Strawberries B&Q and compost at Lidls FYI

Also got some Strawberries at B&Q Elsanta 6 for £4.98, thats 83p per pot which was cheaper than Wyevale which was £1.49 a pot.  Only wanted a few so not worth buying online as they seem to sell in large numbers.  

Went to Lidls (Bognor Regis) which is nearby to see if they had those Strawberries mentioned think it was £2.00 for six, but no sign of them.  Hate our Lidls anyway as they trap you in there you can't get out unless you barge past peeps in queue or try to get someone to open chain across closed tills, so I usually have to buy something to escape.

But Lidls did have some compost 40 ltres at £1.99 and some bark don't know size for 1.99 (not certain on bark).

Yeah I noticed the veg plants too.  I'll let you know how the strawberries did at the end of the season.

I bought strawberries in B & Q last year and they were lovely only problem was the slugs and woodlice kept getting to them before I had chance to pick them.  Also had lots of new plants from them.

I bought some strawberries in B&Q last year and they were quite nice. Not a lot of them especially since the kids got to them even faster than the slugs!
I bought some seeds this year but they did not germinate. So I will buy some plants!

You have to remember when you buy strawberries, you're really buying them for the next year. First year is usually never impressive. Second year is when production gets really good. If you're lucky, third year will be as well. Then their productivity goes down again and you need to replace. So I take runners from 1st year plants and keep them to grow on. Then the first ones will go through their 2nd year glut... then those babies I took of them the year before will produce their 2nd year glut the next year, and so on and so forth. Try not to take more than 1 runner from a plant and cut off any extras so it keeps the energy in the roots of the main plant to produce those strawberries, not in producing loads of baby plants.