[allotmentvegigirl]

Hello All
A few of my strawberry plants have sent out runners.  I have read that these can be 'pegged' down at around this time of year to form another plant.  Please can someone explain 'pegging down'?? :oops: I was planning to just cut these off and soak in a cup of water until roots form and then re pot.

[welsh boyo]

have a look here. www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=20759
 

edited by DD. to put space between full stop & "www"

[allotmentvegigirl]

Thanks fo that welsh boyo.  I read that post but didnot understand!! :oops: So I leave the runner attached to mother plant and plant into a pot? Once rooted I plant out and detach from mother plant?

[DD.]

From the other thread..

Peg them into a pot. Cut off the runner when rooted.

Thought I'd kept it simple enough!

[allotmentvegigirl]

Thanks DD   I'm off to peg down my runners now !!!!

[DD.]

Thanks DD   I'm off to peg down my runners now !!!!

You're best to do it the correct way, don't follow my way as per the other thread!

[new_2_veg]

can runners just be cut and potted up?


nathan

[DD.]

In my experience the larger ones may take root, but be prepared for failures.

As I said on the other thread, generally by the time I get around to it, most have rooted in the ground, I dig them up & take them home in a big bag & pot them up!

Yod would have more sucess in letting them establish undisturbed roots.

[Yabba]

I assume that Yod is an expert strawberry grower? :roll:

Our strawberries have done * all this year, but at least they threw out some runners which I intend to dig up after they've established themselves ( cos I follow the almighty Yods guide to strawberry growing ) and slap into plots.

Hopefully next year we'll have a field full ... well, a couple of square feet at least, we have a very small back garden ... I'm an optimist

¥

[peapod]

My lovely strawberry plant (a present in a very nice pot) developed loads of strawbs, so i kept it in the GH until I got round to netting it

I found this morning most of my strawbs have rotted off :-(
Serves me right for babying the chillies and ignoring the strawbs :-(

Paula

[crowndale]

most have mine have rotted off too.  but the ones I got were good but found I got less this year from twice the number of plants than last year so think I'll cut my losses, dig the lot up and replant the runners somewhere else.  not enough light really where they are.  but the raspberries have been great.  had my summer harvest, now waiting on the autumn one.  hmmm.  blackberries have gone mad and think I shall have to resite this as well as my next door neighbours have a rather pretty climbing plant of some sort  on the trellis where the blackberries also grow and the flowering climber is prettier than the blackberries!  and again not enough light where they are.

[DD.]

I assume that Yod is an expert strawberry grower? :roll:

Don't be daft - he's that well known typong errer!

[allotmentvegigirl]

After reading DD's post, I went straight up to lottie and planted runners in pots while still attached to mother plant.  As sunday is lottie day in my house - the s/berrys runners was the first thing I looked at today.  All 3 runners had good roots present - so i cut them from the mother plant and re planted them.  Just wnated to say a BIG thank you for all your advice!  Now I have 3 extra plants -   When the fruit has finish for this year do I need to cut back the plant and cover for the winter - or just leave them - Should I feed them in the early part of next year??

[Trillium]

When the plant finishes fruiting, cut off the old leaves, the ones that are going brown and red, but leave the new baby leaves at the crown. And feed now, which is when the plant most needs it for those new leaves and roots. To feed next spring is to ask for soft, quickly rotting fruit.

[cawdor2001]

after getting the runner plantlets to grow in a cup/pot whatever when would you then plant them out into their new positions for next years crop?

Cawdor