Alpine or Mignonette Strawberry Experience?

[veg4681]

Has anybody got experience with Mignonette or any other alpine strawberry (that is similar to Mignonette)? I've got what looks like hundreds of miniature baby plants but not really sure what to do with them. Quite clueless as to how many plants I can squeeze in a final pot. Would I be better off potting them onto indivdual 3" pots or could I put 5 plants in each pot, like I say hundreds!

[swaine]

pot them up into individaul pots 3inch,
then from there into the garden, they will need dividing at the end of year because your 1 plant will turn into 4-5 or more plants so your hundreds are quickly gonna be thousands,
they will give little fruit in 3 inch pots usually 4-5 berries, but in the ground youll get loads,

[TonyF]

I have them all over the garden, as well as having half my strawberry patch given over to them. I'd dispense with the pots completely and get them into the ground. In the UK I used them as ground cover on my herb bed because space was much more limited. Here I have them everywhere and have just planted them up as ground cover on the bank at the back of the house, in front of the potager. They're also great as ground cover under soft fruit bushes.

The joy of having them all over the garden is that I get the majority (J LOVES them on her brekkie cereal) the varmints get a few but there are always loads to eat - and they're great in clafoutis.

[Alison]

Mine are currently in 3" pots but when they've got a bit bigger they will be transplanted into window boxes so hopefully I'll get a decent crop without them going mental around the garden.