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 ;)
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 (http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/strawberries/growing.html)
Good luck
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).
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.