trailing strawberries

[jaimie]

Hello everyone

I bought some trailing (rambling, climbing) strawberry plants earlier this year, put them in hanging baskets and they seem to be thriving, producing runners with 5 or six plantlets along their length. But what do I do with them in the winter. I have always removed runners off my normal strawberry plants, but if I cut these off the plants will have to begin again next season, and I thought the object of these long runners was to have hanging strawberries.

And if I keep them where they are now (hanging on my pergola) will they need protection from winter weather. Or maybe I should move them inside.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

[gojiberry]

Don't know if I can be of much help as I have never seen trailing strawberries. All I can say is that the crown of a strawberry can be killed by frost, and your plantlets hanging down will have no protection from frosts so I cant see them surviving unless you bring them indoors. I would be inclined to cut them off and plant them up and see what happens over the next year. If you are wrong you wont have lost much but gained some extra plants.

Ian

[jaimie]

Don't know if I can be of much help as I have never seen trailing strawberries. All I can say is that the crown of a strawberry can be killed by frost, and your plantlets hanging down will have no protection from frosts so I cant see them surviving unless you bring them indoors. I would be inclined to cut them off and plant them up and see what happens over the next year. If you are wrong you wont have lost much but gained some extra plants.

Ian

Thanks for the advice. More or less what I thought. I'll follow your suggestions about cutting them off and planting them up with half of them, and take the others into a frost fee place, or wrap them , and see how it all turns out next year.