Fresh air strawberry runners

[sewer rat]

Hi folks
I have sixty hanging baskets planted up with strawbs which are producing fruit and have now started to throw out runners. I know the standard method for propagating runners but can it be done with runners in fresh air by using moss and polythene, or can they be cut from the mother plant and still be propagated successfully? Any advice welcome

[rustylady]

Try the moss/compost method SR. They will then start producing roots enough to pot on.

[smc999]

I brough my first Strawberry plant last year and now have Strawberry pot with 8 plants in (7 of which are from the original plant). The way I did it was to leave the runner until it had started to have small roots and leaves appearing (just left hanging in midair). I then cut it and potted them into 3" pots up to the leaves in bog standard compost and left them over Winter in the greenhouse. I read somewhere that second year plants give the best fruit, so by taking the runners and potting them up each year I can have a constant supply of second year plants. I hade a load of my strawberries on bank holiday Monday with vanilla ice cream, lovely!

[sewer rat]

Cheers for the advice - I think I'll give both methods a try and see which works best for me. Thanx again

[percy charlie]

leave the runners be until aug or september when you will see roots have formed this is when they are ready for planting and can be snipped of with no loss to the runner. i grow mine in pots and just stand a pot of compost at the side and peg in to get the roots of to a better start, but you dont have to.

[Pots Of Fruit]

Put them in water

Hi there, I just did an experiment with my alpine strawberries to see if I could get their psuedo runners to root. I cut some off and put two into a jar of water. Within 10 days they have produced very good roots. The two I planted in soil died...oops. I'd say the same method could be used for the normal strawberry runners....I'm going to try it later in the year myself..

60 hanging baskets...that's a lot of strawberries!

[Finedon.Dandy]

Would love a photo of all your baskets!