[RosieMay]

This is my first posting on here so I hope I'm doing it right 

I've cut the runners off my strawberries and potted up the little strawberry plants so,
1.  Is it ok to overwinter them in the pots and should they be outside or in the greenhouse?
and 2.  will they fruit next year or do they take time to mature?

Hope this doesn't sound too basic! 

Thank you.

[digalotty]

you should leave the runners on the plant and pot them up then after a couple of weeks when they have developed their own roots,   cut them from the mother plant

[RosieMay]

Oops - too late!  Well, they did have little roots on them so I hope they will be ok    I've only just joined the forum, or I would have asked a couple of days ago!

[Dave Mack]

Yeah Rosie ... as digalotty said , i've had my runners potted up ( still connected to the Mummy plant ) for 2 weeks now , the root system was just ready to put them in the main bed 

[digalotty]

if you have any on the plant still then pot them ,   i do have a crazy idea that if you feed the ones you have already potted they might just survive ........  worth a try

[RosieMay]

...  poor little things.  I'm feeling so guilty I cut them off their Mummy and now they are all alone in their pots in the pouring rain    I'll talk to them nicely tomorrow.  Will let you know if they pull through 

[A. Fallowfield]

Glad you asked this Rosie May, I have pots of compost all over my strawberry bed with runners hair-gripped down!
So when they take, do I leave 'em out, or put 'em in the polytunnel?

[Trikidiki]

I leave mine outside, they're perfectly hardy.

Put some in the polytunnel if you want an earlier crop.

[JayG]

I won't bore you with another picture of my single "Albion" strawberry plant bought last autumn but I have to say I am now quite scared of what it might do next! 

This year it has already produced two crops of lovely large strawberries and about 20 new plants from runners (it would have been more but I've had to stop it in its tracks!)

Three of the new plants, which have only just rooted, are now flowering and trying to produce a crop themselves (not potted, just left to do their own thing!)

(For more information please tune into Dragon's Den sometime in the near future!) 

[Babstreefern]

To do this, you plant the runners (where the little leaves are) in 3" plots or similar, still attached to the mother plant, and leave for a couple of weeks or so, until they take root.  Then you cut the cord from the mother plant.  Then you can plant them in your strawberry plot now.  You don't need to "over winter" them.

I've just done a dozen new babies and I'm planting them this weekend