The formation of runners is seen on all June-bearing strawberry varieties, and on mosteverbearingor day-neutral strawberries.
you’re able to think of strawberry runners as baby strawberry plants.
Over time, you may see new, young strawberry plants emerge next to your original plants.
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These are the clones created by strawberry runners.
Read on for how to successfully use strawberry runners to grow more strawberries.
What Are Strawberry Runners?
These nodes produce small roots that allow for propagation and can be planted.
Can You Grow More Strawberries With Runners?
But transplanting the runners is a way to keep replenishing your strawberry bed with new young plants.
Plants produce runners after they’ve already produced fruit for the season.
The parent strawberry plant and the runners form flower buds within the crown in late summer or early fall.
The plants will move into dormancy as the temperatures drop in the fall.
This gives them plenty of time to get re-established and produce berries the following spring.
If they are still attached with runners, gently snip them.
Plant them in their new spot, adding some fresh soil.
Strawberries like neutral, rich, organic soil.
you’ve got the option to start a whole newstrawberry bedif you wish.
Plant Your Strawberry Runners
Once you prepare the new strawberry bed, plant the runners.
double-check that the crown is above the soil line.
Tamp soil lightly around the roots, and give them a good drink of water.
Water them every other day for about ten days to help them get a good start.
Mulching in the fall provides some winter protection.
it’s possible for you to also guide runners to ensure good soil contact.
It will then root and can eventually be snipped from the parent plant.
There are a few tricks togrowing healthy strawberries.
Sometimes, it takes the younger runner plants a year or two to startproducing abundant fruit.
You could cut the runners off and dispose of them, if you don’t want your strawberries spreading.
You could also leave them be, encouraging the runners totake root and grow more plants.
Finally, you could separate the runners and plant them elsewhere.
No, it’s not possible to cut off too many strawberry runners.
Even cutting off all the runners is okay.
