Strawberry runners

[Ricado]

Does anyone have advice on when to pull runners from strawberries, given that I want a self sufficient 3 year cycle ?

What about disease ? Will this be carried over on runners ?

and how do you stop leaf miners organically ?

Any advice much appreciated ;)

[Ricado]

[Curryandchips]

For a self sufficient 3 year cycle, you really want 3 beds, or your bed divided into 3, so that each year you remove the oldest bed and replant new runners.

The following link may answer your questions, or at least be a start. Apologies for it being an American site ...

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/strawberries/growing.html

Good luck

[Ricado]

Thanks for that.

The variety i have is florence.  I think ive allowed too many runners on the oldest bed and the middle crowns are fading out (also due to suspected virus/ wilting).

[Palustris]

People always go on about virus in strawbs, but the best cropper we have is an unknown one which came from my father's garden over 30 years ago.