We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.

This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.

📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide

Bumper strawberry crop?

zerodashzero · 2008-05-02 15:14:35

Hello! I've just been given a couple of strawberry plants & wondered if I need to do anything "special" with them to guarantee a bumper crop? I think I read somewhere about removing some of the new flower buds to encourage better growth? (But that might have had nothing to do with strawbs?!) Any advice would be welcomed!…

Comments

Farway Posts: 15,234 Forumite

4 May 2008 at 2:30PM

Paulo wrote: »

I have a few strawberry plants, should any runners between them be cut or just left? Some of the plant are quite small.

You should try & restrict the runners to about 3 per plant, you can pot these on for new stock

If you do not want new stock cut them all off

The idea being to help the original plant use it's energy on building itself up for next year's fruit instead of sending out runners

When an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray
0