How many Strawberry plants growing

[Elfeda]

This month have been strawberry month for me, like I collected few, then bought 25 plants from Aldi. I even had to cancel these plants order as I would be geting huge number of plants free from offers in coming weeks.

I want to grow them only in containers , still might come around 100 plants. all I paid is for deliveries or got them from friendly others. want to grow them all in layers or pots only and might move them on to ground during winter months.

Now I wonder How many verieties or number of plants you all have been growing and how etc.. Any one successfull with growing them in layers and moving on to ground after the crop is completed.

[WendyC]

My strawberries, Gariguette, are all in the ground, I think I have about 30 plants. I have some runners to plant out and the old plants will go after this year's fruiting. Watch out for vine weevils if growing in pots, they love strawberries. What do you mean by growing in layers?

[Guest]

I have 5 wall baskets (framberry - red dream, pineberry - anablanca, Elvira - Early, Korona - Mid, Florence - Late)
2 tower planters (mailing opal - Everbearing and cambridge fav. )
Then 2 gutters full in the greenhouse (honeoye and duplicates)
A total of 70 plants I think. Where I live it would be completely pointless to grow strawbs in the ground (mice)

I have some wild/alpine strawbs but no one likes them so they are just ornamental

[sparrow100]

I have about 200 plants - but I don't really look after them. They are too close together and I don;t tidy the runners. I get a lot of berries though.

[Alison]

I have 12 first year, 12 second year and 12 third year plants at the plot. Also have an unknown number at home. The ones at the plot give me hundreds, eating them every meal plus loads for jam etc. They're in the ground though and I think they do much better there than in pots.

[maverick451]

2 tower planters (mailing opal - Everbearing and cambridge fav. )

Are the planters any good? was looking at them today

[Guest]

Are the planters any good? was looking at them today

I have 2 types - a cheapy discount shop one and an expensive Ken Muir one. I don't rate them any more than any other pot. It is the care you put in rather than the container in my opinion. You can make a similar thing my stacking smaller pots on top of each other and staking/ securing it through the middle.

I also agree that ground grown does give more crops.

[bramble]

I have grown them in containers, in window boxes and in the ground.
It doesnt matter how well you look after them in containers, the ones in the ground will always give a better crop.

[pigletwillie]

I have a big strawberry tower with roud 60 plants and a further 30 or so planted under cordoned fruit trees. I have far too many strawberrys every year.

[Jay22]

Reading the title of this thread I keep seeing Hogmanay Strawberry...how good would that taste?!

[Elfeda]

Watch out for vine weevils if growing in pots, they love strawberries. What do you mean by growing in layers?

What is vine weevils !!!

Layers in the sence I have choosen some strawberry towers (3), strawberry planter bags from suttons (2), rest should go into tubs, troughs and pots .

[veggiechicken]

Reading the title of this thread I keep seeing Hogmanay Strawberry...how good would that taste?!

I've edited the title to make you look even nuttier

[Jay22]

Oh thank you VC...will soon be able to join the club!

[veggiechicken]

Here ya go Jay http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...s%27+club.html Jjust answer a few questions when you join to show us how worthy a member you are

[WendyC]

What is vine weevils !!!

Layers in the sence I have choosen some strawberry towers (3), strawberry planter bags from suttons (2), rest should go into tubs, troughs and pots .

Vine weevils are point nosed beetles about a centimetre long. They are a dull brown colour and crunch when squashed. They chew notches out of leaves but it is their larvae which are the real problem. The White C shaped grubs eat the roots of plants such as strawberries, primulas and fuchsias. If you see a plant failing, looking like it needs a water, if you give it a pull it will come out of the ground with no roots.