Allotments 4 All
Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: jillye on May 23, 2008, 10:37:53
-
Hi, im just looking for a bit of advice - I currently have some strawberry plants (they are now 2 years old) in a planter at home and some others that I took as runners (which are now 1 years old) in another tub.
I have just taken over an allotment and would like to plant out the strawberry plants at the allotment.
Is it ok to move and re-plant the strawberry plants now - one of them is just coming into flower. If I cant move them now what is the best time to move them?
Thanks for any advice you can give.
-
Not ideal to move anything when in flower but I think if you do not disturb the roots you will probally get away with it. :)
-
I agree - if you can avoid it then not in flower, however, in this case they will do sooooo much better if in good furtile soil and enough room to spread so I would replant ASAP.
I only planted my strawberries a couple of weekends ago as I had overwintered them in small pots (moving them from one allotment site to another!) and they have already put on quite a spurt of growth.... go for it
-
I found some strawberries in our lottie patch a couple of weeks ago where I thought there was a path - so assumed the green sprouting things were weeds (I'm new at this lol - and I've got loads of weeds to clear). It wasnt until I saw the white flowers and googled a bit I realised they were strawberries - dug them up (a bit of a sorry state due to poor ground and being trampled on) and put them into a prepared bed.
They are now growing nice and strong, so moving them hasnt seemed to harm them.
I guess it's just the chance you take ;)
-
If you move them now you'll probably affect the crop, but they'll soon recover.
-
I always find that strawberries recover very well if re-sited at any stage.
Very little seems to bother them but they do perform better in decent soil where the roots have more room.
I would go with the move, keep them well watered though.