advice on growing strawberries

ALIBOBSY

Lidl are having a green weekend next week and are selling 6 plants for £2.99.

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DebbieP_2

I've just got a strawberry planting barrel from the internet - got it through yesterday! I can't say how well it works yet but it's certainly looking good on the patio!:j
Not allowed to post a link but I got it from a company callled Primrose London, you could probably search in google...

butterfly72

hardpressed wrote: »

I've planted my strawberry bed, what's the best alternative to straw to put round them to keep the fruit off the soil and away from the slugs?

I'm interested in this too. Anyone?!

VanyaHargreeves

I have strawberries formed on my plant but they seem to have just stopped growing - should I give the plant some feed?

RoxyUK

I have my first strawberry plants growing nicely in a window box! Lots of flowers are showing up with buds appearing too so very excited about the prospect of some delicious strawberries sometime in the near future, this thread has been really good reading!!! Looking forward to seeing everyones results.

Melonade

I got 6 strawberry plants a few weeks ago from Aldi and they are doing fine They were marked up early, mid summer and late (2 of each) The late ones are flowering first but the other 2 kinds are growing runners What should I do with the runners? I nearly took them off because I thought maybe the plant should be growing flowers/fruit first?

On one plant I can now see definate strawberries growing :jI'm really excited (how sad am I ) might get a pic later if I remember.

I might put weed control fabric round the bottom when the fruit is showing... I read you can use shredded paper too.

point3

Picked our first 2 strawberries yesterday.

ceridwen

I'd be interested to know what to do with runners as well - I can see some developing at a rate of knots and am wondering whether one is supposed to chop them off and pot them up as "plants-to-be" or what?

Melonade

ceridwen wrote: »

I'd be interested to know what to do with runners as well - I can see some developing at a rate of knots and am wondering whether one is supposed to chop them off and pot them up as "plants-to-be" or what?

If you want to keep the runners I think you should push the end into a small pot of compost and secure it with something, then when it's grown some roots you can cut it away from the plant. I don't know how long it takes till you can cut it though or even if I'm right

I'd like to keep some runners but I'm just a bit worried it might slow down the strawberries growing and maybe I should keep runners from later int he year.

buxtonrabbitgreen

My strawberries are in a patch in the ground, and I just leave them to do their own thing. We get more every year, they seem to just put down the runners.