New Strawberries!

[marninator80]

Hi, I've had some strawberries sent to me in mail and I have planted them out in my allotment. Everything is looking good and they have started to flower. I recently came across something by accident that you should pinch out the flowers on new strawberry plants to promote better root growth, so you will get a better crop the following season! Is this true??

[Jay22]

New take on the question above.

I have strawberry plants which are throwing out runners good style. Question is...after you have put the runners you want into pots, what does everyone else do with the runners you don't use? I would have hundreds of new plants if I used them all.

[flynch]

Strawberry

Hi, I've had some strawberries sent to me in mail and I have planted them out in my allotment. Everything is looking good and they have started to flower. I recently came across something by accident that you should pinch out the flowers on new strawberry plants to promote better root growth, so you will get a better crop the following season! Is this true??

I always pinch the flowers and runners in the first year, my plants get huge. Some places sell super crowns which are 2 years old already. The choice is yours though, you could experiment pinch half and leave the others and see if it makes a difference next year.


As for excess runners, you can prune them out or root them and give them away.

[Jungle Jane]

Information on here says don't allow more than five runners from each plant,cut off any extras~
BBC - Gardening - Gardening Guides - Techniques - Growing strawberries

[lottie dolly]

I have just had delivery of some new plants,2 were flowering,so chopped em of at the roots as this time of year will be no good,so the little plants should preserve what they have for next year,