As soon as your strawberries have finished fruiting, it’s a good time to raise some new plants from their abundant runners – the long stems emerging from the main plant – to give you new strawberry plants for free. Monty Don guides you through this simple process in this short video clip, showing you how to select the best runners and then plant them in individual pots. You can then use them to create a new strawberry bed or strawberry planter, to ensure a plentiful crop in future years.
Find out everything you need to know about growing strawberries.
It’s also a good time to clear away all the straw or matting to discourage slugs and snails from nibbling at the plants. Do this now and you can look forward to more plants and a bumper harvest next summer.
Find out how to propagate strawberries from runners, below.
from BBC Gardeners World Magazine https://ift.tt/JyE4lx3
