Transplanting strawberries

[Reks]

Hello All,
I bought 3 strawberry plants earlier this year and potted them in a largish rectangular pot planning to keep them in my garden. Since then I have made fair progress digging and planting veggies on my allotment. So last week I bought 5 more from car boot sale. Now I would like to plant all the strawberry plants into my allotment. Question is - is it ok to transplant strawberry plants? The ones I planted earlier this year has its first flower too. I read on this forum that they are best planted with bare roots i.e. scrape compost off roots rather than plant with roots in compost ball. Also is it advisable to remove first flowers (I remember reading that too but can't find the post) so the plant grows more flowers and more fruits.

Thnx

[BFG]

I'd never heard the remove the soil from the roots thing. Sounds interesting.

I'd keep some plants at home too. Strawbs are the sort of nice thing you want to pick and eat instantly when you wander past a nice newly ripened juicy fruit.

[terrier]

I have a few growing in the flower borders for that reason. I think if you are transplanting strawbs now, you are expecting to harvest the fruits next year.

[Reks]

Ok. Thanks terrier and BFG, I'll leave them as it is and enjoy the ripe fruits later this year

[FoxHillGardener]

I think they only do the bare root ones to make transportation easier and cheaper and its done when they're dormant. I want to move some of mine too; I put them in a stupid place. I'm going to let them fruit this year (their first fruiting) then move them in the autumn to their new home