[Paul Plots]

Plantlets!.... that's the thing to peg down.

Thanks DD - even I understand what I was trying to suggest now we have the right name! 

[DD.]

when should the strawberries be producing runners?

i didnt get any last year and and not seen any so far this year...

What variety have you got? Some send out little or no runners.

[Missy1970]

My plants are in the first year put in earlier this year, whilst I didnt expect much I thought I may have had one or two strawberries looks like my fault for not removing the runners which have gone mad - am I too late now should I cut them off or has the damage to the plant been done???

Thanks
Missy

[plum crumble]

do you put plantlets in soil?

[operabunny]

I don't wait for proper plantlets to form - as soon as the runner appears (they are so fast!) I peg down the bud where the leaves will form. They usually root really quickly so the mother plant doesn't have to support them for long at all.

Not 'by the book', I know, but it works for me and my strawbs

[Paul Plots]

I don't wait for proper plantlets to form - as soon as the runner appears (they are so fast!) I peg down the bud where the leaves will form. They usually root really quickly so the mother plant doesn't have to support them for long at all.

Not 'by the book', I know, but it works for me and my strawbs

I think that's what I am going to do to avoid all those pots of new plants.

What do you do with the new lot once the season is over... just leave them where they are or find space for a new strawberry bed?

(Up to now mine have been successful more by good chance than good management!  )

[DD.]

I never bother to peg down.

They all seem to root of their own accord & there's plently to go around when I tidy up at the end of the season, either to give away, or make a new bed.

[mumofstig]

I always used to dig up some of the oldest and keep some of the healthiest new plants to replace them.

[JayG]

Mine is Albion (note the singular; an impulse buy from Ludlow market last year!) which has already produced quite a few delicious berries all on its little ownsome.

Obviously I'm more interested in looking for runners than most, but as a perpetual variety I'm wondering if it is going to produce any. If not, how do the pro's propagate them?

Anyone have any experience of this one?

[DD.]

If not, how do the pro's propagate them?

I understand a new technique is now available for propagating plants.

Seed.

[mumofstig]

If not, how do the pro's propagate them?

I understand a new technique is now available for propagating plants.

Seed.

and not even a smile.........very cruel 

[DD.]

Oh OK.