all about trying to get early strawberries.


  • #3
    redser7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭redser7


    They are tough cookies, very hardy, and will take winter weather no problem. Just tidy up any dead or deseased looking foliage and let the new growth do its thing for the coming season and crop.


  • #4
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭langdang


    Great to hear, had a hanging basket of strawberries last year that didn't produce much, hopefully they will spring into life this year. Is it normal for the first year to be fairly sparse for berries?


  • #5
    jezko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭jezko


    Strawberry Plants need a cold period to set more flowers, so keep them outside and when this cold Period ends, dig up the new plants and grade/pick them into plants that have a big crown , thumb width is quite good (More fruit/flowers) and plant these inside a tunnel / cover to get earlier Fruit... The smaller plants can be kept outside and will fruit later but with fewer berries


  • #6
    redser7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭redser7


    langdang wrote: »
    Great to hear, had a hanging basket of strawberries last year that didn't produce much, hopefully they will spring into life this year. Is it normal for the first year to be fairly sparse for berries?

    Yip. Year two you should get a nice crop. Year three should produce the best crop. People get rid of them after that.


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