I have 5-6 strawberry plants on the side of the house, and recently, one of the plants has begun to bloom and set fruit. One of the plants is potted in a hanging planter that used to be home to the upside down tomato. Because the plant is hanging, the runners grow over the side. These two runners were hanging 3 ft down from the pot this morning.Each of the two runners has two large clumps of leaves and roots growing from the node by the leaves. Even though they were growing int he air, roots still form.
I took one of two runners and shoved the roots and a small portion of the leaves into a strawberry pot that I have on the front porch. I did this with both clumps of roots on each of the two runners. Then, I watered the strawberry pot, and pretty soon, I'll have four new strawberry plants!
Hi, I have been trying to figure out what part of my strawberry plant is the runner. For these everbearing plants and my zone (5) I am supposed to remove them until around the beginning of July and I don't know what i am looking for! I'll check back here to see if you've seen my question. Thanks in advance.
ReplyDeleteminty
Hi Minty-
ReplyDeleteIn the photo on my blog there are two runners which I snipped from the main strawberry plant. Not all strawberry varieties have runners. Each runner just looks like a green twig that springs from the center of the main strawberry plant. Then, after 6-8 inches, a little mini strawberry plant will begin to grow, then another long twiggy runner will spring again from the new plant. On each of the runners in this photo, two mini plants have begun to form.
The plant needs to spend its energy producing fruit, not runners. That's why you are supposed to be cutting off the runners. Hope this helps!
Yes it does. Good thing I figured this out before I cut off too many more leaves, haha.
ReplyDeleteThanks alot
Minty
Excellent tips strawberry planting, it will helpful to me as well, thanks
ReplyDeleteI tried this with my runners, but had no luck. The runners were not as developed as yours though. They did have little bits of roots beginning to grow from the bunches.
ReplyDeleteI started my strawberries from seed from a strawberry.
Check out my blog at http://lysasgarden.blogspot.com for details.