For those reading this and if she doesn't mention this in the video, it is vitally important to use runners to get new plants but restrict this effort to one or two plants as needed. A strawberry plant will produce for 3-5 years and then its production falls off.
Yes, thank you for bringing this up. In fact, we have plans to renovate on our strawberry beds this year with the runners since the production had declined slightly. They are about 4 years old.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden so it’s not needed the first 3 years? I planted strawberries from seed a year ago, right now they started flowering , the plants are big but not as big as yours so I wasn’t sure if I should cut flowers so that the plants can still grow My plants started running a while ago so I have new patches that flower pretty quickly , so do I just cut off all the runners now or do I just wait until second year since 1st year plants don’t produce good fruit anyway? (Especially not in my weather )
@@vastya.3255 hi there! Regarding your questions, for the first few months after planting a strawberry plant, remove the blossoms to give the plant energy to focus on a good root system. It’s recommended to remove all flowers for the first year on June bearing, and to remove flowers until July for Everbearing. I would also start removing runners from your Everbearing plants unless you need/want more plants. For June bearing, I would let them produce some runners but don’t let them go crazy. You’re right that second year plants produce more and better fruit. I have a follow up video on my channel I posted recently on how to renovate an Everbearing strawberry bed. You might find it helpful as I clear a few things up. 😊 hope this answers your questions.
I planted a dozen Quinalts in March. They became 100 plants, but I saw no fruit until this month(November)...three small strawberries. Wish I had known your trick. There’s always next year. 🙂 Thank you.
I tried cutting my runners off and rooting them with hormone and it works, so you let the mother focus on berries and at the same time you can make more plants.
Awesome! That’s a question I get a lot if the runner can be used to make a new plant after it’s been clipped so I’m glad to hear you’ve had success with it.
I only grow Everbearing Strawberries because I prefer them producing throughout the summer. Right now, my bed is new, and I want more plants, so I am leaving the runners. Once I have all the plants I want, I fully intend on pinching those runners. Maybe I'll keep a few and start a few for my friends to have and to freshen my stock every few years.
Can't you use the daughters to start another branch on the family tree? 😊 I mean if you're getting rid of them might as well make use of them. Make more strawberries 😁
@@terrig2467 yes. If you have the room. In time you will get overcrowding. I think taking the runners and planting them next to a row of mother's would work and then in 3 years remove the mother's when the daughters are producing well. The strawberries will be small if you don't thin them out at some point. The mother last 3-4 years.
Hola, I AM from Habana. This is the first time I grow strawberries. I think I AM going to have a beautiful plant and good fruits. You know the climate here is not the best to grow but I Will try. I Will do my best.
Hi there. Thanks for a great video. I have started growing strawberries from seed that I collected from strawberries that I bought. It has been three years now and I am really getting great strawberries. I was quite shocked when I saw some of my strawberries being about three fingers wide. I never knew what caused them to be so large but I was very excited. I have five questions. How often should strawberries be replanted and what soil mix do you suggest I use, what could I add to the soil to produce sweet strawberries and how often do you use fertilizer if any, and what type? Your assistance will be appreciated.
Hi there! Thanks for the comment and good questions. I’ll answer them in order as best I can. 1) strawberry lifespan is about 3-5 years. I have a new video on renovating an Everbearing strawberry bed. Go check it out on my channel for more info. 2) I suggest using an organic garden mix. I buy from a local company in bulk but you can also get garden mix in bags from nurseries. 3) I am not sure as to what to add to soil to sweeten a strawberry. I’ll do some research and try to include that in my upcoming fertilizing strawberries video (check back in about a month for that video.) 4 and 5) I do fertilize them 2-3x a year. I am trying out this fertilizer: Espoma Organic Berry-tone 4-3-4 Natural & Organic Fertilizer and Plant Food for all Berries. 4 lb. Bag. Use for Planting & Feeding to Promote Bountiful Harvest www.amazon.com/dp/B07KV692TG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y7YPY5NBKFMV9FVNB7FC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Check back for that promised strawberry fertilizing video! I hope this helps in the meantime.
I always watch videos like this in the hopes that I learn something new and sometimes I do. Sadly in this case I didn't. That being said, I find if you've started a new patch of strawberries it's better to let it mat and then selectively snap runners. All the local strawberry growers near me with huge fields of them plant new mature plants every three years. Obviously due to how they need to be successful every year they plant mature crops. So they'll be growing or ordering in three year plants inadvance, so year 1 mature 3 year old plant, year 2 mature 3 year old plant, so and so forth. Obviously letting a patch mat will mean you might not get a huge amount of fruit or that your fruit is smaller. I ripped up all my plants at the end of last year and I put in two new varieties in spring. I was getting fruit relatively slow but it's slowly picked up but I've got quite a few runners going so the fruit is about everbearing size maybe a bit bigger. These days though you can big juicy strawberries later in the year, autumn/fall time, the same with raspberries. So I'm getting the summer ones currently but the autumn ones will pick up as they slow down and eventually stop. That being said though if you've got a nice patch like you guys have then leaving a few runners on older plants and snapping ones of the newer ones to start new plants for swapping out year 4/5 plants is great for maximising.
Thanks for leaving a comment and sharing what's working for you. I have a recent video on how I renovated my everbearing strawberry patch and I go over a few details that I didn't cover in this video. I'm always learning and adapting (always a student of the garden).
Great video... you've inspired me to start growing strawberries in a big box-like "garden." What kind of soil should I use for box-cultivating them, and, how deep should it be?
Wonderful! Strawberries have a shallow root system so anything 8" or deeper is good (12" is typical for raised beds). I recommend buying a "garden mix" for your soil. You can get them bagged or buy it in bulk from a landscaping business. Strawberries like a slightly acidic soil pH so check your soil before planting them and add elemental sulfer if needed to acidify it (I have a video on testing soil pH if you need help). Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank you. That'll be one of my upcoming summer projects to do this year. Luckily I have a great garden store nearby me that can help provide some of the essential items I'll need to get started.
Your plants 🍓and fruit look healthy and vibrant. I'm curious, what area of the country and zone are you in ? Do the two varieties you planted work well in other zones/ areas ? Thank you for the beautiful videos 😊
Thank you! I live in WA state zone 8b. Albion and Hood are the varieties I have and they are perennial in zones 4-8. If you live somewhere outside those zones, you can grow them as an annual. Hope this helps!
@@dcwatashi hi neighbor! I use the old almanac website to find my growing zone by zip code. 😊 Vancouver isn’t too far away so I’m guessing you’re pretty close to my growing zone
@@OurSanctuaryGarden I don’t know why I have a mental block with which zone I’m in maybe I’m in the twilight zone 🤪🙄 and I just ordered the fertilizer you recommended for the blueberries and strawberries and it was the last one on Amazon. But I guess I’m too late to fertilize either my strawberries or my blueberries right now.
@@dcwatashi i would go ahead and fertilize your blueberries and if you have Everbearing strawberries, go ahead and fertilize them too. If you have june bearing strawberries, wait until they are done fruiting then fertilize. 😊
Awesome!!! I literally just planted 14 everbearing fingers crossed !! My question is this , could those suckers ( runners) be planted elsewhere to produce a new plant separate from the mother plant?
Absolutely! You can start a whole new strawberry bed with runners from the mother plants you originally planted. You can do it a number of ways. Wait until the runners show roots before clipping and planting, wait until they actually root themselves into the soil before transplanting, or (I've been told this works but haven't tried it myself) I understand you can place the end that will root into water until it starts rooting then plant it. Happy gardening!
Yes indeed. I started last summer with 6 Quinault everbearing plants. By nestling the runner down slightly into/onto moist soil and pinning the runner down with an upside down U shaped coated heavy wire, the runners reliably rooted. The runners would even then continue to creep, grow and extend over the ground, allowing a single runner to root and produce a few new plants. In early fall i then snipped each runner stem and dug up each new young daughter plant and planted each spread out so each had a foot between other plants. I went from 6 plants to 50 and even started clipping the runners off, figuring there was not much time for any more to root and grow big enough roots to survive the winter in zone 5 with some pine needles mulched over them for the winter. If you don’t ensure good soil contact and keep it moist at the "plant root nodes" on the runner stem, the runner may just dry up and "burn off" like a dud fuse. With some attention and care the rooting success rate can be very near 100%. One plant will send out multiple runners and each runner can produce multiple new daughter plants.
How do you manage growing strawberries with no bug bites? Those pill bugs are ruining my strawberries, also the birds eat them when they still green. So frustrated!!!
I would love to say my strawberries never have bug damage, but that would be a lie. I have managed birds with netting that I cover the beds with. Regarding pill bugs, I had an infestation of them this year so many of my berries had some damage. Pill bugs love dark and damp environments so I laid down a layer of straw so the strawberries would be off the damp soil. I also watered in the morning so everything had a chance to dry out through the day. It seems to help but a level of damage should always be expected. 'Tis the life a gardener. We have to share our garden with the bugs. ;) Happy gardening!
Thank you! Yes, you can! There are a few options but the one that seems to work the best is place the runner in water. I haven’t personally done this yet but I plan to experiment with it this summer 😊
Hi Thanks for the wonderful video... How do you get such a lush and BIG LEAVES in your strawberry...what do you feed your strawberry....can you make make a video on strawberry soil, nutrition and feeding..my strawberry have small leaves and when i try giving fertilizer...it burns
That's a great video request! I will look into doing that. Some of my strawberries have yellow leaves this year which is indicative of nitrogen deficiency so I added some blood meal around each plant. Compost is your best friend, but I also recommend a berry specific fertilizer (preferably organic). This is a good one: www.amazon.com/Fruit-Berry-Food-4lb/dp/B07KV692TG/ref=asc_df_B07KV692TG/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459411117297&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3949616658100559483&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033549&hvtargid=pla-943532672389&psc=1
How often do you replace your plants? I have read every 3 years… would you then save some of the runners, let them root then swap out one of the older plants?
Exactly right! I wish I had made that more clear in my video so I plan to do another video later this month about that process of refreshing my strawberry beds. Hope that helps
@@sandrataylor1180 Good question! It's recommended to move them to new beds (like all other crop rotations). However... I don't plan to do that. Because I'm using raised beds and the soil settles so much, I have to add up to a foot of new soil when I renovate them so it's basically like starting fresh. Strawberry roots are very shallow so they won't go near the old soil a foot down. I made a new video of my strawberry bed renovation so check it out: th-cam.com/video/QscI_SeU3Ow/w-d-xo.html
last spring i grew 4 june bearing strawberries in a planter pot on my deck sometime in june and they produced some good strawberries but they were small. looking at my strawberries now, they still look dead, i thought they are supposed to come back. is there something I did wrong? The strawberries did attract some japanese beetles, aphids, and had some spider webs on it which ruined some strawberries. do you have a method to reducing the pests? I saw you used straw to prevent slugs from getting to your strawberries.
Hi Trey. Good questions. With my more recent research, it seems that June bearing strawberries need to be “renovated” every year, where you let them put out a couple runners to start some daughter plants, then pull out the mother plants after they’re done fruiting. This may fix your maybe dead strawberry plant problem. If they are dead, get some new plants and try the tip above and see how they do. Regarding your pest problem: pests are attracted to weak plants so find ways to build them up with some worm castings, a balanced fertilizer and deep consistent watering. Also, make sure you have some flowers nearby that will attract those beneficial insects that love eating the pests. In the moment though, you can always use neem oil sprayed on the plants (all natural) to help reduce the pest population. These are my recommendations based on what you told me and I hope it’s helpful. I have more videos lined up this year on strawberry care so check back again. Let me know if you have more questions. Wishing you luck!
I am from Bangladesh,great video, how is your new born baby, I want to cultivate Albion here so can you help me from where I can buy the sidling . Thanks
Hi! Thanks for watching from across the ocean! My baby is thriving. ;) I am unsure as to what can be shipped to Bangladesh. I bought mine from a local nursery. I wish I could be more helpful.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank you and love for your baby. I will let you know after knowing shipping rules of Bangladesh. If you provide me just only runners than I will grow it here..
I had 6 plants.... mix of both June and Ever.... that I turned into 200 plants by using the runners.... And just sold them.... I also had my time where I cut them to focus on the fruit growth for my 35 plants for my strawberry patch. But my strawberried are always small. I do not the variety of either as they were given to me. But what variety exactly are yours that are getting that big. I also struggle at times with it being too hot come summer in NC. We will run about 90-100 easily for months. And it seems to be 60-80 deg is the optimal temp. But mostly curious as the variety of the large strawberry you have so I can get them and start growing them. Thanks!
The variety I have is called Albion Everbearing/day neutral (there’s mixed information on which it is). Strawberries thrive in zones 5-8 and so you most likely are a bit hot for them in the summer. It’s not impossible though to still get large berries. Maybe there’s a way you can add shade in the heat of summer? There’s a video by another TH-cam creator who shares how she handles growing strawberries in AZ where it’s really hot. I’ll find it and link it in the next comment. Best of luck!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank You so much. We do not normally get this hot in NC until mid July to August. But this year has been really hot and really dry really early where I am at. Which is VERY VERY unusual. We have many many strawberry farms around me for people to go and pick. Just an unusual year. But thank for info and link. I sincerley appreciate it!!!
@@adamgusse9484 you’re very welcome! I hope this helps. We have had the exact opposite weather here in WA state… wet and cool spring. It’s barely been hitting the 70s even in June!
Hi I have stor bought strawberry plant. It is in the plastic container. It was fine in beginning but now leaf getting burn looking and strawberry are still growing but the size of strawberry is less than half inch. Can please help me should I transfer in ground soil. Please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 help
Hi Sadia. I’m sorry this is happening. It sounds like there might be a nutrient deficiency. Anything planted in a container needs to be fertilized more often then things planted in ground as the nutrients get leached from the soil faster in pots. Either consider transplanting it, or apply a general purpose well rounded fertilizer and continue to use it every 3-4 weeks. That may fix the problem. I hope this helps. Best of luck.
Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Your comment got lost for some reason. I am currently researching into the best fertilizer for strawberries, but a general all purpose fertilizer that is balanced in the 3 key nutrients is fine. Something with NPK numbers that are close to equal (like 4-3-4). A new video will be coming out on that soon so be sure to subscribe. Hope this helps! Happy gardening!
Definitely the type of strawberry. Her number one hint should read..Buy gurneys whoppers so your strawberries are genetically modified to reach these sizes
Hi, is there any soil that's not made out of cow or chicken manuer. I know it sounds funny but I can't stand the thought of growing my food is an animals poo. Any recommendations?
That's a good question. If you buy garden mix, its highly likely it will have some sort of manure added as it's a cheap source of "compost material". You may not be able to buy bulk soil due to this. I did a quick search and it's difficult to find unless you make your own mix or use your native soil. You can make your own compost with kitchen scraps and garden waste to add to your existing soil. My husband does a video on composting if this is an interest of yours. Hope this helps! th-cam.com/video/w08zRDR1BpAh/w-d-xo.htmlttps://th-cam.com/video/w08zRDR1BpA/w-d-xo.html
30 yrs ago I bought 2-6 pks of strawberries before the internet was in every house hold. Via an article in a gardening book I learned to plant the 1 yr old mother plant and to not allow the fruit to set but to snip off the blooms. Use a bright piece of yard or those piled up bread twist ties select the bright yellow or orange ones and place them around the base of each mother. Allow the runners to grow, root and mature. Depending on where you live 6 to 8 weeks before nightly temps are 32* transplant those runner babies on the other end of the strawberry bed(s). The next year allow the mother plants to set fruit but remove all runners as soon as you see them. Then the following years those original mother plants will produce huge berries, just keep removing the runners. Now you have those babies on the other end of the patch. Do the same thing with those the following year. Select one color per years worth of growth so not to mix them up and write on an index card whats what. The 2nd yr plants can then be moved closer to the original mothers and keep those runners snipped. After about 4 to 5 yrs start to replace the oldest mothers as many feel they start producing less fruits as they age. Have fun and gt down and dirty in the garden...!
Hi! This is very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing. That’s quite a system. Has it worked well for you? Do you have raised beds? I did a follow up video on renovating a strawberry bed and I had to do the process all at once because I needed to refill my raised bed with more soil. I like this process you have here as it makes it so you don’t have to renovate all the plants all at once.
Try an individual pot, i made an experiment by planting half of my plant directly to the ground and some on a pot. They grow better in an individual pot. And each of the plant grow differently. Like it evolve themselves i was shocked to find one of my strawberry goes red(leaf). The pot one grow more fruit and free disease. The mixed one in the ground tend to be sharing disease. It leaf growth isnt good at all, also try hanging pot
I push the end into a 3 in pot for 5 days and let it send a root down before I clip it of the mother. I've found that any longer than 5 days and you wont get as big of berries. This is the way I ve found to get the best of both. I have allstars and quinault and this has worked for both for me
Very nice~ How long have those strawberry plants been in the garden beds? To save the clipped runners, put them in water, with the torn off end in the water and keep the growing tip out of the water but still resting on the water, and they will form roots.
Hi! These plants have been in the raised beds for about 2 years. In 1-2 more years, I plan to refresh the bed by doing exactly as you described! :) Cheers!
Just got a Seascape variety plant (no doubt grown from a runner, lol) and was looking for tips on what to do with it. I will keep this tip and remember it when my plant is much bigger, because I want LOTS of strawberries and strawberry plants in the future. Been dreaming of that hanging, indoor strawberry cornucopia... :) Thank you!
Actually water tends to rot them quickly. Letting them root directly into the ground either from the container of planting out the container gives it the best chance. There are ways to use water but they are still more advanced than me
This is very interesting. I grow strawberries commercially (we have about 10 million plants this year) and most of the advice I see on the youtubes is utterly ludicrous. This however, is not. We only keep our plants for one season, and we go to great lengths to cut the runners off early in the year so the crowns grow bigger and the plant sets more, larger fruit. There may or may not be an obscene amount of Calcium and Potassium Nitrate and Magnesium Sulphate involved. Towards the end of the season though, we start letting runners take root and cut them from the mother plant. We put them in trays and that becomes some of next year's plants.
This is very interesting to read! I know most commercial growers treat strawberries as annuals but I wasn’t aware they removed runners. Good to know. Thanks for sharing!
First year growing strawberries here! Have little day neutral strawberries that are just starting to form! I pinched the buds until beginning of this month and they are flowering like crazy!
Thank you so much for this video! Just an additional tip for those having trouble getting bigger berries .. it may be to do with pollination. If - like me - you live in 'the 'burbs' rather than out in the country, you may be noticing a decline in pollinator populations. Try planting flowering, pollinator attracting plants such as marigolds around/within your strawberry patches (mine are in hanging pots). If the time to do this has passed, then get yourself a soft-bristled paint-brush and hand pollinate your flowers, from the outside in towards the centre of the flower. If you have the time to do this daily (for a few pots of plants like I have), then great! Otherwise, you can get away with doing this every 3-4 days. Strawberry flowers are self-pollinating (meaning even just one flower can fertilize itself to produce a fruit as it has both male and female flower parts). However, some help from you may be needed. Brush from the outside (male parts) of the flower to the inside (female part*s*). For the size of the fruit to be maximized to its capacity, *each* female part needs to be pollinated. Hope this helps as an addition to the great info in this video!
For anyone reading when removing the runners it actually works way easier to just push down instead of pinching off. The whole section would get removed with ease
Actually that’s something you DONT want to do after the second year. Otherwise your killing off as they will die off after 3 years , so you’ll need those runners as you called them to continue the reproduction. They are actually called daughters from the mother plant. The reason for a large strawberry is the variety & FERTILIZER every 7 to 10 days during the fruit bearing season.
Thank you!!! I’m so glad I came across this video! I planted 50 bareroot strawberries in March/April and they are all smaller strawberries now that they are producing and tons of runners are coming! Now I know how to get big strawberries!!! Yay!!!
I like what you did and that’s a great idea, but the runners can also be soaked in water and make another plant and possibly sell them. And definitely use a scissors. You were really fighting there to pinch that off you can use a small scissors.
hi sanctuary gardens 🤗 this video came across my feed and im so glad it did. im actually watching you on my tv and laptop 🤣😂 i have strawberries and will definitely try this idea the next time i renovate my patch (your video im watching on tv). i'm in zone 10. i'm not sure where you are, but i'm going to watch more of your videos to see what i can learn and what may work in my raised beds. where do you get your straw? tfs
Hi there! I'm so glad you're here! Thanks for stopping by. :) I hope you learn a lot from my videos! More strawberry ones will be coming out in August (a whole series!). I am in zone 8b so I have a shorter growing season than you. I purchased my strawberries from a local nursery that specializes in berries and shrubs. I got mine as bareroot (my recommendation). Hope this helps! See you in a future comment thread! ;)
I am switching to the fertilizer listed below. Follow the instructions on it and it should work great. Espoma Organic Berry-Tone Granules Organic Plant Food 4 lb. www.amazon.com/dp/B088WZH9KG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9X6WAMGMN44E5SA3G1DA
@@slk363 yes, strawberries should be fertilized after their last crop. Try to avoid fertilizing them in the spring right before they start flowering, otherwise they may put out only leaves and less or no fruit. I plan to do a video on fertilizing strawberries once they’re fruiting (soon!) so watch for that.
Thank you for the feedback. This is the most common criticism I get from this video and I’ve taken it to heart and made adjustments to my more recent videos.
We just moved to this new house last fall. Previously, my strawberries were attacked by slugs, snails and birds before we ever got fruit to eat. Now, we are in a drier climate and will be purchasing my new berries within the month. This nice tip comes in perfect timing with the onset of gardening season. Thank you. 6:47
I recommend getting a good quality garden mix from a local landscape company if you’re doing raised beds. Strawberries like slightly acidic soil (5.5-6.5) so test your soil to see where it lands then add elemental sulfur to acidify it if needed. I have a video on acidifying soil if you need further help
My goodness, you have the most beautiful strawberry plants and strawberries. Mine are pitiful compared to yours. What zone are you in? How much and what kind of fertilizer do you use? How do you keep insects, ants, snails, slugs, etc off of your plants? Thank you!!
Thank you! We are in zone 8b and I am trying out a new fertilizer by Espoma (www.amazon.com/Espoma-Berry-Tone-Natural-Organic-Fertilizer/dp/B08DYDS1GZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CCX81N75BHQE&dchild=1&keywords=espoma+berry+tone&qid=1629607080&sprefix=espoma+berry%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-2). I follow the instructions on the bag for doses and I usually do it twice a year (spring and fall). Regarding insects... I pick my battles! Haha! I have had a big slug problem this year so I'm literally going outside and picking them up and throwing them over the fence. It works! My biggest issue is sow bugs and I have yet to try the solution of putting half a melon upside down in the area to attract them then relocate them to my compost pile. I hear it works well. But really, we just suffer some losses. It hasn't been so bad that I've done anything about it really. Hope this helps!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Hi, nice informative video. I got 10 plants at the farmers market that are Ozark Beauties, never grown them before. So excited to follow you and check back when I’m not sure about those runners. Can I just give those to a friend so she can grow berries?
My experience is the opposite. My junebearing strawberries are twice as big as my everbearing berries. I think it’s because they only fruit once but maybe it’s different for everyone
Great video, but I bought 6 Bonnie strawberries plants they are are big green plants but my issue is the berries are small or appear small. Thanks for any advice.
Hmm... Is this their first year? See what next year yields. It may be the variety as well. If you fertilize them, wait until the fall typically as sometimes fertilizers that are high in nitrogen will create beautiful lush plants, but few fruit. Clipping the runners like I show here should help as well. Hope you have better luck!
What is your method of watering , these soaker hoses doesn't put out evenly amounts of water . I would love ❤️ to share a picture of my June berries I picked this year.
I use overhead watering for now. It works well for me. I haven’t used soaker hoses but I know they do need to run for a long time to get enough water out. I’d love to see a picture of your strawberries!
Glad I stumbled upon this video. AMAZING! I’m getting ready to start my first indoor and outdoor grow so it was great to see what a runner looks like and how to encourage strawberries to grow as large as possible on the mother plant. Thank you.
I am not perfect. But my strawberry plants are getting real good fertilized soil, rain and sunlight and when ever the mini plant grows I cut them all together and plant them. I started having them all from a single plant.
Yes, you can! You can either let them take root in a pot of soil before clipping it from the mother plant or put the runner in water until it grows roots. Hope this helps!
I am starting a small raised bed of 2x4 ft . I was going to plant everglow and Seascape plants . Any idea if this small space will produce much fruit ? About how much in quarts ? June strawberry short cake for family of 5 , and fresh picked till sept. Let mrnknow what you think Thank ypu
I like to plant strawberries in my cinderblocks that I use for my raise bed. They can crawl out the runners and make more strawberries on the ground. The way we used to do. It was when we got too much tangles we would just mow the strawberries on the ground outside the raised bed I also told my husband to mow them down where my mother planted them in the back corner of the yard because they got poison ivy in them so my mother-in-law decided she could pick them and she rubbed her face. She rubbed her lips. she rubbed her eyes. She had poison ivy everywhere don’t do that. Just mow them down. They still got under the ground. They’ll come back next year.
This is a tough one to answer because so many critters love strawberries just as much as we do (bird, slugs, pill bugs, rabbits, etc). I have a slug problem too and I’m trying out a few things to see what helps. At the moment, the thing that is working for me is going out at dusk or early morning and hand picking the slugs and putting them in a bucket of soapy water. It’s gross and I hate it but it’s working to lessen the population (I wear gloves because they’re gross to touch!). I’m going to be doing a video on slug control since this is something I’m actively fighting right now. Some other options are beer traps, crushed egg shells around your plants, copper bands around raised beds, Sluggo (bait and kills them)… I’ll be trying all these and giving a review of them. Hope this helps. Good luck!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thank you for the suggestions. I have been using D.Earth. but my patch is so thick. Like u stated in ur video I let my runners run and have lots of plants and small berries. So I’m trying to decide how to handle this to start from scratch i guess u can say. But without mowing the hole thing down. Feels like suck a waste. But it’s hard to get anything down to ground level with that going on. So I’m going to have to definitely do something. But I look forward to ur video and can’t wait to see what you come up with.
This is my first year growing strawberries. I happened to see them at a nursery and decided to give them a try. Right now I have them in a planter, but I know I need something bigger and I do have a runner. I will snip it and put it in water until the roots start showing. Thank you for this video. It was very helpful. I have a small strawberry growing. How do I determine when they need to be picked?
I'm so glad you are trying out strawberries! If you want more plants, you can sacrifice a lot of fruit for more runners so you can propagate your patch. Then next year, start pruning off the runners. I know my strawberries are ready to pick when there is no white left on it (only red). :). Hope this helps! Happy gardening!
How do you prep your strawberries for the winter… Do you cut them down to the soil service? I’m in the Northeast and not sure if I leave them alone or cut them down before the winter.
A good question! So... for your june bearing varieties, it is recommended to mow them down to just above the crown as soon as they're done fruiting (mid summer typically). You then can thin the rows out. For everbearing/day neutral varieties, do not mow down. Just cover with mulch (I like straw) and remove it as soon as you're past your harshest frost but before the plants start coming out of dormancy. Hope that helps!
For those reading this and if she doesn't mention this in the video, it is vitally important to use runners to get new plants but restrict this effort to one or two plants as needed. A strawberry plant will produce for 3-5 years and then its production falls off.
Yes, thank you for bringing this up. In fact, we have plans to renovate on our strawberry beds this year with the runners since the production had declined slightly. They are about 4 years old.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden so it’s not needed the first 3 years? I planted strawberries from seed a year ago, right now they started flowering , the plants are big but not as big as yours so I wasn’t sure if I should cut flowers so that the plants can still grow
My plants started running a while ago so I have new patches that flower pretty quickly , so do I just cut off all the runners now or do I just wait until second year since 1st year plants don’t produce good fruit anyway? (Especially not in my weather )
@@vastya.3255 hi there! Regarding your questions, for the first few months after planting a strawberry plant, remove the blossoms to give the plant energy to focus on a good root system. It’s recommended to remove all flowers for the first year on June bearing, and to remove flowers until July for Everbearing. I would also start removing runners from your Everbearing plants unless you need/want more plants. For June bearing, I would let them produce some runners but don’t let them go crazy. You’re right that second year plants produce more and better fruit. I have a follow up video on my channel I posted recently on how to renovate an Everbearing strawberry bed. You might find it helpful as I clear a few things up. 😊 hope this answers your questions.
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@Sanctuary Gardens hello so remove all runners for the first 3 yrs
Great tip. Now I know why I had so many new plants and small, not so sweet berries.
Thank you.
Strawberries like acidic soil for sweeter fruit
I planted a dozen Quinalts in March. They became 100 plants, but I saw no fruit until this month(November)...three small strawberries. Wish I had known your trick. There’s always next year. 🙂 Thank you.
At least you have a bunch of plants now! How are the new plants doing? Have they started producing?
A big plus is having many plants, with this trick you can now get a huge yield
reduce nitrogen
I tried cutting my runners off and rooting them with hormone and it works, so you let the mother focus on berries and at the same time you can make more plants.
Awesome! That’s a question I get a lot if the runner can be used to make a new plant after it’s been clipped so I’m glad to hear you’ve had success with it.
nice sharing very informative
I only grow Everbearing Strawberries because I prefer them producing throughout the summer. Right now, my bed is new, and I want more plants, so I am leaving the runners. Once I have all the plants I want, I fully intend on pinching those runners. Maybe I'll keep a few and start a few for my friends to have and to freshen my stock every few years.
You betcha! Sounds like you know what you're doing! I prefer everbearing myself... I may be getting rid of my June bearing this year. Happy gardening!
"Runners" are daughters. Keep the mother and get rid of the daughters. Replace the mother with new daughters every 3 -4 years.
Exactly! Thanks for adding your input!
Can't you use the daughters to start another branch on the family tree? 😊 I mean if you're getting rid of them might as well make use of them. Make more strawberries 😁
@@luvmy5515 would depend on available room/space, I'd think...
Can you plant the runners?
@@terrig2467 yes. If you have the room. In time you will get overcrowding. I think taking the runners and planting them next to a row of mother's would work and then in 3 years remove the mother's when the daughters are producing well. The strawberries will be small if you don't thin them out at some point. The mother last 3-4 years.
The slope of your yard is great. My last residence had that slope and everything I planted in that low area did the best. I guess wetness is good.
You explained that so well. Thank you.
You’re welcome! Happy gardening!
Around here, the Mt. Hood strain of strawberries are smaller, but boy are they delicious.
Good to know! We weren’t happy with our Hood strawberries but maybe I’ll give them another chance 😊
Hola, I AM from Habana. This is the first time I grow strawberries. I think I AM going to have a beautiful plant and good fruits. You know the climate here is not the best to grow but I Will try. I Will do my best.
I wish you the best! :)
Good, good information.
yummi yummi, never neglect strawberries.
First time on your channel. Great video! Very clear explanation. I’ll be pinching off the runners we get this season. Thanks!
Welcome! Glad you found it helpful! 😊
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Thank you ☺️
I think a pair of small pruners would be best to use, to avoid damaging the plant...thank you!!
I agree. 😉
Hi there. Thanks for a great video. I have started growing strawberries from seed that I collected from strawberries that I bought. It has been three years now and I am really getting great strawberries. I was quite shocked when I saw some of my strawberries being about three fingers wide. I never knew what caused them to be so large but I was very excited. I have five questions. How often should strawberries be replanted and what soil mix do you suggest I use, what could I add to the soil to produce sweet strawberries and how often do you use fertilizer if any, and what type? Your assistance will be appreciated.
Hi there! Thanks for the comment and good questions. I’ll answer them in order as best I can.
1) strawberry lifespan is about 3-5 years. I have a new video on renovating an Everbearing strawberry bed. Go check it out on my channel for more info.
2) I suggest using an organic garden mix. I buy from a local company in bulk but you can also get garden mix in bags from nurseries.
3) I am not sure as to what to add to soil to sweeten a strawberry. I’ll do some research and try to include that in my upcoming fertilizing strawberries video (check back in about a month for that video.)
4 and 5) I do fertilize them 2-3x a year. I am trying out this fertilizer: Espoma Organic Berry-tone 4-3-4 Natural & Organic Fertilizer and Plant Food for all Berries. 4 lb. Bag. Use for Planting & Feeding to Promote Bountiful Harvest www.amazon.com/dp/B07KV692TG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y7YPY5NBKFMV9FVNB7FC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Check back for that promised strawberry fertilizing video! I hope this helps in the meantime.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thanks for the information. It is appreciated.
I always watch videos like this in the hopes that I learn something new and sometimes I do. Sadly in this case I didn't. That being said, I find if you've started a new patch of strawberries it's better to let it mat and then selectively snap runners. All the local strawberry growers near me with huge fields of them plant new mature plants every three years. Obviously due to how they need to be successful every year they plant mature crops. So they'll be growing or ordering in three year plants inadvance, so year 1 mature 3 year old plant, year 2 mature 3 year old plant, so and so forth. Obviously letting a patch mat will mean you might not get a huge amount of fruit or that your fruit is smaller. I ripped up all my plants at the end of last year and I put in two new varieties in spring. I was getting fruit relatively slow but it's slowly picked up but I've got quite a few runners going so the fruit is about everbearing size maybe a bit bigger. These days though you can big juicy strawberries later in the year, autumn/fall time, the same with raspberries. So I'm getting the summer ones currently but the autumn ones will pick up as they slow down and eventually stop. That being said though if you've got a nice patch like you guys have then leaving a few runners on older plants and snapping ones of the newer ones to start new plants for swapping out year 4/5 plants is great for maximising.
Thanks for leaving a comment and sharing what's working for you. I have a recent video on how I renovated my everbearing strawberry patch and I go over a few details that I didn't cover in this video. I'm always learning and adapting (always a student of the garden).
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the tip.. 💕
This is really awesome info and easily understood. I,m giving strawberry planting another try.
I'm glad you're going to try again! I wish you the very best luck!
Had to ff to the relevant part... time is valuable.
Thank You
Great video... you've inspired me to start growing strawberries in a big box-like "garden." What kind of soil should I use for box-cultivating them, and, how deep should it be?
Wonderful! Strawberries have a shallow root system so anything 8" or deeper is good (12" is typical for raised beds). I recommend buying a "garden mix" for your soil. You can get them bagged or buy it in bulk from a landscaping business. Strawberries like a slightly acidic soil pH so check your soil before planting them and add elemental sulfer if needed to acidify it (I have a video on testing soil pH if you need help). Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank you. That'll be one of my upcoming summer projects to do this year. Luckily I have a great garden store nearby me that can help provide some of the essential items I'll need to get started.
Your plants 🍓and fruit look healthy and vibrant. I'm curious, what area of the country and zone are you in ? Do the two varieties you planted work well in other zones/ areas ? Thank you for the beautiful videos 😊
Thank you! I live in WA state zone 8b. Albion and Hood are the varieties I have and they are perennial in zones 4-8. If you live somewhere outside those zones, you can grow them as an annual. Hope this helps!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Oh hey! I also live in Washington state. I think I am zone 8A I keep getting confused I don’t know why. I’m in Vancouver.
@@dcwatashi hi neighbor! I use the old almanac website to find my growing zone by zip code. 😊 Vancouver isn’t too far away so I’m guessing you’re pretty close to my growing zone
@@OurSanctuaryGarden I don’t know why I have a mental block with which zone I’m in maybe I’m in the twilight zone 🤪🙄 and I just ordered the fertilizer you recommended for the blueberries and strawberries and it was the last one on Amazon. But I guess I’m too late to fertilize either my strawberries or my blueberries right now.
@@dcwatashi i would go ahead and fertilize your blueberries and if you have Everbearing strawberries, go ahead and fertilize them too. If you have june bearing strawberries, wait until they are done fruiting then fertilize. 😊
Thank you for sharing
Awesome!!! I literally just planted 14 everbearing fingers crossed !!
My question is this , could those suckers ( runners) be planted elsewhere to produce a new plant separate from the mother plant?
Absolutely! You can start a whole new strawberry bed with runners from the mother plants you originally planted. You can do it a number of ways. Wait until the runners show roots before clipping and planting, wait until they actually root themselves into the soil before transplanting, or (I've been told this works but haven't tried it myself) I understand you can place the end that will root into water until it starts rooting then plant it. Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thank you so much and I’m so sorry I also meant to say how beautiful your gardens are !!!😊😊😊
@@leesa9615 Thank you!
Yes indeed. I started last summer with 6 Quinault everbearing plants. By nestling the runner down slightly into/onto moist soil and pinning the runner down with an upside down U shaped coated heavy wire, the runners reliably rooted. The runners would even then continue to creep, grow and extend over the ground, allowing a single runner to root and produce a few new plants. In early fall i then snipped each runner stem and dug up each new young daughter plant and planted each spread out so each had a foot between other plants. I went from 6 plants to 50 and even started clipping the runners off, figuring there was not much time for any more to root and grow big enough roots to survive the winter in zone 5 with some pine needles mulched over them for the winter.
If you don’t ensure good soil contact and keep it moist at the "plant root nodes" on the runner stem, the runner may just dry up and "burn off" like a dud fuse. With some attention and care the rooting success rate can be very near 100%.
One plant will send out multiple runners and each runner can produce multiple new daughter plants.
@@ttb1513 Thanks for all the great info! I plan to do just that this fall as my beds are due for a refreshing. :)
Awesome tip!
Tq very much for ur kind information🤩❤
Hi I love your dogs they are very cute 😊😁
Thank you!
Thanks I just saw one of those runners on my strawberries so off it comes
Your strawberries are beautiful
Thank you! They're our favorite!
How do you manage growing strawberries with no bug bites? Those pill bugs are ruining my strawberries, also the birds eat them when they still green. So frustrated!!!
I would love to say my strawberries never have bug damage, but that would be a lie. I have managed birds with netting that I cover the beds with. Regarding pill bugs, I had an infestation of them this year so many of my berries had some damage. Pill bugs love dark and damp environments so I laid down a layer of straw so the strawberries would be off the damp soil. I also watered in the morning so everything had a chance to dry out through the day. It seems to help but a level of damage should always be expected. 'Tis the life a gardener. We have to share our garden with the bugs. ;) Happy gardening!
Those sweet dogs!
They are so sweet! 😊
Can you replant the runner to produce a new plant? Your strawberries look delicious and juicy.
Thank you! Yes, you can! There are a few options but the one that seems to work the best is place the runner in water. I haven’t personally done this yet but I plan to experiment with it this summer 😊
Can the shoots be placed in water til in roots ( like a cutting) then planted in a separate container?
Yes it can! I haven't done it myself but I know of others who have. Let me know if you try it and it works :)
Do those runners turn into mother plants the next year?
Yes, they do.
very nice.thank you soo much dear.is it all season?
These are an everbearing variety. :)
Hi
Thanks for the wonderful video...
How do you get such a lush and BIG LEAVES in your strawberry...what do you feed your strawberry....can you make make a video on strawberry soil, nutrition and feeding..my strawberry have small leaves and when i try giving fertilizer...it burns
That's a great video request! I will look into doing that. Some of my strawberries have yellow leaves this year which is indicative of nitrogen deficiency so I added some blood meal around each plant. Compost is your best friend, but I also recommend a berry specific fertilizer (preferably organic). This is a good one: www.amazon.com/Fruit-Berry-Food-4lb/dp/B07KV692TG/ref=asc_df_B07KV692TG/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459411117297&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3949616658100559483&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033549&hvtargid=pla-943532672389&psc=1
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Everyone will love the video, thanks for your prompt response👍
How often do you replace your plants? I have read every 3 years… would you then save some of the runners, let them root then swap out one of the older plants?
Exactly right! I wish I had made that more clear in my video so I plan to do another video later this month about that process of refreshing my strawberry beds. Hope that helps
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Will you continue to grow them in the same bed or rotate to another bed or area?
@@sandrataylor1180 Good question! It's recommended to move them to new beds (like all other crop rotations). However... I don't plan to do that. Because I'm using raised beds and the soil settles so much, I have to add up to a foot of new soil when I renovate them so it's basically like starting fresh. Strawberry roots are very shallow so they won't go near the old soil a foot down. I made a new video of my strawberry bed renovation so check it out: th-cam.com/video/QscI_SeU3Ow/w-d-xo.html
last spring i grew 4 june bearing strawberries in a planter pot on my deck sometime in june and they produced some good strawberries but they were small. looking at my strawberries now, they still look dead, i thought they are supposed to come back. is there something I did wrong? The strawberries did attract some japanese beetles, aphids, and had some spider webs on it which ruined some strawberries. do you have a method to reducing the pests? I saw you used straw to prevent slugs from getting to your strawberries.
Hi Trey. Good questions. With my more recent research, it seems that June bearing strawberries need to be “renovated” every year, where you let them put out a couple runners to start some daughter plants, then pull out the mother plants after they’re done fruiting. This may fix your maybe dead strawberry plant problem. If they are dead, get some new plants and try the tip above and see how they do. Regarding your pest problem: pests are attracted to weak plants so find ways to build them up with some worm castings, a balanced fertilizer and deep consistent watering. Also, make sure you have some flowers nearby that will attract those beneficial insects that love eating the pests. In the moment though, you can always use neem oil sprayed on the plants (all natural) to help reduce the pest population. These are my recommendations based on what you told me and I hope it’s helpful. I have more videos lined up this year on strawberry care so check back again. Let me know if you have more questions. Wishing you luck!
I am from Bangladesh,great video, how is your new born baby, I want to cultivate Albion here so can you help me from where I can buy the sidling . Thanks
Hi! Thanks for watching from across the ocean! My baby is thriving. ;) I am unsure as to what can be shipped to Bangladesh. I bought mine from a local nursery. I wish I could be more helpful.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank you and love for your baby. I will let you know after knowing shipping rules of Bangladesh.
If you provide me just only runners than I will grow it here..
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Hi, do mind if i order runners from your strawberries Albino, I'm interested. From the Philippines.Thank you...
I had 6 plants.... mix of both June and Ever.... that I turned into 200 plants by using the runners.... And just sold them.... I also had my time where I cut them to focus on the fruit growth for my 35 plants for my strawberry patch. But my strawberried are always small. I do not the variety of either as they were given to me. But what variety exactly are yours that are getting that big. I also struggle at times with it being too hot come summer in NC. We will run about 90-100 easily for months. And it seems to be 60-80 deg is the optimal temp. But mostly curious as the variety of the large strawberry you have so I can get them and start growing them. Thanks!
The variety I have is called Albion Everbearing/day neutral (there’s mixed information on which it is). Strawberries thrive in zones 5-8 and so you most likely are a bit hot for them in the summer. It’s not impossible though to still get large berries. Maybe there’s a way you can add shade in the heat of summer? There’s a video by another TH-cam creator who shares how she handles growing strawberries in AZ where it’s really hot. I’ll find it and link it in the next comment. Best of luck!
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@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank You so much. We do not normally get this hot in NC until mid July to August. But this year has been really hot and really dry really early where I am at. Which is VERY VERY unusual. We have many many strawberry farms around me for people to go and pick. Just an unusual year. But thank for info and link. I sincerley appreciate it!!!
@@adamgusse9484 you’re very welcome! I hope this helps. We have had the exact opposite weather here in WA state… wet and cool spring. It’s barely been hitting the 70s even in June!
Hi I have stor bought strawberry plant. It is in the plastic container. It was fine in beginning but now leaf getting burn looking and strawberry are still growing but the size of strawberry is less than half inch. Can please help me should I transfer in ground soil. Please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 help
Hi Sadia. I’m sorry this is happening. It sounds like there might be a nutrient deficiency. Anything planted in a container needs to be fertilized more often then things planted in ground as the nutrients get leached from the soil faster in pots. Either consider transplanting it, or apply a general purpose well rounded fertilizer and continue to use it every 3-4 weeks. That may fix the problem. I hope this helps. Best of luck.
TLDW: Prune off runners from the strawberry plant.
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Can the runners that you remove be planted to start a new plant elsewhere.
That’s a common question I get. Unless they have roots already, they may not root on their own when clipped from the mother plant
Thank you for replying.
Thanks which fertilizer do u use regularly
Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Your comment got lost for some reason. I am currently researching into the best fertilizer for strawberries, but a general all purpose fertilizer that is balanced in the 3 key nutrients is fine. Something with NPK numbers that are close to equal (like 4-3-4). A new video will be coming out on that soon so be sure to subscribe. Hope this helps! Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thanks for d valuable information 👍
Maybe I missed it … but what is the variety name of this type ?
The variety is called Albion and is a day-neutral variety
Everberries can they produce strawberry in winter
Not that I know of, though if you live in a warm climate, they may produce some berries.
Definitely the type of strawberry. Her number one hint should read..Buy gurneys whoppers so your strawberries are genetically modified to reach these sizes
Is it sun plant or shade plant??
Strawberries need full sun, at a minimum, 8 hours. Hope this helps!
Hi, is there any soil that's not made out of cow or chicken manuer. I know it sounds funny but I can't stand the thought of growing my food is an animals poo.
Any recommendations?
That's a good question. If you buy garden mix, its highly likely it will have some sort of manure added as it's a cheap source of "compost material". You may not be able to buy bulk soil due to this. I did a quick search and it's difficult to find unless you make your own mix or use your native soil. You can make your own compost with kitchen scraps and garden waste to add to your existing soil. My husband does a video on composting if this is an interest of yours. Hope this helps! th-cam.com/video/w08zRDR1BpAh/w-d-xo.htmlttps://th-cam.com/video/w08zRDR1BpA/w-d-xo.html
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thanks so much . I did some research on my own last night to learn how to make fruit & vegetable compost 😅
@@kamiperzsi7495 Good luck! :)
What verity of ever bearing do you have with the big leaves and strawberries
This variety you see here is called Albion and is an everbearing strawberry. :)
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I can't believe nobody knew this already.
I did not know this and I've been gardening my whole life (44)
In my defense I've never really bothered with strawberries til now
30 yrs ago I bought 2-6 pks of strawberries before the internet was in every house hold. Via an article in a gardening book I learned to plant the 1 yr old mother plant and to not allow the fruit to set but to snip off the blooms. Use a bright piece of yard or those piled up bread twist ties select the bright yellow or orange ones and place them around the base of each mother. Allow the runners to grow, root and mature. Depending on where you live 6 to 8 weeks before nightly temps are 32* transplant those runner babies on the other end of the strawberry bed(s). The next year allow the mother plants to set fruit but remove all runners as soon as you see them. Then the following years those original mother plants will produce huge berries, just keep removing the runners. Now you have those babies on the other end of the patch. Do the same thing with those the following year. Select one color per years worth of growth so not to mix them up and write on an index card whats what. The 2nd yr plants can then be moved closer to the original mothers and keep those runners snipped. After about 4 to 5 yrs start to replace the oldest mothers as many feel they start producing less fruits as they age. Have fun and gt down and dirty in the garden...!
Hi! This is very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing. That’s quite a system. Has it worked well for you? Do you have raised beds? I did a follow up video on renovating a strawberry bed and I had to do the process all at once because I needed to refill my raised bed with more soil. I like this process you have here as it makes it so you don’t have to renovate all the plants all at once.
Thank you 😊
Thank you for your advice! Using the bread ties are a smart idea! Thank you 4 this. It gives me a great start on my new bed next season!
I'll be giving this a try ! Thanks for sharing.
Try an individual pot, i made an experiment by planting half of my plant directly to the ground and some on a pot. They grow better in an individual pot. And each of the plant grow differently. Like it evolve themselves i was shocked to find one of my strawberry goes red(leaf). The pot one grow more fruit and free disease. The mixed one in the ground tend to be sharing disease. It leaf growth isnt good at all, also try hanging pot
I push the end into a 3 in pot for 5 days and let it send a root down before I clip it of the mother.
I've found that any longer than 5 days and you wont get as big of berries.
This is the way I ve found to get the best of both. I have allstars and quinault and this has worked for both for me
Very nice~ How long have those strawberry plants been in the garden beds? To save the clipped runners, put them in water, with the torn off end in the water and keep the growing tip out of the water but still resting on the water, and they will form roots.
Hi! These plants have been in the raised beds for about 2 years. In 1-2 more years, I plan to refresh the bed by doing exactly as you described! :) Cheers!
How do you rest the growing tip on the water?
Just got a Seascape variety plant (no doubt grown from a runner, lol) and was looking for tips on what to do with it. I will keep this tip and remember it when my plant is much bigger, because I want LOTS of strawberries and strawberry plants in the future. Been dreaming of that hanging, indoor strawberry cornucopia... :)
Thank you!
Actually water tends to rot them quickly. Letting them root directly into the ground either from the container of planting out the container gives it the best chance. There are ways to use water but they are still more advanced than me
Thank you answered my question 😊
“Nothing beats home grown berries” I agree 100%!
They truly are the best! 👌🏼
This is very interesting. I grow strawberries commercially (we have about 10 million plants this year) and most of the advice I see on the youtubes is utterly ludicrous. This however, is not. We only keep our plants for one season, and we go to great lengths to cut the runners off early in the year so the crowns grow bigger and the plant sets more, larger fruit. There may or may not be an obscene amount of Calcium and Potassium Nitrate and Magnesium Sulphate involved.
Towards the end of the season though, we start letting runners take root and cut them from the mother plant. We put them in trays and that becomes some of next year's plants.
This is very interesting to read! I know most commercial growers treat strawberries as annuals but I wasn’t aware they removed runners. Good to know. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tips
Why dont ye get 3-5 years out of a planting of strawberries? Why change them every year? Isnt that a lot of work?
@@sandrashane677 Do you really want to know the answer?
@Brad Carby yes please!
First year growing strawberries here! Have little day neutral strawberries that are just starting to form! I pinched the buds until beginning of this month and they are flowering like crazy!
Wonderful! I hope they produce an abundance for you! :)
Thank you so much for this video! Just an additional tip for those having trouble getting bigger berries .. it may be to do with pollination. If - like me - you live in 'the 'burbs' rather than out in the country, you may be noticing a decline in pollinator populations. Try planting flowering, pollinator attracting plants such as marigolds around/within your strawberry patches (mine are in hanging pots). If the time to do this has passed, then get yourself a soft-bristled paint-brush and hand pollinate your flowers, from the outside in towards the centre of the flower. If you have the time to do this daily (for a few pots of plants like I have), then great! Otherwise, you can get away with doing this every 3-4 days. Strawberry flowers are self-pollinating (meaning even just one flower can fertilize itself to produce a fruit as it has both male and female flower parts). However, some help from you may be needed. Brush from the outside (male parts) of the flower to the inside (female part*s*). For the size of the fruit to be maximized to its capacity, *each* female part needs to be pollinated. Hope this helps as an addition to the great info in this video!
Thank you for sharing this great tip!!
strawberry plants can self-pollinate
Salvia is a great plant to have near your berries. Bees love “Salvia”
For anyone reading when removing the runners it actually works way easier to just push down instead of pinching off. The whole section would get removed with ease
Actually that’s something you DONT want to do after the second year. Otherwise your killing off as they will die off after 3 years , so you’ll need those runners as you called them to continue the reproduction. They are actually called daughters from the mother plant. The reason for a large strawberry is the variety & FERTILIZER every 7 to 10 days during the fruit bearing season.
What type of fertilizer do I need to use?
You’re strawberries are huge & they look so AH-MAZING!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you!
Pollination is more important than removing runners!!
Excellent video, thank you! Now I'm all set to grow my strawberries.😋❤️
Thanks for sharing such a great tip👏🏽keep up the good work fellow gardener 👍🏽
Thank you! Happy gardening!
Noooooo don't cut em off just yet. Let them root replant them then cut off the long runner once planted.
Thank you!!! I’m so glad I came across this video! I planted 50 bareroot strawberries in March/April and they are all smaller strawberries now that they are producing and tons of runners are coming! Now I know how to get big strawberries!!! Yay!!!
Glad to hear it! Hope this helps! Happy gardening
So did it work
I like what you did and that’s a great idea, but the runners can also be soaked in water and make another plant and possibly sell them. And definitely use a scissors. You were really fighting there to pinch that off you can use a small scissors.
hi sanctuary gardens 🤗
this video came across my feed and im so glad it did.
im actually watching you on my tv and laptop 🤣😂 i have strawberries and will definitely try this idea the next time i renovate my patch (your video im watching on tv).
i'm in zone 10. i'm not sure where you are, but i'm going to watch more of your videos to see what i can learn and what may work in my raised beds.
where do you get your straw? tfs
Hi there! I'm so glad you're here! Thanks for stopping by. :) I hope you learn a lot from my videos! More strawberry ones will be coming out in August (a whole series!). I am in zone 8b so I have a shorter growing season than you. I purchased my strawberries from a local nursery that specializes in berries and shrubs. I got mine as bareroot (my recommendation). Hope this helps! See you in a future comment thread! ;)
This might sound weird. But you look like you're supposed to have a British accent 😂
Haha! This is the funniest comment I’ve received.
Hey, what fertilizer do you use when the plant is that big? Thanks
I am switching to the fertilizer listed below. Follow the instructions on it and it should work great. Espoma Organic Berry-Tone Granules Organic Plant Food 4 lb. www.amazon.com/dp/B088WZH9KG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9X6WAMGMN44E5SA3G1DA
Thank you! This is my first year gardening so I’m not expecting fruit until next year, but I’ll make sure to remember to do this!
I wish you all the best! 😊
Do I need to fertilize strawberry plants other than when first planted? If so with what?
@@slk363 yes, strawberries should be fertilized after their last crop. Try to avoid fertilizing them in the spring right before they start flowering, otherwise they may put out only leaves and less or no fruit. I plan to do a video on fertilizing strawberries once they’re fruiting (soon!) so watch for that.
The tip could have been done in a 60 second video. Snip off the runners. No need to spend almost ten minutes watching.
Thank you for the feedback. This is the most common criticism I get from this video and I’ve taken it to heart and made adjustments to my more recent videos.
We just moved to this new house last fall. Previously, my strawberries were attacked by slugs, snails and birds before we ever got fruit to eat. Now, we are in a drier climate and will be purchasing my new berries within the month. This nice tip comes in perfect timing with the onset of gardening season. Thank you. 6:47
How are they ?
Hey I was wondering if you could replant the runner and have another plant grow from it?
Yes. I have a whole video on what to do with runners besides clip them off!
those would be gone the first day ripe in my yard
Thank you for the tip! What about your soil? What is the best? Thanks!
I recommend getting a good quality garden mix from a local landscape company if you’re doing raised beds. Strawberries like slightly acidic soil (5.5-6.5) so test your soil to see where it lands then add elemental sulfur to acidify it if needed. I have a video on acidifying soil if you need further help
My goodness, you have the most beautiful strawberry plants and strawberries. Mine are pitiful compared to yours. What zone are you in? How much and what kind of fertilizer do you use? How do you keep insects, ants, snails, slugs, etc off of your plants? Thank you!!
Thank you! We are in zone 8b and I am trying out a new fertilizer by Espoma (www.amazon.com/Espoma-Berry-Tone-Natural-Organic-Fertilizer/dp/B08DYDS1GZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CCX81N75BHQE&dchild=1&keywords=espoma+berry+tone&qid=1629607080&sprefix=espoma+berry%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-2). I follow the instructions on the bag for doses and I usually do it twice a year (spring and fall). Regarding insects... I pick my battles! Haha! I have had a big slug problem this year so I'm literally going outside and picking them up and throwing them over the fence. It works! My biggest issue is sow bugs and I have yet to try the solution of putting half a melon upside down in the area to attract them then relocate them to my compost pile. I hear it works well. But really, we just suffer some losses. It hasn't been so bad that I've done anything about it really. Hope this helps!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Hi, nice informative video. I got 10 plants at the farmers market that are Ozark Beauties, never grown them before. So excited to follow you and check back when I’m not sure about those runners. Can I just give those to a friend so she can grow berries?
My experience is the opposite. My junebearing strawberries are twice as big as my everbearing berries. I think it’s because they only fruit once but maybe it’s different for everyone
Great video, but I bought 6 Bonnie strawberries plants they are are big green plants but my issue is the berries are small or appear small. Thanks for any advice.
Hmm... Is this their first year? See what next year yields. It may be the variety as well. If you fertilize them, wait until the fall typically as sometimes fertilizers that are high in nitrogen will create beautiful lush plants, but few fruit. Clipping the runners like I show here should help as well. Hope you have better luck!
Not suppose to pick your strawberries the first year. Pick off the blooms and keep your runners from taking off and the following year....WOW.
Well your strawberries are way bigger than mine
What is your method of watering , these soaker hoses doesn't put out evenly amounts of water . I would love ❤️ to share a picture of my June berries I picked this year.
I use overhead watering for now. It works well for me. I haven’t used soaker hoses but I know they do need to run for a long time to get enough water out. I’d love to see a picture of your strawberries!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden how can I send you pictures 📸
Glad I stumbled upon this video. AMAZING! I’m getting ready to start my first indoor and outdoor grow so it was great to see what a runner looks like and how to encourage strawberries to grow as large as possible on the mother plant. Thank you.
I’m glad it was helpful! Thanks for following along! More great videos coming! I have a whole playlist on strawberries!
Wow. Nice plants. What variety are these? thanks
This variety is called Albion and is our favorite. 😊
I am not perfect. But my strawberry plants are getting real good fertilized soil, rain and sunlight and when ever the mini plant grows I cut them all together and plant them. I started having them all from a single plant.
What kind of strawberry plants are those those are huge leaves
They are called Albion Everbearing variety. :)
Can you replant the runners in another pot?
Yes, you can! You can either let them take root in a pot of soil before clipping it from the mother plant or put the runner in water until it grows roots. Hope this helps!
Thank you! I've always been great at growing strawberry plants but lacking on the actual strawberries lol
You’re welcome and I hope you have better luck! 😊
Oh my gosh! Your berries look AMAZING and big. I know the flavor is off the chart. Enjoy!!
Thank you! They are scrumptious! 🍓😉
I am starting a small raised bed of 2x4 ft . I was going to plant everglow and Seascape plants .
Any idea if this small space will produce much fruit ?
About how much in quarts ?
June strawberry short cake for family of 5 , and fresh picked till sept.
Let mrnknow what you think
Thank ypu
I like to plant strawberries in my cinderblocks that I use for my raise bed. They can crawl out the runners and make more strawberries on the ground. The way we used to do. It was when we got too much tangles we would just mow the strawberries on the ground outside the raised bed I also told my husband to mow them down where my mother planted them in the back corner of the yard because they got poison ivy in them so my mother-in-law decided she could pick them and she rubbed her face. She rubbed her lips. she rubbed her eyes. She had poison ivy everywhere don’t do that. Just mow them down. They still got under the ground. They’ll come back next year.
How do h keep critters out of there? I have slugs in my strawberries ahhhhh I need help
This is a tough one to answer because so many critters love strawberries just as much as we do (bird, slugs, pill bugs, rabbits, etc). I have a slug problem too and I’m trying out a few things to see what helps. At the moment, the thing that is working for me is going out at dusk or early morning and hand picking the slugs and putting them in a bucket of soapy water. It’s gross and I hate it but it’s working to lessen the population (I wear gloves because they’re gross to touch!). I’m going to be doing a video on slug control since this is something I’m actively fighting right now. Some other options are beer traps, crushed egg shells around your plants, copper bands around raised beds, Sluggo (bait and kills them)… I’ll be trying all these and giving a review of them. Hope this helps. Good luck!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thank you for the suggestions. I have been using D.Earth. but my patch is so thick. Like u stated in ur video I let my runners run and have lots of plants and small berries. So I’m trying to decide how to handle this to start from scratch i guess u can say. But without mowing the hole thing down. Feels like suck a waste. But it’s hard to get anything down to ground level with that going on. So I’m going to have to definitely do something. But I look forward to ur video and can’t wait to see what you come up with.
If you want big strawberries, purchase a large breed of strawberry, like Maxim strawberries.
This is my first year growing strawberries. I happened to see them at a nursery and decided to give them a try. Right now I have them in a planter, but I know I need something bigger and I do have a runner. I will snip it and put it in water until the roots start showing. Thank you for this video. It was very helpful. I have a small strawberry growing. How do I determine when they need to be picked?
I'm so glad you are trying out strawberries! If you want more plants, you can sacrifice a lot of fruit for more runners so you can propagate your patch. Then next year, start pruning off the runners. I know my strawberries are ready to pick when there is no white left on it (only red). :). Hope this helps! Happy gardening!
How do you prep your strawberries for the winter… Do you cut them down to the soil service? I’m in the Northeast and not sure if I leave them alone or cut them down before the winter.
A good question! So... for your june bearing varieties, it is recommended to mow them down to just above the crown as soon as they're done fruiting (mid summer typically). You then can thin the rows out. For everbearing/day neutral varieties, do not mow down. Just cover with mulch (I like straw) and remove it as soon as you're past your harshest frost but before the plants start coming out of dormancy. Hope that helps!