Anyone Strawberry's flowering?

[JILLY JACKSON]

Sorry,told you that my freebys from gw were flowering,just looked and yes lots of flowers but a few strawberries as well!Ok they are small and green,but they are outside.I;m well pleased

[acreman]

Hi there ,i've been picking strawberries for about 10 days,they were in the polytunnel before it was wrecked,i managed to save about 15 plants out of 50,i've been having them for breakfast,they taste devine.

[Jenegade]

Mine have been outside all winter and the flower buds are just forming! Looking forward to some yummy strawbs!

[Spiderling]

Mine are flowering too and they are all outside. We have 25 big buckets with 4 plants in each, alot are last years runners, some were given to us and others are older plants. When I was potting them up into the buckets, I found lots of Vine Weevil grubs >swear< and have just used the Nemesys biological killer on them, now that the soil has warmed up. Here's to strawberry jam!! Cheers.

[BrideXIII]

mine are flowering and have been for a week, thanx to my benefactor, weather says YES, who am i to argue?

[Herbie]

I planted all the runners into a two tier flower thingy. Over the last month they have put on lush green growth and have started to flower over the last week. Well chuffed.
I am also growing Honeoye.

[sewer rat]

My outdoor strawberries are beginning to flower - the 64 hanging basket strawberries in the polytunnel are forming berries now

[pdblake]

Greenhouse ones are flowering but nowt outside yet, still a bit nippy on a night here yet.

[bobleponge]

I have outdoor ones in two different places. The ones in the main garden, which are open to the sun whenever its up, are flowering away nicely, whereas the ones that are on an east facing white painted wall, already have fruit formed. Most odd. They only get the sun until about 1500 daily, so I am really surprised that the open ones are behind the east facing ones.

[helly]

I've had my new strawberries plants in the ground now for a month and i hhave been pinching out any flowers so that I hope it will help mature the plant but now should I just let them flower as they are a fair size now?

[wellie]

Pigletwillie kindly gave me some Marshmallow Strawberry Runners about 2 years ago, and Trousers and I made a kind of Tower Block equivalent of a Raised Bed for them on top of a redundant Chest Freezer (as ya do?!) and then we replanted them in an ordinary raised bed a year later. They did well there, and then developed 'Runners' of their own.

Having recently moved house, I am SO thrilled that I dug up and repotted every single plant, and every single 'Runner', because the sheer amount of flower on the majority of them, are making my mouth water for the months ahead. And at last count, there were 40 Runners and probably 60 mature plants. The Runners have filled their small square pots with roots in only a matter of a few weeks, and are showing both flower and fruit, having been TLC'd in a cold greenhouse since leaving Holly Cottage.

The mature 'dug up' plants are in small troughs outside and open to all the elements, but on staging and well away from ground pests. These are also flowering and beginning to fruit.
Bumper year me thinks for those, and then, like the new Rhubarb, it'll be a few new Perpetual varieties to add in order to 'extend the seasons', which is always a great thing to do if you've got the room.

Absolutely nothing more beautiful than the smell of a ripe Strawberry up your nose telling you to pick it and eat it.
Can't wait.... Can You?! X

[Germinater]

Almost all my strawberries are flowering now.. My applies have been flowering for the last3 weeks bt only just started to fruit after a little hand pollanation as I don't think there's alot of bugs about at the mo..raspberries also started to flower to so can't wait to see how long it takes before I get my first crop this year .think I will continue with hand pollanation at the mo though just in case

[p-wiseman]

Regarding Strawberries

I got strawberries in the summer and not sure what type they are as i took slips from my fathers garden and planted, the thing is in the summer they were great i had flowering and then plenty strawberries, but now its november and i happened to be out in the garden the other planting bulbs for spring when i checked the strawberries as i found the leaves weren't dying off like my fathers would do every winter and come back strong again the next year. What i found was that i had up to 60 flowers on my plant as if they are about to fruit again, is this normal or is it due to the mild weather we have been gettin lately??

P.S. Only got into gardeing this year so any tips would be really appreciated

[singleseeder]

I would be inclined to snip all of the flowers off; they are not going to come to anything. The plant can save it's energy for next year then.

[veggiechicken]

I have flowers and green strawberries.