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lowc

Posted 9.43AM
Fri 1 Aug 2008

hi I am growing strawberries for the first time. I am growing them in pots and have loads of fruit on but there are alot of long tendrils coming from all the plants I believe they are called runners do I leave them on or cut them off. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 
mondaychild

Posted 4.49PM
Fri 1 Aug 2008

Along these runners will appear small strawberry plants. If you press these small plants on to the surface of soil in small pots, they will root and grow to new plants. Keep them watered. Next year you can cut the tendrils and plant the new plants somewhere else to grow new fill-sized plants. If you have no space to enlarge your strawberry bed, cut them off.

 
lowc

Posted 4.01PM
Sat 2 Aug 2008

many thanks for the help and advice have placed them in pots this afternoon

 
 
 

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