Anyone else gone mad with strawb plants?

[Nicos]

We thinned out our strawberry beds in the spring and put the healthiest runners in a raised bed just to get them established..........

They now look so healthy I can't think of what to do with them other than leave them there!!
Oh well .............strawberry soup anyone??????

[janeyo]

I have about 25 plants, some new this year some 2 years old and some runners from last year. They are all on flower, and all in tubs and troughs. My 3 year old goes MAD for them and last year nobody got a look in - he wolfed them from the plants when he found them they cheeky beggar. He even sat on the floor one day waiting for them to go red and wouldn't come in for any proper lunch lol.
He planted loads of them up this year so tells me thay are all his again. Think his baby brother will have something to say about that as he seems to love them too.

Think next year we may need a designated bed for them all as some of them are shooting runners already and there are only so many troughs of strawbs that will fit on the patio, lol.

You can't have enough of them in our opinion as they only fruit for a few weeks, this seems to be the case for me no matter which variety I buy, they all mature at the same time.

janeyo

oh yes and I also have some baby plants on the greenhouse ready for next year, grew them from seed and got 6 out of 15. Not a bad ratio as they were the first seeds I ever sowed! They took forever to show but looking good now.

[Gary66]

I remember at my last house in my old life, we bought three plants. By the time I moved here, the garden was basically a strawberry production site. The blackbirds were the fattest in town. They tended to walk everywhere...

I just planted about six that are flowering already and I bought some seeds that are just poking thorough in the green house. The blackies don't know what's coming!

[Norm]

Does the 200 I have in the polytunnel count as going mad?

[sewer rat]

I have 60 baskets of strawbs hanging in my tunnel at the mo but the plan is for a similar sized second tunnel (approx 24' x 60') to be erected over the coming year and for it to house nothing but strawberries and CCA salad leaves. I haven't worked out how many plants I can fit in but I will use a tabletop system.
I have three varieties at present -Honeoye, Elsanta and Symphony but Elsanta (mid season) is already ahead of the others and the fruits are both plentiful and huge (and very very tasty )