Strawberry bare root plants

[Messi1986]

Sorry if this is a silly question. I have ordered 50 bare root plants for my allotment. I won't recieve them until November. My question is if I plant them in spring will I get a crop the same year? Thanks

[roitelet]

If they are bare root I would plant them in the ground as soon as possible to give them a chance to get established. You should get a crop from them next year but it wont be as good as the crop you will get in 2019!

[Messi1986]

If they are bare root I would plant them in the ground as soon as possible to give them a chance to get established. You should get a crop from them next year but it wont be as good as the crop you will get in 2019!

So do you think I should snip off all flowers that appear?

[Ryez]

Yes, I would definitely plant them, but maybe mulch them or even cover them with some frost protection fabric if the winter there is too cold! Many people snip the flowers in the first year, I didn't because I was too excited to get some strawberries and taste them!

[starloc]

I have always had fruit first year even when planting bare root plants (even when I forgot to plant them untill April/May ) , I have never taken the flowers off first year ,they just don't produce that much fruit till the year after, plant as soon as you get them and they get established much quicker so more fruit next year.
If when you get them the round is frozen outside, plant them in pots outside for over the winter and plant in spring.
They should bee fine with the cold , we get -25C to -30C and they are fine in pots or the ground with no protection over them

[Messi1986]

Thanks a lot. More than likely the ground will be frozen up here in Sunderland. Thanks again.