As a home gardener on a budget but with a bit of space, I can't stress enough how easy it is to propagate strawberries. I started with a couple near dead strawberries from the local hardware store at the end of season 10 years ago. This spring, after dropping compost next to my strawberry patch at the end of last year and growing beans adjacent to it last year, I literally pulled over 150 brand new strawberry plants out of my garden which had runnered over into the beans/compost area. And my whole big patch is from those 2 bedraggled plants 10 years ago.
My runners ((next yrs plants) have come from 20 yr old mother plants I've never had to buy more because of these WONDERFUL RUNNERS. Rotate the older ones with the newer ones... easy when you care enough.
That is good for small operations to keep your strawberry plants. Big operation like his and mine, the plants are only good for one season. The risk for disease and increase bugs like mites will be worse the next year. Fixing drip lines and torn plastic is also increase expense.
Yes I would say that’s how modern agriculture works. Big ag companies make the start product for other farmers. Seeds, potatoes, onions, animals, strawberry plants, etc.. as a farmer you get the “starts” for Pennies by the thousands. In the industry that black plastic yearly waste is also called “mulch” yeah I know as an organic gardener that one is painful.
Here in the Netherlands strawberries are planted in gutters, so they can grow them in tiers, and the strawberries hang and stay clean. After Harvest the gutters with plants are brougth to a cooling house, often an fruit storage, and chilled for some time. They are transferred back to the farm/Greenhouse(depends on month) and start flowering again because they think it's spring. It's a rotating system, so when plants are transferred to the cooling house others are taken out and start producing fruit in the same space the other plants are taken from.
Pino colada I grow my strawberries in gutters, but the variety is so small that they don't hang from it, the fruit sits on the dirt and gets moldy. Any advice? 😊 thank you
@@mariap.894 Put straw underneat the plants. Thats the reason they are called strawberries. My father sometimes did it, they were clean and not moldy. Without straw they were covered in sand. Do not use hay, hay will become moldy.
We at Blue Eye Strawberries Also plant in the fall but used runner from our mother plant and we plant about 15000 new plants every year! All plants come from one-year-old mother plants never had any disease problems in twenty-five years of doing this! At Blue Eye Strawberries we raise four kinds of berry three June bearing and one everbearing Ozark Beauty!!
You hear nursery suppliers tell stories like that about propagating all kinds of plants and trees. They use to say if you propagated a tree it would never grow fruit.
As a home gardener, after the first year, my grandfather would plant his strawberry rows spaced so that every year, he tilled the main row. So this year's daughter plants were next years main row.
Does that take the place of chemical fertilizer or do you still need to supplement them when using this method? First year growing them so learning all i can lol
Farmer Dre, Great video! I see why so many folks follow you! You know your stuff! I’ve got a home garden and I allow SOME of mine to develop runners, let them move to the next row in the garden, and so far, that’s working well! With your advise, I’ll watch for any developing disease problems. Great video! Good tips for us at home!
I grow my own Quinault Strawberries because I prefer everbearing berries as I like to get them all summer. I just started them last year so I' been letting my runners spread them. Once my bed is filled, I will remove most of the runners. I'll keep a few to keep the bed fresh.
I recently been retrenched from the formal market.. I have free plastic, cheap labour's and a whole patch of strawberry bushes my mom planted a year ago... good land.. So I'm trying 1000 bushes... Wish me luck..
@Bohohank plastic factories that extrude or print plastic for thermoforming machines... find those factories and ask for rejected materials or misprint rolls
I bought a flat of 12 pineberries from lowes a few years ago. Now i have thousands of them they are ver yprolific. if you cant get pine berry plants you should try them. i also was lucky enought to find dsome wild alpine strawberries growing on a farm i used to work on and i pransplanted a few to my garden and i now have a large patch of them as well
If my strawberry bed is overcrowded, can I thin them out and plant them elsewhere after the first frost? You mentioned planting the runners in the fall. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
Usually yes. You can transplant them any time generally. Usually in the cool of the day/night. My mom does it in the heat of the day & doesn't have any issue's.
Good advice but a few riders, as I as an amateur gardener understand it you should remove all runners until fruiting has stopped and only allow runners to take after to keep the energy within the plant for fruit. Only the first 'daughter' plant on any runner should be potted up so snap off any further on the chain as any further daughters on the same runner will produce weaker plants next year. Take only a maximum of 3 runners from any one plant or it may weaken the 'mother' plant. Whether you take runners or not the plants should be replaced after 3 years as it becomes progressively poorer at fruiting as it ages so taking 'daughters' to replace them is a very good idea. As I say though, this is an armatures understanding so check it out yourselves.
This is very true..i practice this and my plant shoot out a lots of flower..unless im in a propagation mode, i will only allow one runner per plant..and no runner from runners are allowed
Do you ever have to treat your main plants for them having nematodes and if so how do you deal with this, thanking you in anticipation of hearing from you.
I am just starting to think about strawberry plants for a 2025 garden. Do you overwinter some of your plants, or replace them every year? Have you tried the red row cover?
Cool dude, love people who count their vegetables, flowers, fruit whatever. Like, my 25 thousand babies are doing good, etc.,etc. I happen to have planted (yes there is a video) 25 thousand pineapples. 6000 Hawaiian going in now, take me 3 more seasons to hit 45 like you brother!🍓🍍
I have my first year chrop this summer, I need to learn what to do with the plants this winter. I live in Alberta Canada we get moderate snow and -30*C. do I cover plants with mulch?
I had a great uncle that had a strawberry field that took up two city lots & they never had issue's with weak plants, small strawberries or disease. It seems like a waste of plant's & money to replace yearly & does composting really kill the potential diseases your worried abt? If you could, I'd keep a field for 1 year longer as a test plot to see how they produce the 2nd year. Maybe you could ultimately save some money or sell some of your plant's at the year to get some money back.
Putting in new plants evey year is not a waste if you are a commercial enterprise looking to reduce/"eliminate" risk of disease. It's a gamble.....save money and use old runners or spend money and buy certified disease free every year
At one point ,when I lived in Powell River, BC, Canada. I had a beautiful garden. Very well planed and cared for by me. We could have lived off of it. Maybe? The strawberry patch had to be watched. The strawberries would take over! But who doesn't love strawberries. They are due here in Ontario, a bit warm and wet, hurry! Swiss Chard, Beans (runners and bush) Peppers, (they wouldn't grow right in Ontario) Tomato's ( they grew better in Ontario, too much rain in BC)
Another great video!!! What do you do to keep birds and animals for eating your strawberries and tomatoes etc??? Just was wondering...??? Cause I keep having bird problems! Lol
I now keep my strawberries in my greenhouse. Otherwise they attract the birds who then eat the blueberries and so on. So I avoid feeding the birds strawberries to preserve my other fruits.
The sweet Charlie is what we have planted for the last 15 years they perform the best in north Texas we get out bare root plants from Koopes plants in california where do you get yours
Super funny I planted straw berries last year they did ok but I forgot to him then with fertilizer because we had such a bad drought I didn’t think my plant would even make it up north Canadian boarder well these guys popped up like 50 tiny tiny berries to small to eat well snow came and went snow just melted off my garden these guys are straight in the dirt nothing special we’ll snow melted two days ago and my strawberry plant is now giant !! It’s latterly triple in size under the snow and it’s stupid healthy looking it’s crazy
Thank you for all your videos my family were large produce Farmer's also retired from the army and now I plan on raising a large produce farm this year. Question for you is how do you plan on or how do you keep all the birds and turkeys and animals from eating your strawberries
Have you thought of selling your plants to you community at the end of the season instead of composting them or throwing them away ? I just bought 10 plants from gurneys I wonder if that is what I’m going to get ? A strawberry farmers discarded plants would be awesome for a home garden , I guess he’ll I don’t know !
Question. What is the farm attachment that sets up those rows and the black material. Curious if it's worth buying one for a smaller tractor to work about 4 acres of field. I have 18 acres of field to really play with.
Hello Dre I have a desert farm and would like to know if its possible to grow strawberries in the same way you are describing in a hot climate. Would like to know what I need for a start. Thank you. Ali
The runners produce entirety NEW plants, not different-- they are genetically the same as the mother plant that grew the runner. There is no pollination involved.
I have always heard that the second year for strawberries was the biggest year so it seems odd that you would pull and replant every year. Seems like you could cut your labor substantially by waiting for the second year.
@@farmerdre1 we ordered them again this year but weren't able to get them when we wanted them so had to get Chandlers instead. Last year they did ok didn't think they yield like chandler and some other varieties but they had alot of frost damage. But we had alot of regular customers that picked in then specifically because of how sweet they were
Good to hear! We planted 500 Ruby June's last fall. Can't wait to try them. The plants weren't as vigorous as the Chandlers we got but hoping they will do better as they green up this spring.
Hello colleague, I'm looking at you from far,from Georgia,(country,Caucasuss) I'm interested in your opinion on remontate varietyes, for example, San Andreas, Albion, Cabrillo, Murano, if you have worked with these varieties, and one more question, is the weather humid in your area? And if so, which species do you recommend to withstand high summer temperatures? thanks
Thanks for this video! You answered my question. I’m new to growing food in containers in my yard. I bought a strawberry plant from Menards & it is really growing. I didn’t know what “runners” were until your video! So that’s what’s growing. I have 2 long runners growing so I guess I can cut them off & possibly try to plant them in different containers. We will see what happens. Again, thanks for this information!!! 🪴 🍓
@@pamelaremme38 I have a strawberry plant which now has two flowers blooming, do I remove those flowers? Also I think I see a runner but haven't checked if there is a growth attached. Should I put plant in ground for winter and cover? I'm a bit confused and it's my first time growing strawberries. I'm in southern Ontario Canada (cold winters). Thanks
@@vickymarcon5612 Hi Vicky, Yes pull all flowers on new strawberry plants. Also snip off runners. What you need to focus on is root growth. Do you only have one strawberry plant? If you want a descent amount of strawberries get more plants. I put leaves over my strawberries for winter. I am in Wisconsin and we get very cold winters too. We had some -30 degree days/nights. Strawberry plants only produce nice big strawberries for about 3 years. I have a new bed next to my original that I am now planting my runners in so when my original plants start producing small berries I will have my other patch and till up my original and start the starters in that one. Make sense?
at 3.20 living and learning .. ya 🍻cheers mate. mother nature and live stock never get a day off and same with us older gentleman we are just better time managers
Thanks! My problem is they don't make many berries... so I heard that!: if you want more berry growth, pluck off the runners! They make far too many runners! I didn't know to pluck off runners. PS: Nothing to do with strawberries... I've also bought a strawberry tree. I had never heard of them, then I saw one in a park loaded with unique bright yellow, orange or red fruit. I said "That looks like arbutus berries, only way bigger!" (Arbutus Menzesies, Madrone) And I knew those were edible, tho tiny. Looked it up - Sure enough, it's "Arbutus Unedo". Apparently popular in the Mediterranean area. Nice fruit, no pit or anything, slightly 'gritty'(?) texture. The pie was good.
What kind of weedcloth do you use (in this video) to have your plants grow here without having to deal with weeds? Right now I only have a few plants, but, that weed fabric sure seems to be heavy duty, and would likely help prevent weeds IF I were to plant more strawberry or any plant. I have tried the HEAVY DUTY "geocloth" stuff that is used in professional landscaping situations, and have STILL ended up having weeds grow through even THAT. Raised beds do help with weeding though.
I'm doing pink a boo pineberry next year. Started seeds up this summer. I also have June bearing Chandler. And Fragaria Virginiana Woodland strawberry. I'm getting a super super rare veriety called Fragaria Daltoniana grows only in the hymalayas its hot pink in color. Low in taste it claims. but if I breed it with a larger sweeter veriety or the pineberry we will get a large hot pink tasty strawberry.
there are many organic fertilizers you can put before you plant, its hard to find good water souble organic fertilizer to pump through your irrigation system, i use calcium nitrate the most!
My strawberries are in the third year, this year the leaves are huge and the fruit smell devine. I sprinkle in Epsom salts and everything is strong and beautiful this year
Thank you, where did you find the plants? We have been struggling to find any to plant this fall (we are in north Texas so we need to get them in this month).
Dre, I understand your a farmer but if you find a variety you really like take 10 plants and convert them to growers so you get 1st year crop next year from the same variety??? So you dont run into the supply issue like you did with rocko? Its literally maybe 4 hrs of extra work for next years crop to plant them if you have the right tools. And your not spending money on buying plants which can be a very large investment
@@TheRainHarvester one thing strawberries are good at. Reproducing. I started with 10. And know I have a 20x40 ft patch of hybrids. June and ever bearing crossed. And I'm dealing with the end result.
Runners are genetic copies of the mother plant. They are not crossed with any other nearby varieties. You just have both varieties in the same area, not a cross of them.
@@TheRainHarvester so mine came from the fruit being left too long in the cold. Basically they have the traits of both variety. Some bloom all grow season and some only in june and july august if I really water. They vary on sweetness and length of bloom ratio.
I noticed you're still waiting for a reply so I'll give it a shot even though I'm not a farmer. (I have had experience with strawberries) The simple answer is that the "runners" are young, individual plants so treat them just like you would if you were transplanting seedlings. Runners will naturally set roots where they touch the ground. You can then cut them from their mother plant and let them grow where they are. If you want to grow them in specific places in your garden, cut them from the mother and press their bottoms into well worked rich soil and water them in. Make sure they don't dry out until they become well established and have a strong root system. They will now over winter just like the mother plants do and be ready to produce fruit the following year.
As a home gardener on a budget but with a bit of space, I can't stress enough how easy it is to propagate strawberries. I started with a couple near dead strawberries from the local hardware store at the end of season 10 years ago. This spring, after dropping compost next to my strawberry patch at the end of last year and growing beans adjacent to it last year, I literally pulled over 150 brand new strawberry plants out of my garden which had runnered over into the beans/compost area. And my whole big patch is from those 2 bedraggled plants 10 years ago.
What region are you in?
@@jahsunhandy upper midwest
We have about 5 square metres of strawberry plants going crazy after they grew under our fence from the next door neighbours yard.
@@jiiaga5017 good is good news for me. .. i think ill plant a couple dozen dozen. []_[]
@@LightGesture I started out with around a dozen last year and ended out with somewhere between 200-300 plants. Just by collecting runners.
My runners ((next yrs plants) have come from 20 yr old mother plants I've never had to buy more because of these WONDERFUL RUNNERS. Rotate the older ones with the newer ones... easy when you care enough.
That is good for small operations to keep your strawberry plants. Big operation like his and mine, the plants are only good for one season. The risk for disease and increase bugs like mites will be worse the next year. Fixing drip lines and torn plastic is also increase expense.
Yes I would say that’s how modern agriculture works. Big ag companies make the start product for other farmers. Seeds, potatoes, onions, animals, strawberry plants, etc.. as a farmer you get the “starts” for Pennies by the thousands.
In the industry that black plastic yearly waste is also called “mulch” yeah I know as an organic gardener that one is painful.
@@WhiteWolfeHU plastic mulch 😳
how ❔
If something did go wrong...big growers could lose too much money so I'd say not worth the risk
Does a mother get weaker after having a child? No, she gets stronger. I'm out of here.
Here in the Netherlands strawberries are planted in gutters, so they can grow them in tiers, and the strawberries hang and stay clean. After Harvest the gutters with plants are brougth to a cooling house, often an fruit storage, and chilled for some time. They are transferred back to the farm/Greenhouse(depends on month) and start flowering again because they think it's spring.
It's a rotating system, so when plants are transferred to the cooling house others are taken out and start producing fruit in the same space the other plants are taken from.
Wow that’s just amazing
How to screw up CO2 emissions :)
@@anibaldamiao what do you mean?
Pino colada I grow my strawberries in gutters, but the variety is so small that they don't hang from it, the fruit sits on the dirt and gets moldy. Any advice? 😊 thank you
@@mariap.894 Put straw underneat the plants. Thats the reason they are called strawberries.
My father sometimes did it, they were clean and not moldy. Without straw they were covered in sand.
Do not use hay, hay will become moldy.
We at Blue Eye Strawberries Also plant in the fall but used runner from our mother plant and we plant about 15000 new plants every year! All plants come from one-year-old mother plants never had any disease problems in twenty-five years of doing this! At Blue Eye Strawberries we raise four kinds of berry three June bearing and one everbearing Ozark Beauty!!
You hear nursery suppliers tell stories like that about propagating all kinds of plants and trees. They use to say if you propagated a tree it would never grow fruit.
I have a friend that plants his own runners, he said its lots of laybor involved!
I turned 24 plants runners into 130 plants last fall with about 7 hours of hard work in a 12 by 15 area
@@jimboersma4236 Now do that with 45,000 plants.
That's why he buys new ones every year
@@farmerdre1 no more labour than planting fresh plants every year, but way cheaper ;)
Your strawberry fields look phenomenal! Well done!
Dude
Totally awesome
I learned 2 new things
1 strawberries are a perenial and
2 the mother plant sends out runners
Thanx man
Note: some types send out runners. Some do not. Watch your supplier description to find which you have. 😊
@@moonprints cool
Thank you i will
Farmer Dre, you're extremely encouraging and inspiring keep up the excellent work.
Thanks for watching! appreciate the support!
He is not.
He did it wrong way. Lots of expenses way of farming.
And his video title is exagetated hyperbolic.
No knowledge at all.
@@pongtorralolai7240 I love his videos.... he's great 👍🏾
@@pongtorralolai7240 Well said. I agree wholeheartedly. Nearly 13 minutes just to say, “ remove runners “
As a home gardener, after the first year, my grandfather would plant his strawberry rows spaced so that every year, he tilled the main row. So this year's daughter plants were next years main row.
yes! thats called the matted row steawberry system
I need a job
Does that take the place of chemical fertilizer or do you still need to supplement them when using this method? First year growing them so learning all i can lol
Farmer Dre, Great video! I see why so many folks follow you! You know your stuff! I’ve got a home garden and I allow SOME of mine to develop runners, let them move to the next row in the garden, and so far, that’s working well! With your advise, I’ll watch for any developing disease problems. Great video! Good tips for us at home!
I grow my own Quinault Strawberries because I prefer everbearing berries as I like to get them all summer. I just started them last year so I' been letting my runners spread them. Once my bed is filled, I will remove most of the runners. I'll keep a few to keep the bed fresh.
Here in Italy we keep the plants 3 years with perfect yealds, we cutthe runners and sell them
Who/where do you sell all your strawberries? Do they end up in grocery stores? Or do you have to sell all of them at farmers markets?
Dude this was SO informative. First time on your channel. Great job and thank you!
I recently been retrenched from the formal market.. I have free plastic, cheap labour's and a whole patch of strawberry bushes my mom planted a year ago... good land..
So I'm trying 1000 bushes...
Wish me luck..
@Bohohank plastic factories that extrude or print plastic for thermoforming machines... find those factories and ask for rejected materials or misprint rolls
I bought a flat of 12 pineberries from lowes a few years ago. Now i have thousands of them they are ver yprolific. if you cant get pine berry plants you should try them. i also was lucky enought to find dsome wild alpine strawberries growing on a farm i used to work on and i pransplanted a few to my garden and i now have a large patch of them as well
Beautiful field of strawberries! We love growing our homegrown organic strawberries.
If my strawberry bed is overcrowded, can I thin them out and plant them elsewhere after the first frost? You mentioned planting the runners in the fall. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
Usually yes. You can transplant them any time generally. Usually in the cool of the day/night. My mom does it in the heat of the day & doesn't have any issue's.
@@AlleyCat-1 Thanks for your help!
I pull the mothers in fall and plant the runners. I’ve always gotten a huge crop. 35 years from the original 25 plants.
I am get some seascape soon I can’t wait.
Good advice but a few riders, as I as an amateur gardener understand it you should remove all runners until fruiting has stopped and only allow runners to take after to keep the energy within the plant for fruit. Only the first 'daughter' plant on any runner should be potted up so snap off any further on the chain as any further daughters on the same runner will produce weaker plants next year. Take only a maximum of 3 runners from any one plant or it may weaken the 'mother' plant. Whether you take runners or not the plants should be replaced after 3 years as it becomes progressively poorer at fruiting as it ages so taking 'daughters' to replace them is a very good idea. As I say though, this is an armatures understanding so check it out yourselves.
For an amateur you sound pretty savvy
@@udumkopf8217 💀
This is very true..i practice this and my plant shoot out a lots of flower..unless im in a propagation mode, i will only allow one runner per plant..and no runner from runners are allowed
Are you an 'Oklahoma Knox'?
What’s the best fertiliser to use?
I've been fertilizing my strawberries with homemade fertilizer made from dandelions (high potassium) and I'm getting an explosion of fruit growth.
How do you make the fertilizer? And how you you not get weeds?
So glad u finally got to a point at the 7 minute mark 👍🏼
I refreshed my strawberry bed this summer and am replanting it with the runners I have been potting up from another bed
How do you protect form squirrels, moles, voles, and birds?
Hey Dre another great video of the strawberries patch gonna have alot of berries
Thats the plan! grow lots of strawberries!
Do you ever have to treat your main plants for them having nematodes and if so how do you deal with this, thanking you in anticipation of hearing from you.
Hey Dre, where can I buy a row of ready prepared soil mix for strawberry growing that’s in this video?
I am just starting to think about strawberry plants for a 2025 garden. Do you overwinter some of your plants, or replace them every year? Have you tried the red row cover?
Cool dude, love people who count their vegetables, flowers, fruit whatever. Like, my 25 thousand babies are doing good, etc.,etc. I happen to have planted (yes there is a video) 25 thousand pineapples. 6000 Hawaiian going in now, take me 3 more seasons to hit 45 like you brother!🍓🍍
I have my first year chrop this summer, I need to learn what to do with the plants this winter. I live in Alberta Canada we get moderate snow and -30*C. do I cover plants with mulch?
I had a great uncle that had a strawberry field that took up two city lots & they never had issue's with weak plants, small strawberries or disease. It seems like a waste of plant's & money to replace yearly & does composting really kill the potential diseases your worried abt? If you could, I'd keep a field for 1 year longer as a test plot to see how they produce the 2nd year. Maybe you could ultimately save some money or sell some of your plant's at the year to get some money back.
Putting in new plants evey year is not a waste if you are a commercial enterprise looking to reduce/"eliminate" risk of disease.
It's a gamble.....save money and use old runners or spend money and buy certified disease free every year
@@willbass2869 it's a gamble either way
@@AlleyCat-1 stuff like this is why there are food shortages in the world
@@Mountainrock70 stuff like what? Not throwing away plant's?
@@Mountainrock70😮
At one point ,when I lived in Powell River, BC, Canada. I had a beautiful garden. Very well planed and cared for by me. We could have lived off of it. Maybe? The strawberry patch had to be watched. The strawberries would take over! But who doesn't love strawberries. They are due here in Ontario, a bit warm and wet, hurry! Swiss Chard, Beans (runners and bush) Peppers, (they wouldn't grow right in Ontario) Tomato's ( they grew better in Ontario, too much rain in BC)
Another great video!!! What do you do to keep birds and animals for eating your strawberries and tomatoes etc??? Just was wondering...??? Cause I keep having bird problems! Lol
Birds got the few berries that came before I could try them! Would be good to know what to do.
I now keep my strawberries in my greenhouse. Otherwise they attract the birds who then eat the blueberries and so on. So I avoid feeding the birds strawberries to preserve my other fruits.
Hello I ask you what is your good fertilizer in your strawberry 🍓 thank you for your sharing.
I grow Seascape and Ozark beauty. Everbearers FTW.
The sweet Charlie is what we have planted for the last 15 years they perform the best in north Texas we get out bare root plants from Koopes plants in california where do you get yours
It’s a great tasting berry, it just depends on where you are in the country. For us, it blooms dangerously early and makes it hard to protect.
Super funny I planted straw berries last year they did ok but I forgot to him then with fertilizer because we had such a bad drought I didn’t think my plant would even make it up north Canadian boarder well these guys popped up like 50 tiny tiny berries to small to eat well snow came and went snow just melted off my garden these guys are straight in the dirt nothing special we’ll snow melted two days ago and my strawberry plant is now giant !! It’s latterly triple in size under the snow and it’s stupid healthy looking it’s crazy
I'm about same area as you, so I can plant in ground and leave in winter without covering them?
Do you cut the outer leafs off for larger fruit
Beautiful! My problem is a four legged pest, deer! How do u keep deer out of your fields?
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buckshot pest control also great fertilizer for soil if not eaten
I used cinnamon. Seems to work.
Companion plant.
Thank you for all your videos my family were large produce Farmer's also retired from the army and now I plan on raising a large produce farm this year. Question for you is how do you plan on or how do you keep all the birds and turkeys and animals from eating your strawberries
Have you thought of selling your plants to you community at the end of the season instead of composting them or throwing them away ? I just bought 10 plants from gurneys I wonder if that is what I’m going to get ? A strawberry farmers discarded plants would be awesome for a home garden , I guess he’ll I don’t know !
I always wondered this too. We have a local grower, I've asked in the past, was promised a call...never got it 🤷🏾♀️
@@edna4parham Ask again? These are quickly becoming expensive times and they may be motivated to do something now.
Where can I find buyers for my strawberry farm?
What fertilizer do you use?
Hello, did you use the water fertilizer machine
What variety did u grow
Question. What is the farm attachment that sets up those rows and the black material. Curious if it's worth buying one for a smaller tractor to work about 4 acres of field. I have 18 acres of field to really play with.
You have already answered half of my questions!
Stolons is the name for the runners.
Big companies propagate the strawberries from tissue culture.
Same in the tomato industry
Hello Dre I have a desert farm and would like to know if its possible to grow strawberries in the same way you are describing in a hot climate. Would like to know what I need for a start. Thank you. Ali
how do you deal with birds and chipmunks trying to eat your strawberries?
Would I plant them in the fall even if I live in zone 7b (Washington State) or would that get to cold for strawberries in the winter.
WOW WOW super channel..... super video, great information, great energy thumb up bro
I love strawberries and have planted some this year. What type of fertilizer do you use? How often?
My problem was not realizing just how much pill bugs love these. I need to get better at mulching the ground around the strawberries.
The runners produce entirety NEW plants, not different-- they are genetically the same as the mother plant that grew the runner. There is no pollination involved.
The pollination produces the fruit. Its very involved
@@johnpwright7832 not in the runners as that was the reason for the comment.
@@audreye7078 you completely right there i do apologise. Sorry for the mix up.
Do you use bloom fertilizer? If so when should it be used?
I have always heard that the second year for strawberries was the biggest year so it seems odd that you would pull and replant every year. Seems like you could cut your labor substantially by waiting for the second year.
I wish I was there to pick them when you throw the plants away😂😂😂
The ruby June's have a great flavor. sweetest berry I've ever had.
Its my first year growing it! im excited to see how it is!
@@farmerdre1 we ordered them again this year but weren't able to get them when we wanted them so had to get Chandlers instead. Last year they did ok didn't think they yield like chandler and some other varieties but they had alot of frost damage. But we had alot of regular customers that picked in then specifically because of how sweet they were
Good to hear! We planted 500 Ruby June's last fall. Can't wait to try them. The plants weren't as vigorous as the Chandlers we got but hoping they will do better as they green up this spring.
Do you change out the plants every year?
How are you keeping the grass cut in between the beds?
Were do you buy your strawberry plants at
I live in north eastern OK.
And am looking to plant half an acre. Where do you purchase your plants from? is it a commercial nursery?
Nice. Do you plough up every 3 years?
Hello colleague, I'm looking at you from far,from Georgia,(country,Caucasuss) I'm interested in your opinion on remontate varietyes, for example, San Andreas, Albion, Cabrillo, Murano, if you have worked with these varieties, and one more question, is the weather humid in your area? And if so, which species do you recommend to withstand high summer temperatures? thanks
I’m in Kentucky, we are same growing area as you, is the black plastic too hot as the plants grow and burn up your plants?
Great video! Where is the cheapest place to find that black plastic covering material? Thanks!
Shopee.
In the 70's we had close to a million plants, a lot of work.
WOW! thats amazimg
They were pot plants.
What do you do to reintroduce nutrients to the soil?
Thanks for this video! You answered my question. I’m new to growing food in containers in my yard. I bought a strawberry plant from Menards & it is really growing. I didn’t know what “runners” were until your video! So that’s what’s growing. I have 2 long runners growing so I guess I can cut them off & possibly try to plant them in different containers. We will see what happens. Again, thanks for this information!!! 🪴 🍓
Yes and when those plants produce flowers pick them off for the first year. Next year you will have strong root system and tons of berries.
@@pamelaremme38 I have a strawberry plant which now has two flowers blooming, do I remove those flowers? Also I think I see a runner but haven't checked if there is a growth attached. Should I put plant in ground for winter and cover? I'm a bit confused and it's my first time growing strawberries. I'm in southern Ontario Canada (cold winters). Thanks
@@vickymarcon5612 Hi Vicky, Yes pull all flowers on new strawberry plants. Also snip off runners. What you need to focus on is root growth. Do you only have one strawberry plant? If you want a descent amount of strawberries get more plants. I put leaves over my strawberries for winter. I am in Wisconsin and we get very cold winters too. We had some -30 degree days/nights. Strawberry plants only produce nice big strawberries for about 3 years. I have a new bed next to my original that I am now planting my runners in so when my original plants start producing small berries I will have my other patch and till up my original and start the starters in that one. Make sense?
Curious about when do you plant , obviously it's after June first
Ok I caught after labor day ??
What is the black cover for
at 3.20 living and learning .. ya 🍻cheers mate. mother nature and live stock never get a day off and same with us older gentleman we are just better time managers
Is it better to have a raised bed for the strawberries. We have about 400 plants and I need to transplant them to a new area in my 200'x45'garden.
How do you deal with mice/bird/raccoon/squirrel/pill bugs?
I planned mine once 2 years ago they've come back every year so far
Thanks! My problem is they don't make many berries... so I heard that!: if you want more berry growth, pluck off the runners! They make far too many runners! I didn't know to pluck off runners.
PS: Nothing to do with strawberries... I've also bought a strawberry tree. I had never heard of them, then I saw one in a park loaded with unique bright yellow, orange or red fruit. I said "That looks like arbutus berries, only way bigger!" (Arbutus Menzesies, Madrone) And I knew those were edible, tho tiny. Looked it up - Sure enough, it's "Arbutus Unedo". Apparently popular in the Mediterranean area. Nice fruit, no pit or anything, slightly 'gritty'(?) texture. The pie was good.
You’re going to love sweet Charlie that’s what all my customers liked the best
Im excited to try them
Sweet Charlie are earlier smaller and sweeter. good for pick your own but our customers love them the best
I know you start your tomatoes by seed do you do your strawberries by the seed or do you buy new plants every fall to plant
strawberries from seed take a couple of years to fruit.. if you grow from runners they will fruit right away
Very thorough explanations. Thank you!
Can strawberry's grow in hot places??
What kind of weedcloth do you use (in this video) to have your plants grow here without having to deal with weeds? Right now I only have a few plants, but, that weed fabric sure seems to be heavy duty, and would likely help prevent weeds IF I were to plant more strawberry or any plant. I have tried the HEAVY DUTY "geocloth" stuff that is used in professional landscaping situations, and have STILL ended up having weeds grow through even THAT. Raised beds do help with weeding though.
I'm doing pink a boo pineberry next year. Started seeds up this summer. I also have June bearing Chandler. And Fragaria Virginiana Woodland strawberry. I'm getting a super super rare veriety called Fragaria Daltoniana grows only in the hymalayas its hot pink in color. Low in taste it claims. but if I breed it with a larger sweeter veriety or the pineberry we will get a large hot pink tasty strawberry.
Where do yall get the seedlings?
Hi Farmer Dre, what is the recommended atmospheric temperature range condusive for growing strawberries?
How do keep rabbits and birds from eating the plants?
I was just trying to figure out what you have on your rows , is that plastic
What type of fertilizer? Is it organic?
Always soil test, but we use a 12-9-15 and no, organics are too expensive and not as concentrated
there are many organic fertilizers you can put before you plant, its hard to find good water souble organic fertilizer to pump through your irrigation system, i use calcium nitrate the most!
How can elemental fertilizers be anything but organic? They are compounds that are literally on the periodic table.
@@mariemorgan8834 When did he say he uses elemental fertilizers?
My strawberries are in the third year, this year the leaves are huge and the fruit smell devine. I sprinkle in Epsom salts and everything is strong and beautiful this year
How do u fertilize when they are covered w the landscape fabric?
They have irrigation hose under the plastic and use liquid fertilizer when irrigating.
Salt based fertiliser.. load of rubus. They force the fruit to grow big with next to no flavour or nutritional content
My plants give bigger berries the 2nd & 3rd year.
New sub, you've got good info here as well as great subs who too contribute good info. Thank you for your time Sir!
Thank you, where did you find the plants? We have been struggling to find any to plant this fall (we are in north Texas so we need to get them in this month).
Call your local extension office. They usually keep a record of all places that sell them
@@joshh9090 thank you sir
Are you related to the Dr? Thank you for the tips brother
Where is this?
Thanks for your info on strawberry 🍓
I'm terrible at growing strawberries..use to do great
Thanks Dre.
Dre,
I understand your a farmer but if you find a variety you really like take 10 plants and convert them to growers so you get 1st year crop next year from the same variety??? So you dont run into the supply issue like you did with rocko?
Its literally maybe 4 hrs of extra work for next years crop to plant them if you have the right tools. And your not spending money on buying plants which can be a very large investment
That field seems like it would require many many more than 10 mother plants. But I am just beginning with strawberries....am I wrong?
@@TheRainHarvester one thing strawberries are good at.
Reproducing. I started with 10. And know I have a 20x40 ft patch of hybrids. June and ever bearing crossed. And I'm dealing with the end result.
@@roterakaten636 Oh what is the end result? I too have ever bearing and June bearing....What am I going to run into?
Runners are genetic copies of the mother plant. They are not crossed with any other nearby varieties. You just have both varieties in the same area, not a cross of them.
@@TheRainHarvester so mine came from the fruit being left too long in the cold. Basically they have the traits of both variety. Some bloom all grow season and some only in june and july august if I really water.
They vary on sweetness and length of bloom ratio.
Video starts at 4:46
Soooo.... how do I keep the runners over the winter? Do I let them dry out or??
I noticed you're still waiting for a reply so I'll give it a shot even though I'm not a farmer. (I have had experience with strawberries) The simple answer is that the "runners" are young, individual plants so treat them just like you would if you were transplanting seedlings. Runners will naturally set roots where they touch the ground. You can then cut them from their mother plant and let them grow where they are. If you want to grow them in specific places in your garden, cut them from the mother and press their bottoms into well worked rich soil and water them in. Make sure they don't dry out until they become well established and have a strong root system. They will now over winter just like the mother plants do and be ready to produce fruit the following year.
@@whatanitemare thank you for this explanation 🙏
@@vickymarcon5612 Glad I could help!
Keeping them fertilisered ? :D