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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!…

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Farway Posts: 14,686 Forumite

4 May 2008 at 3:30PM

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

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