strawberry plants

[gardening giraffe]

Here is a pic of one of my strawberry plants, they look nice and healthy but not sure when they'l fruit, any ideas  ???  ???  ???

[gardening giraffe]

[mat]

Hi

Have you any ideas on what the variety is called?

mat

[gardening giraffe]

Not a clue, they were already on the plot, runners everywhere!! I have put them all in one place to grow so i can net them from the birds and hopefully taste them this year  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

They will only produce crops for about three years, so your best bet might be to take the small runners and start a new bed with them.

[gardening giraffe]

thankyou Robert, will get me some new strawberry plants in  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

What you need to do (I've been really remiss at this, and need to re-do my strawberry bed altogether) is to take the small runners and plant a nes bed. Do this every three years or so to maintain your crops.

[weedin project]

I grew mine in the greenhouse last year and had a steady (if smallish) crop from 14 plants all summer long.  They were kept individually in 5" or 7" pots in two of those big grow-bag trays on a trestle table across the back of the greenhouse.  They were bottom-watered in the trays, but feed was direct onto the foliage.

Last weekend I re-potted them into home made compost, and was able to split some of them so that the 14 are now 22.  All of the original 14 were layered from runners the year before (2004).  There weren't any runners on them this time round, maybe they'll shoot this year instead? Don't know what variety they are, but they were tasty.