Cheap strawberry plants

ALIBOBSY

Last year I got 6 plants for £1.49 from lidl and they did very well. With the runners we pushed in and potted we now have 15 plants . Mind you fancy a different variety as well so gonna watch out for aldi/lidl offers.
BTW we also tried seed as DD1 wanted to give it a go. Cost alot (think it was £1.99) for 20 seeds only 4 of which germinated and 2 of which are still alive. The 2 we grew from seed now look about the same size as the ones that were from runners, so plants is defo the way to go.

ali x

shy_at_the_till

I bought a box from the 99p store with two strawberry plants inside. TBH they actually looked like two sets of tangled roots, black-ish with no life in them. I read the instructions and it has been two weeks since I planted them, with no success. I do not know if I shoud keep the pot indoors or outdors. Has anybody bought these from the 99p store and did the plant grow at all?

peter_the_piper

We all fall into that trap sometimes, recently Lidl had Blueberry plants cheap, bought 4, all had a wad of compost around where the roots should be. On opening 2 had no roots and 2 were iffy. Not worth taking them back as we live too far out in countryside and only shop fortnightly. Would not advise buying from shops which treat plants as a commodity.

ixwood

I've had great success with the cheap aldi/lidl/netto plants. They're great. Getting there asap after they arrive and choosing carefully help.

pingua

shy_at_the_till wrote: »

I bought a box from the 99p store with two strawberry plants inside. TBH they actually looked like two sets of tangled roots, black-ish with no life in them. I read the instructions and it has been two weeks since I planted them, with no success. I do not know if I shoud keep the pot indoors or outdors. Has anybody bought these from the 99p store and did the plant grow at all?

Sorry but no luck with my clump of tangled roots either. We have ours indoors but I am not holding any hope for them now.

peter_the_piper

Not very MSE but its sometimes cheaper to pay more for a potted/growing plant than cheaper smaller plants which sometimes fail.

sb44

I bought a pack of 4 Strawberry Temptation plug plants today in Wilkinsons which were 4 for £1.50.

I am going to plant them in either a hanging basket or in various sized pots to form a pyramid.

daska

My bundle of strawberry plants from the Gardening Wold offer (Fothergills) turned up looking like a great deal of nothing and were left in my unsheltered porch still wrapped in their plastic for well over a week while I was away. I planted them up last week (one fatality where the toddler tried to 'help') and, surprisingly enough, they're now doing very nicely, looking very healthy indeed...!

sb44

sb44 wrote: »

I bought a pack of 4 Strawberry Temptation plug plants today in Wilkinsons which were 4 for £1.50.

I am going to plant them in either a hanging basket or in various sized pots to form a pyramid.

The container they came in is going to be quite useful too.

The bottom of the container has quite a bit of clear gel in there and the black seed tray is a nice shape plus you can fold the lid over, hold it down with an elastic band and you have a tiny little greenhouse for your seeds.

rhiwfield

Offer of 10 strawberry plants ( 5 honeoye and 5 elsanta) for £2.99 P&P in Tesco's Grow Cook and Eat (£4.99 but which came with 6 free seed packets, tomato, chilli, salad leaves carrots, calabrese, cabbage)