OK to move strawberries?

Hi.

I planted sone strawbs last spring and they didn't do too well. Perhaps to be expected - they were very young and it was extremely dry down here and I simply couldn't keep up with the watering.

There are quite a few runners that I want to plant up but I want to move the whole shebang to a different spot. Is it OK to move the 'old' plants now or will that effect their potential for lots of fruit next year? If there's any risk of that I might, reluctantly, leave them where they are.

Varieties are Florence and Royal Sovereign (if that matters).

Thanks.

Thanks, but a bit worried that, on that thread, DD said "established plants don't like being moved."

Any views on that?

if you decide to move them then leave as much dirt on the roots as you can

If you have to move them, as digalotty says, try taking a great big clump of soil with them. As I an other have found out, if you disturb an established plant when trying to dig a dock weed out, for instance, it doesn't take too kindly to being put back in.

I dont know if it helps, but we planted 75 strawberries in March/April when we got allotment. But they we decided they were taking up too much space, so we built a strawberry pyramid. We moved 50 strawberries into the new planter in August. Yes, they looked a bit fed up for about 2 weeks, but are going mad again now. Some are producing fruit (have 3 different varieties) and the others are madly throwing out runners! lol. We have since dug out the other 25, mounded up their bed and covered in black matting and re-planted. Again, they looked a bit fed up for a week or 2, but they have also perked up. We watered well for first few days and then left them to it. We didn't even leave much soil around the roots because DH just dug them out before i had a chance to tell him to leave the roots alone as much as possible. lol