30 yrs ago I bought 2-6 pks of strawberries before the internet was in every house hold. Via an article in a gardening book I learned to plant the 1 yr old mother plant and to not allow the fruit to set but to snip off the blooms. Use a bright piece of yard or those piled up bread twist ties select the bright yellow or orange ones and place them around the base of each mother. Allow the runners to grow, root and mature. Depending on where you live 6 to 8 weeks before nightly temps are 32* transplant those runner babies on the other end of the strawberry bed(s). The next year allow the mother plants to set fruit but remove all runners as soon as you see them. Then the following years those original mother plants will produce huge berries, just keep removing the runners. Now you have those babies on the other end of the patch. Do the same thing with those the following year. Select one color per years worth of growth so not to mix them up and write on an index card whats what. The 2nd yr plants can then be moved closer to the original mothers and keep those runners snipped. After about 4 to 5 yrs start to replace the oldest mothers as many feel they start producing less fruits as they age. Have fun and gt down and dirty in the garden...!
Hi! This is very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing. That’s quite a system. Has it worked well for you? Do you have raised beds? I did a follow up video on renovating a strawberry bed and I had to do the process all at once because I needed to refill my raised bed with more soil. I like this process you have here as it makes it so you don’t have to renovate all the plants all at once.
Try an individual pot, i made an experiment by planting half of my plant directly to the ground and some on a pot. They grow better in an individual pot. And each of the plant grow differently. Like it evolve themselves i was shocked to find one of my strawberry goes red(leaf). The pot one grow more fruit and free disease. The mixed one in the ground tend to be sharing disease. It leaf growth isnt good at all, also try hanging pot
I tried cutting my runners off and rooting them with hormone and it works, so you let the mother focus on berries and at the same time you can make more plants.
Awesome! That’s a question I get a lot if the runner can be used to make a new plant after it’s been clipped so I’m glad to hear you’ve had success with it.
Can't you use the daughters to start another branch on the family tree? 😊 I mean if you're getting rid of them might as well make use of them. Make more strawberries 😁
@@terrig2467 yes. If you have the room. In time you will get overcrowding. I think taking the runners and planting them next to a row of mother's would work and then in 3 years remove the mother's when the daughters are producing well. The strawberries will be small if you don't thin them out at some point. The mother last 3-4 years.
For those reading this and if she doesn't mention this in the video, it is vitally important to use runners to get new plants but restrict this effort to one or two plants as needed. A strawberry plant will produce for 3-5 years and then its production falls off.
Yes, thank you for bringing this up. In fact, we have plans to renovate on our strawberry beds this year with the runners since the production had declined slightly. They are about 4 years old.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden so it’s not needed the first 3 years? I planted strawberries from seed a year ago, right now they started flowering , the plants are big but not as big as yours so I wasn’t sure if I should cut flowers so that the plants can still grow My plants started running a while ago so I have new patches that flower pretty quickly , so do I just cut off all the runners now or do I just wait until second year since 1st year plants don’t produce good fruit anyway? (Especially not in my weather )
@@vastya.3255 hi there! Regarding your questions, for the first few months after planting a strawberry plant, remove the blossoms to give the plant energy to focus on a good root system. It’s recommended to remove all flowers for the first year on June bearing, and to remove flowers until July for Everbearing. I would also start removing runners from your Everbearing plants unless you need/want more plants. For June bearing, I would let them produce some runners but don’t let them go crazy. You’re right that second year plants produce more and better fruit. I have a follow up video on my channel I posted recently on how to renovate an Everbearing strawberry bed. You might find it helpful as I clear a few things up. 😊 hope this answers your questions.
I push the end into a 3 in pot for 5 days and let it send a root down before I clip it of the mother. I've found that any longer than 5 days and you wont get as big of berries. This is the way I ve found to get the best of both. I have allstars and quinault and this has worked for both for me
Very nice~ How long have those strawberry plants been in the garden beds? To save the clipped runners, put them in water, with the torn off end in the water and keep the growing tip out of the water but still resting on the water, and they will form roots.
Hi! These plants have been in the raised beds for about 2 years. In 1-2 more years, I plan to refresh the bed by doing exactly as you described! :) Cheers!
Just got a Seascape variety plant (no doubt grown from a runner, lol) and was looking for tips on what to do with it. I will keep this tip and remember it when my plant is much bigger, because I want LOTS of strawberries and strawberry plants in the future. Been dreaming of that hanging, indoor strawberry cornucopia... :) Thank you!
Actually water tends to rot them quickly. Letting them root directly into the ground either from the container of planting out the container gives it the best chance. There are ways to use water but they are still more advanced than me
I planted a dozen Quinalts in March. They became 100 plants, but I saw no fruit until this month(November)...three small strawberries. Wish I had known your trick. There’s always next year. 🙂 Thank you.
My goodness, you have the most beautiful strawberry plants and strawberries. Mine are pitiful compared to yours. What zone are you in? How much and what kind of fertilizer do you use? How do you keep insects, ants, snails, slugs, etc off of your plants? Thank you!!
Thank you! We are in zone 8b and I am trying out a new fertilizer by Espoma (www.amazon.com/Espoma-Berry-Tone-Natural-Organic-Fertilizer/dp/B08DYDS1GZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CCX81N75BHQE&dchild=1&keywords=espoma+berry+tone&qid=1629607080&sprefix=espoma+berry%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-2). I follow the instructions on the bag for doses and I usually do it twice a year (spring and fall). Regarding insects... I pick my battles! Haha! I have had a big slug problem this year so I'm literally going outside and picking them up and throwing them over the fence. It works! My biggest issue is sow bugs and I have yet to try the solution of putting half a melon upside down in the area to attract them then relocate them to my compost pile. I hear it works well. But really, we just suffer some losses. It hasn't been so bad that I've done anything about it really. Hope this helps!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Hi, nice informative video. I got 10 plants at the farmers market that are Ozark Beauties, never grown them before. So excited to follow you and check back when I’m not sure about those runners. Can I just give those to a friend so she can grow berries?
I recommend getting a good quality garden mix from a local landscape company if you’re doing raised beds. Strawberries like slightly acidic soil (5.5-6.5) so test your soil to see where it lands then add elemental sulfur to acidify it if needed. I have a video on acidifying soil if you need further help
This is very interesting. I grow strawberries commercially (we have about 10 million plants this year) and most of the advice I see on the youtubes is utterly ludicrous. This however, is not. We only keep our plants for one season, and we go to great lengths to cut the runners off early in the year so the crowns grow bigger and the plant sets more, larger fruit. There may or may not be an obscene amount of Calcium and Potassium Nitrate and Magnesium Sulphate involved. Towards the end of the season though, we start letting runners take root and cut them from the mother plant. We put them in trays and that becomes some of next year's plants.
This is very interesting to read! I know most commercial growers treat strawberries as annuals but I wasn’t aware they removed runners. Good to know. Thanks for sharing!
How do you manage growing strawberries with no bug bites? Those pill bugs are ruining my strawberries, also the birds eat them when they still green. So frustrated!!!
I would love to say my strawberries never have bug damage, but that would be a lie. I have managed birds with netting that I cover the beds with. Regarding pill bugs, I had an infestation of them this year so many of my berries had some damage. Pill bugs love dark and damp environments so I laid down a layer of straw so the strawberries would be off the damp soil. I also watered in the morning so everything had a chance to dry out through the day. It seems to help but a level of damage should always be expected. 'Tis the life a gardener. We have to share our garden with the bugs. ;) Happy gardening!
First year growing strawberries here! Have little day neutral strawberries that are just starting to form! I pinched the buds until beginning of this month and they are flowering like crazy!
Awesome!!! I literally just planted 14 everbearing fingers crossed !! My question is this , could those suckers ( runners) be planted elsewhere to produce a new plant separate from the mother plant?
Absolutely! You can start a whole new strawberry bed with runners from the mother plants you originally planted. You can do it a number of ways. Wait until the runners show roots before clipping and planting, wait until they actually root themselves into the soil before transplanting, or (I've been told this works but haven't tried it myself) I understand you can place the end that will root into water until it starts rooting then plant it. Happy gardening!
Yes indeed. I started last summer with 6 Quinault everbearing plants. By nestling the runner down slightly into/onto moist soil and pinning the runner down with an upside down U shaped coated heavy wire, the runners reliably rooted. The runners would even then continue to creep, grow and extend over the ground, allowing a single runner to root and produce a few new plants. In early fall i then snipped each runner stem and dug up each new young daughter plant and planted each spread out so each had a foot between other plants. I went from 6 plants to 50 and even started clipping the runners off, figuring there was not much time for any more to root and grow big enough roots to survive the winter in zone 5 with some pine needles mulched over them for the winter. If you don’t ensure good soil contact and keep it moist at the "plant root nodes" on the runner stem, the runner may just dry up and "burn off" like a dud fuse. With some attention and care the rooting success rate can be very near 100%. One plant will send out multiple runners and each runner can produce multiple new daughter plants.
For anyone reading when removing the runners it actually works way easier to just push down instead of pinching off. The whole section would get removed with ease
Thank you so much for this video! Just an additional tip for those having trouble getting bigger berries .. it may be to do with pollination. If - like me - you live in 'the 'burbs' rather than out in the country, you may be noticing a decline in pollinator populations. Try planting flowering, pollinator attracting plants such as marigolds around/within your strawberry patches (mine are in hanging pots). If the time to do this has passed, then get yourself a soft-bristled paint-brush and hand pollinate your flowers, from the outside in towards the centre of the flower. If you have the time to do this daily (for a few pots of plants like I have), then great! Otherwise, you can get away with doing this every 3-4 days. Strawberry flowers are self-pollinating (meaning even just one flower can fertilize itself to produce a fruit as it has both male and female flower parts). However, some help from you may be needed. Brush from the outside (male parts) of the flower to the inside (female part*s*). For the size of the fruit to be maximized to its capacity, *each* female part needs to be pollinated. Hope this helps as an addition to the great info in this video!
Actually that’s something you DONT want to do after the second year. Otherwise your killing off as they will die off after 3 years , so you’ll need those runners as you called them to continue the reproduction. They are actually called daughters from the mother plant. The reason for a large strawberry is the variety & FERTILIZER every 7 to 10 days during the fruit bearing season.
I like what you did and that’s a great idea, but the runners can also be soaked in water and make another plant and possibly sell them. And definitely use a scissors. You were really fighting there to pinch that off you can use a small scissors.
hi sanctuary gardens 🤗 this video came across my feed and im so glad it did. im actually watching you on my tv and laptop 🤣😂 i have strawberries and will definitely try this idea the next time i renovate my patch (your video im watching on tv). i'm in zone 10. i'm not sure where you are, but i'm going to watch more of your videos to see what i can learn and what may work in my raised beds. where do you get your straw? tfs
Hi there! I'm so glad you're here! Thanks for stopping by. :) I hope you learn a lot from my videos! More strawberry ones will be coming out in August (a whole series!). I am in zone 8b so I have a shorter growing season than you. I purchased my strawberries from a local nursery that specializes in berries and shrubs. I got mine as bareroot (my recommendation). Hope this helps! See you in a future comment thread! ;)
Thank you!!! I’m so glad I came across this video! I planted 50 bareroot strawberries in March/April and they are all smaller strawberries now that they are producing and tons of runners are coming! Now I know how to get big strawberries!!! Yay!!!
We just moved to this new house last fall. Previously, my strawberries were attacked by slugs, snails and birds before we ever got fruit to eat. Now, we are in a drier climate and will be purchasing my new berries within the month. This nice tip comes in perfect timing with the onset of gardening season. Thank you. 6:47
@@slk363 yes, strawberries should be fertilized after their last crop. Try to avoid fertilizing them in the spring right before they start flowering, otherwise they may put out only leaves and less or no fruit. I plan to do a video on fertilizing strawberries once they’re fruiting (soon!) so watch for that.
No need for rooting hormone. Just put the end of the runner near soil and it will root on its own. I plan to refresh my strawberry plants at the end of this year. I'll share a video on how I do it.
I am switching to the fertilizer listed below. Follow the instructions on it and it should work great. Espoma Organic Berry-Tone Granules Organic Plant Food 4 lb. www.amazon.com/dp/B088WZH9KG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9X6WAMGMN44E5SA3G1DA
Thank you for the feedback. This is the most common criticism I get from this video and I’ve taken it to heart and made adjustments to my more recent videos.
Great video, but I bought 6 Bonnie strawberries plants they are are big green plants but my issue is the berries are small or appear small. Thanks for any advice.
Hmm... Is this their first year? See what next year yields. It may be the variety as well. If you fertilize them, wait until the fall typically as sometimes fertilizers that are high in nitrogen will create beautiful lush plants, but few fruit. Clipping the runners like I show here should help as well. Hope you have better luck!
I only grow Everbearing Strawberries because I prefer them producing throughout the summer. Right now, my bed is new, and I want more plants, so I am leaving the runners. Once I have all the plants I want, I fully intend on pinching those runners. Maybe I'll keep a few and start a few for my friends to have and to freshen my stock every few years.
Glad I stumbled upon this video. AMAZING! I’m getting ready to start my first indoor and outdoor grow so it was great to see what a runner looks like and how to encourage strawberries to grow as large as possible on the mother plant. Thank you.
I am not perfect. But my strawberry plants are getting real good fertilized soil, rain and sunlight and when ever the mini plant grows I cut them all together and plant them. I started having them all from a single plant.
I always watch videos like this in the hopes that I learn something new and sometimes I do. Sadly in this case I didn't. That being said, I find if you've started a new patch of strawberries it's better to let it mat and then selectively snap runners. All the local strawberry growers near me with huge fields of them plant new mature plants every three years. Obviously due to how they need to be successful every year they plant mature crops. So they'll be growing or ordering in three year plants inadvance, so year 1 mature 3 year old plant, year 2 mature 3 year old plant, so and so forth. Obviously letting a patch mat will mean you might not get a huge amount of fruit or that your fruit is smaller. I ripped up all my plants at the end of last year and I put in two new varieties in spring. I was getting fruit relatively slow but it's slowly picked up but I've got quite a few runners going so the fruit is about everbearing size maybe a bit bigger. These days though you can big juicy strawberries later in the year, autumn/fall time, the same with raspberries. So I'm getting the summer ones currently but the autumn ones will pick up as they slow down and eventually stop. That being said though if you've got a nice patch like you guys have then leaving a few runners on older plants and snapping ones of the newer ones to start new plants for swapping out year 4/5 plants is great for maximising.
Thanks for leaving a comment and sharing what's working for you. I have a recent video on how I renovated my everbearing strawberry patch and I go over a few details that I didn't cover in this video. I'm always learning and adapting (always a student of the garden).
What is your method of watering , these soaker hoses doesn't put out evenly amounts of water . I would love ❤️ to share a picture of my June berries I picked this year.
I use overhead watering for now. It works well for me. I haven’t used soaker hoses but I know they do need to run for a long time to get enough water out. I’d love to see a picture of your strawberries!
This is my first year growing strawberries. I happened to see them at a nursery and decided to give them a try. Right now I have them in a planter, but I know I need something bigger and I do have a runner. I will snip it and put it in water until the roots start showing. Thank you for this video. It was very helpful. I have a small strawberry growing. How do I determine when they need to be picked?
I'm so glad you are trying out strawberries! If you want more plants, you can sacrifice a lot of fruit for more runners so you can propagate your patch. Then next year, start pruning off the runners. I know my strawberries are ready to pick when there is no white left on it (only red). :). Hope this helps! Happy gardening!
How do you prep your strawberries for the winter… Do you cut them down to the soil service? I’m in the Northeast and not sure if I leave them alone or cut them down before the winter.
A good question! So... for your june bearing varieties, it is recommended to mow them down to just above the crown as soon as they're done fruiting (mid summer typically). You then can thin the rows out. For everbearing/day neutral varieties, do not mow down. Just cover with mulch (I like straw) and remove it as soon as you're past your harshest frost but before the plants start coming out of dormancy. Hope that helps!
Your plants 🍓and fruit look healthy and vibrant. I'm curious, what area of the country and zone are you in ? Do the two varieties you planted work well in other zones/ areas ? Thank you for the beautiful videos 😊
Thank you! I live in WA state zone 8b. Albion and Hood are the varieties I have and they are perennial in zones 4-8. If you live somewhere outside those zones, you can grow them as an annual. Hope this helps!
@@dcwatashi hi neighbor! I use the old almanac website to find my growing zone by zip code. 😊 Vancouver isn’t too far away so I’m guessing you’re pretty close to my growing zone
@@OurSanctuaryGarden I don’t know why I have a mental block with which zone I’m in maybe I’m in the twilight zone 🤪🙄 and I just ordered the fertilizer you recommended for the blueberries and strawberries and it was the last one on Amazon. But I guess I’m too late to fertilize either my strawberries or my blueberries right now.
@@dcwatashi i would go ahead and fertilize your blueberries and if you have Everbearing strawberries, go ahead and fertilize them too. If you have june bearing strawberries, wait until they are done fruiting then fertilize. 😊
Yes, you can! You can either let them take root in a pot of soil before clipping it from the mother plant or put the runner in water until it grows roots. Hope this helps!
Great video... you've inspired me to start growing strawberries in a big box-like "garden." What kind of soil should I use for box-cultivating them, and, how deep should it be?
Wonderful! Strawberries have a shallow root system so anything 8" or deeper is good (12" is typical for raised beds). I recommend buying a "garden mix" for your soil. You can get them bagged or buy it in bulk from a landscaping business. Strawberries like a slightly acidic soil pH so check your soil before planting them and add elemental sulfer if needed to acidify it (I have a video on testing soil pH if you need help). Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank you. That'll be one of my upcoming summer projects to do this year. Luckily I have a great garden store nearby me that can help provide some of the essential items I'll need to get started.
How do you keep the bunnies away? I plan on starting some in a raised bed that is about 2 1/2 feet tall to help deter bunnies, now as far as any deer, I am not sure if they will be a problem, I may need some fencing type setup for them. Any special soil additives you use? Like a fert that helps with fruiting? Maybe the K in the NPK part on the fert bag? It must be the potassium or K nutrient since nitrogen is for foliage and phosphorus is for roots. I'm guessing that any balanced fert is what you use and I am overthinking this ?
Hi Julie. Good questions. I don’t have a rabbit problem thanks to my fenced backyard and 2 big dogs. But I imagine raising your bed would help though do consider fencing to keep them and deer out. Regarding fertilizers, I will be coming out with a video on that soon but I recommend a nearly balanced fertilizer, one where the NPK numbers are the same or very close to it. Be sure to check back for my fertilizer video coming within the month. 😊 Best of luck to you!
Great question. Other mulch options include pine needles, grass clippings, wood chips/bark, and dead leaves. With all of these, I recommend using ones that you know are free of herbicides and pesticides. If none of those are handy to you, consider buying something like shade cloth that you can lay down and cut holes into to plant your strawberries. Hope this helps.
My experience is the opposite. My junebearing strawberries are twice as big as my everbearing berries. I think it’s because they only fruit once but maybe it’s different for everyone
You can replant those runners also if they are mature enough! Who doesn't want more plants! But if you don't you can toss them. I want my bed to be full then I'll separate each plant for more space. I have half of my bed filled probably 7 plants total right now. I clipped off 3 runners. What about the flowers 🌼 ? I have small berries. I have Ever-bearing plants! We are on our 2nd year of having them. We do buy two new Mother plants each year to add to our beds. Next spring I want to make a new bed for more strawberries when I separate my plants. I don't want them to be one big mess! Once I do this I will be able to manage my both beds daily or every other day to make sure they are healthy and thriving! I would love to know what type of soil n food you feed them?! I would love to have mine big n juicy like yours! Im from Anderson, SC.
A lot of my viewers have asked about planting the runner and yes, you absolutely can plant them! Or let them root and then move them. Regarding the flowers, it is recommended to remove the first year flowers for a couple months. After that, let them flower and fruit. I use an organic garden mix for soil from a local vendor. It’s 2/3 top soil and 1/3 compost. I am preparing a fertilizing video to put out sometime early this summer so watch for that. Honestly, I use a balanced fertilizer where the npk numbers are pretty close. Nothing fancy. Hope this helps!
Hi I’m watching from uk,I’m thinking of doing a bed of strawberry might have to be next year but could you tell me why straw is used please …great video very interesting specially with pinching off the long shoots
Hi there! I’m glad you’re considering growing strawberries! You won’t be disappointed! I use straw as a mulch around my strawberries. This helps with a number of things including water retention (less need for watering), regulating soil temperature, suppressing weeds, adding nutrients to the soil as it decomposes and keeps the strawberries off the dirt. You can use many things as mulch: straw, wood chips, grass clippings, compost, leaves, etc. Hope this helps!
This is a tough one to answer because so many critters love strawberries just as much as we do (bird, slugs, pill bugs, rabbits, etc). I have a slug problem too and I’m trying out a few things to see what helps. At the moment, the thing that is working for me is going out at dusk or early morning and hand picking the slugs and putting them in a bucket of soapy water. It’s gross and I hate it but it’s working to lessen the population (I wear gloves because they’re gross to touch!). I’m going to be doing a video on slug control since this is something I’m actively fighting right now. Some other options are beer traps, crushed egg shells around your plants, copper bands around raised beds, Sluggo (bait and kills them)… I’ll be trying all these and giving a review of them. Hope this helps. Good luck!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thank you for the suggestions. I have been using D.Earth. but my patch is so thick. Like u stated in ur video I let my runners run and have lots of plants and small berries. So I’m trying to decide how to handle this to start from scratch i guess u can say. But without mowing the hole thing down. Feels like suck a waste. But it’s hard to get anything down to ground level with that going on. So I’m going to have to definitely do something. But I look forward to ur video and can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Ah, thank you for mentioning this. I was just yesterday reading up more on strawberries and was thinking that my Albion acted more like day neutral. I believe the nursery listed them as everbearing. So I learned something new. Thanks!
Yes, you can! You can either let them take root in a pot of soil or the bed then clip the attachment to the mother plant and dig them up to move (I find this easiest) or put the runner in water until it grows roots.
I am starting a small raised bed of 2x4 ft . I was going to plant everglow and Seascape plants . Any idea if this small space will produce much fruit ? About how much in quarts ? June strawberry short cake for family of 5 , and fresh picked till sept. Let mrnknow what you think Thank ypu
I ordered ever berries this year and they're planted they look so healthy. I definitely needed to know this tip I'll just pick the runners and start new plants give them away lol
Hi there. Thanks for a great video. I have started growing strawberries from seed that I collected from strawberries that I bought. It has been three years now and I am really getting great strawberries. I was quite shocked when I saw some of my strawberries being about three fingers wide. I never knew what caused them to be so large but I was very excited. I have five questions. How often should strawberries be replanted and what soil mix do you suggest I use, what could I add to the soil to produce sweet strawberries and how often do you use fertilizer if any, and what type? Your assistance will be appreciated.
Hi there! Thanks for the comment and good questions. I’ll answer them in order as best I can. 1) strawberry lifespan is about 3-5 years. I have a new video on renovating an Everbearing strawberry bed. Go check it out on my channel for more info. 2) I suggest using an organic garden mix. I buy from a local company in bulk but you can also get garden mix in bags from nurseries. 3) I am not sure as to what to add to soil to sweeten a strawberry. I’ll do some research and try to include that in my upcoming fertilizing strawberries video (check back in about a month for that video.) 4 and 5) I do fertilize them 2-3x a year. I am trying out this fertilizer: Espoma Organic Berry-tone 4-3-4 Natural & Organic Fertilizer and Plant Food for all Berries. 4 lb. Bag. Use for Planting & Feeding to Promote Bountiful Harvest www.amazon.com/dp/B07KV692TG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y7YPY5NBKFMV9FVNB7FC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Check back for that promised strawberry fertilizing video! I hope this helps in the meantime.
When you can grow them in the garden I should imagine they’ve got more taste to them because what you’re buying the shops now a tasteless they’re not right bad quick there’s no taste of the hard. I wish I could grow my own struts job. Is it in the garden? You’re so lucky to regard to grow them so stop buying strawberries. Subject of Adam from Marks & Spencer is the more bit more tastier than anywhere else but the local shop to go to the rotations and waste the money the charging £3.50 the box of strawberries I’ve never paid that at all now we Gotta start paying that for that I won’t pay for that go without boss of the car is a bit cheaper than that it’s ridiculous people are so greedy you got a crisis on the stick fight bushes that is ridiculous I could people afford them is a little bitch what can afford that £3.50 a box ridiculous thank you. I’ve got the globe able to drop of a cold I’m not a garden so I don’t know what to do to go meow thank you
My boyfriend doen't want to let me pinch the runners of... he wants more plants. We have junebering but hardly any flower made it to berry :( most of them kind of dried of and never started to produce. We will have like 1-2 strawberries per plant. Yesterday I went against him and pinched every runner above one per plant (we just started out and dont have many plants that is why he wants to leave it, also because his mother never takes them of, and she stuedied agriculture at the univerity.)
I'm not sure what variety of strawberries mine are but they tend to be very small and "nubby" looking! Not at all appetizing! Plus, we are fighting the snails that are eating the best berries once they ripen! I've tried putting mulch under them but they are getting destroyed and it's so frustrating. Tips anybody?
I like to plant strawberries in my cinderblocks that I use for my raise bed. They can crawl out the runners and make more strawberries on the ground. The way we used to do. It was when we got too much tangles we would just mow the strawberries on the ground outside the raised bed I also told my husband to mow them down where my mother planted them in the back corner of the yard because they got poison ivy in them so my mother-in-law decided she could pick them and she rubbed her face. She rubbed her lips. she rubbed her eyes. She had poison ivy everywhere don’t do that. Just mow them down. They still got under the ground. They’ll come back next year.
I'm very glad I stumbled across your RUclips channel. I'm just now establishing a rock Garden Wich I'm in the process of turning into a strawberry bed. I'm also planting a few blueberry plants in the center of the Garden to make the most use of the space hopefully the two types of plants aren't to counter productive growing together. You seem to very knowledgeable and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos. Keep up the good work. If your reading this I do have a question. Can you plant ever bearing strawberries with June Bearing in the same bed with out any real issues?
Wow! Thank you SO MUCH for that amazing tip! It's brilliant! I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and pinch or cut off the runners from my strawberries! And each time I do, I will be thanking you. I just can't believe that no one has ever thought of this before now. God Bless!
last spring i grew 4 june bearing strawberries in a planter pot on my deck sometime in june and they produced some good strawberries but they were small. looking at my strawberries now, they still look dead, i thought they are supposed to come back. is there something I did wrong? The strawberries did attract some japanese beetles, aphids, and had some spider webs on it which ruined some strawberries. do you have a method to reducing the pests? I saw you used straw to prevent slugs from getting to your strawberries.
Hi Trey. Good questions. With my more recent research, it seems that June bearing strawberries need to be “renovated” every year, where you let them put out a couple runners to start some daughter plants, then pull out the mother plants after they’re done fruiting. This may fix your maybe dead strawberry plant problem. If they are dead, get some new plants and try the tip above and see how they do. Regarding your pest problem: pests are attracted to weak plants so find ways to build them up with some worm castings, a balanced fertilizer and deep consistent watering. Also, make sure you have some flowers nearby that will attract those beneficial insects that love eating the pests. In the moment though, you can always use neem oil sprayed on the plants (all natural) to help reduce the pest population. These are my recommendations based on what you told me and I hope it’s helpful. I have more videos lined up this year on strawberry care so check back again. Let me know if you have more questions. Wishing you luck!
Thank you! Yes, you can! There are a few options but the one that seems to work the best is place the runner in water. I haven’t personally done this yet but I plan to experiment with it this summer 😊
Hola, I AM from Habana. This is the first time I grow strawberries. I think I AM going to have a beautiful plant and good fruits. You know the climate here is not the best to grow but I Will try. I Will do my best.
Last year I bought 3 plants and didnt know to prune off the runners. I didnt get ANY berries. However this year i took all those new plants i replanted in a more suitable area and ive got sooo many berries coming in.
30 yrs ago I bought 2-6 pks of strawberries before the internet was in every house hold. Via an article in a gardening book I learned to plant the 1 yr old mother plant and to not allow the fruit to set but to snip off the blooms. Use a bright piece of yard or those piled up bread twist ties select the bright yellow or orange ones and place them around the base of each mother. Allow the runners to grow, root and mature. Depending on where you live 6 to 8 weeks before nightly temps are 32* transplant those runner babies on the other end of the strawberry bed(s). The next year allow the mother plants to set fruit but remove all runners as soon as you see them. Then the following years those original mother plants will produce huge berries, just keep removing the runners. Now you have those babies on the other end of the patch. Do the same thing with those the following year. Select one color per years worth of growth so not to mix them up and write on an index card whats what. The 2nd yr plants can then be moved closer to the original mothers and keep those runners snipped. After about 4 to 5 yrs start to replace the oldest mothers as many feel they start producing less fruits as they age. Have fun and gt down and dirty in the garden...!
Hi! This is very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing. That’s quite a system. Has it worked well for you? Do you have raised beds? I did a follow up video on renovating a strawberry bed and I had to do the process all at once because I needed to refill my raised bed with more soil. I like this process you have here as it makes it so you don’t have to renovate all the plants all at once.
Thank you 😊
Thank you for your advice! Using the bread ties are a smart idea! Thank you 4 this. It gives me a great start on my new bed next season!
I'll be giving this a try ! Thanks for sharing.
Try an individual pot, i made an experiment by planting half of my plant directly to the ground and some on a pot. They grow better in an individual pot. And each of the plant grow differently. Like it evolve themselves i was shocked to find one of my strawberry goes red(leaf). The pot one grow more fruit and free disease. The mixed one in the ground tend to be sharing disease. It leaf growth isnt good at all, also try hanging pot
I tried cutting my runners off and rooting them with hormone and it works, so you let the mother focus on berries and at the same time you can make more plants.
Awesome! That’s a question I get a lot if the runner can be used to make a new plant after it’s been clipped so I’m glad to hear you’ve had success with it.
"Runners" are daughters. Keep the mother and get rid of the daughters. Replace the mother with new daughters every 3 -4 years.
Exactly! Thanks for adding your input!
Can't you use the daughters to start another branch on the family tree? 😊 I mean if you're getting rid of them might as well make use of them. Make more strawberries 😁
@@luvmy5515 would depend on available room/space, I'd think...
Can you plant the runners?
@@terrig2467 yes. If you have the room. In time you will get overcrowding. I think taking the runners and planting them next to a row of mother's would work and then in 3 years remove the mother's when the daughters are producing well. The strawberries will be small if you don't thin them out at some point. The mother last 3-4 years.
For those reading this and if she doesn't mention this in the video, it is vitally important to use runners to get new plants but restrict this effort to one or two plants as needed. A strawberry plant will produce for 3-5 years and then its production falls off.
Yes, thank you for bringing this up. In fact, we have plans to renovate on our strawberry beds this year with the runners since the production had declined slightly. They are about 4 years old.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden so it’s not needed the first 3 years? I planted strawberries from seed a year ago, right now they started flowering , the plants are big but not as big as yours so I wasn’t sure if I should cut flowers so that the plants can still grow
My plants started running a while ago so I have new patches that flower pretty quickly , so do I just cut off all the runners now or do I just wait until second year since 1st year plants don’t produce good fruit anyway? (Especially not in my weather )
@@vastya.3255 hi there! Regarding your questions, for the first few months after planting a strawberry plant, remove the blossoms to give the plant energy to focus on a good root system. It’s recommended to remove all flowers for the first year on June bearing, and to remove flowers until July for Everbearing. I would also start removing runners from your Everbearing plants unless you need/want more plants. For June bearing, I would let them produce some runners but don’t let them go crazy. You’re right that second year plants produce more and better fruit. I have a follow up video on my channel I posted recently on how to renovate an Everbearing strawberry bed. You might find it helpful as I clear a few things up. 😊 hope this answers your questions.
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@Sanctuary Gardens hello so remove all runners for the first 3 yrs
We are in Bellingham Wa and are starting a garden 🪴 this year. Thanks for the tips :)
Hi neighbor! 😊 I wish you all the best in your new gardening journey. I hope you find some helpful info here for gardening in the PNW. Cheers!
I push the end into a 3 in pot for 5 days and let it send a root down before I clip it of the mother.
I've found that any longer than 5 days and you wont get as big of berries.
This is the way I ve found to get the best of both. I have allstars and quinault and this has worked for both for me
Very nice~ How long have those strawberry plants been in the garden beds? To save the clipped runners, put them in water, with the torn off end in the water and keep the growing tip out of the water but still resting on the water, and they will form roots.
Hi! These plants have been in the raised beds for about 2 years. In 1-2 more years, I plan to refresh the bed by doing exactly as you described! :) Cheers!
How do you rest the growing tip on the water?
Just got a Seascape variety plant (no doubt grown from a runner, lol) and was looking for tips on what to do with it. I will keep this tip and remember it when my plant is much bigger, because I want LOTS of strawberries and strawberry plants in the future. Been dreaming of that hanging, indoor strawberry cornucopia... :)
Thank you!
Actually water tends to rot them quickly. Letting them root directly into the ground either from the container of planting out the container gives it the best chance. There are ways to use water but they are still more advanced than me
Thank you answered my question 😊
Thanks for sharing your tip 😊
I planted a dozen Quinalts in March. They became 100 plants, but I saw no fruit until this month(November)...three small strawberries. Wish I had known your trick. There’s always next year. 🙂 Thank you.
At least you have a bunch of plants now! How are the new plants doing? Have they started producing?
A big plus is having many plants, with this trick you can now get a huge yield
reduce nitrogen
My goodness, you have the most beautiful strawberry plants and strawberries. Mine are pitiful compared to yours. What zone are you in? How much and what kind of fertilizer do you use? How do you keep insects, ants, snails, slugs, etc off of your plants? Thank you!!
Thank you! We are in zone 8b and I am trying out a new fertilizer by Espoma (www.amazon.com/Espoma-Berry-Tone-Natural-Organic-Fertilizer/dp/B08DYDS1GZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CCX81N75BHQE&dchild=1&keywords=espoma+berry+tone&qid=1629607080&sprefix=espoma+berry%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-2). I follow the instructions on the bag for doses and I usually do it twice a year (spring and fall). Regarding insects... I pick my battles! Haha! I have had a big slug problem this year so I'm literally going outside and picking them up and throwing them over the fence. It works! My biggest issue is sow bugs and I have yet to try the solution of putting half a melon upside down in the area to attract them then relocate them to my compost pile. I hear it works well. But really, we just suffer some losses. It hasn't been so bad that I've done anything about it really. Hope this helps!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Hi, nice informative video. I got 10 plants at the farmers market that are Ozark Beauties, never grown them before. So excited to follow you and check back when I’m not sure about those runners. Can I just give those to a friend so she can grow berries?
“Nothing beats home grown berries” I agree 100%!
They truly are the best! 👌🏼
easy and so effective !!! thank you
Thank you for the tip! What about your soil? What is the best? Thanks!
I recommend getting a good quality garden mix from a local landscape company if you’re doing raised beds. Strawberries like slightly acidic soil (5.5-6.5) so test your soil to see where it lands then add elemental sulfur to acidify it if needed. I have a video on acidifying soil if you need further help
Ty!
This is very interesting. I grow strawberries commercially (we have about 10 million plants this year) and most of the advice I see on the youtubes is utterly ludicrous. This however, is not. We only keep our plants for one season, and we go to great lengths to cut the runners off early in the year so the crowns grow bigger and the plant sets more, larger fruit. There may or may not be an obscene amount of Calcium and Potassium Nitrate and Magnesium Sulphate involved.
Towards the end of the season though, we start letting runners take root and cut them from the mother plant. We put them in trays and that becomes some of next year's plants.
This is very interesting to read! I know most commercial growers treat strawberries as annuals but I wasn’t aware they removed runners. Good to know. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tips
Why dont ye get 3-5 years out of a planting of strawberries? Why change them every year? Isnt that a lot of work?
@@sandrashane677 Do you really want to know the answer?
@Brad Carby yes please!
Great tip. Now I know why I had so many new plants and small, not so sweet berries.
Thank you.
Strawberries like acidic soil for sweeter fruit
How do you manage growing strawberries with no bug bites? Those pill bugs are ruining my strawberries, also the birds eat them when they still green. So frustrated!!!
I would love to say my strawberries never have bug damage, but that would be a lie. I have managed birds with netting that I cover the beds with. Regarding pill bugs, I had an infestation of them this year so many of my berries had some damage. Pill bugs love dark and damp environments so I laid down a layer of straw so the strawberries would be off the damp soil. I also watered in the morning so everything had a chance to dry out through the day. It seems to help but a level of damage should always be expected. 'Tis the life a gardener. We have to share our garden with the bugs. ;) Happy gardening!
First year growing strawberries here! Have little day neutral strawberries that are just starting to form! I pinched the buds until beginning of this month and they are flowering like crazy!
Wonderful! I hope they produce an abundance for you! :)
Awesome!!! I literally just planted 14 everbearing fingers crossed !!
My question is this , could those suckers ( runners) be planted elsewhere to produce a new plant separate from the mother plant?
Absolutely! You can start a whole new strawberry bed with runners from the mother plants you originally planted. You can do it a number of ways. Wait until the runners show roots before clipping and planting, wait until they actually root themselves into the soil before transplanting, or (I've been told this works but haven't tried it myself) I understand you can place the end that will root into water until it starts rooting then plant it. Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thank you so much and I’m so sorry I also meant to say how beautiful your gardens are !!!😊😊😊
@@leesa9615 Thank you!
Yes indeed. I started last summer with 6 Quinault everbearing plants. By nestling the runner down slightly into/onto moist soil and pinning the runner down with an upside down U shaped coated heavy wire, the runners reliably rooted. The runners would even then continue to creep, grow and extend over the ground, allowing a single runner to root and produce a few new plants. In early fall i then snipped each runner stem and dug up each new young daughter plant and planted each spread out so each had a foot between other plants. I went from 6 plants to 50 and even started clipping the runners off, figuring there was not much time for any more to root and grow big enough roots to survive the winter in zone 5 with some pine needles mulched over them for the winter.
If you don’t ensure good soil contact and keep it moist at the "plant root nodes" on the runner stem, the runner may just dry up and "burn off" like a dud fuse. With some attention and care the rooting success rate can be very near 100%.
One plant will send out multiple runners and each runner can produce multiple new daughter plants.
@@ttb1513 Thanks for all the great info! I plan to do just that this fall as my beds are due for a refreshing. :)
For anyone reading when removing the runners it actually works way easier to just push down instead of pinching off. The whole section would get removed with ease
You’re strawberries are huge & they look so AH-MAZING!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you!
Excellent video, thank you! Now I'm all set to grow my strawberries.😋❤️
Thank you so much for this video! Just an additional tip for those having trouble getting bigger berries .. it may be to do with pollination. If - like me - you live in 'the 'burbs' rather than out in the country, you may be noticing a decline in pollinator populations. Try planting flowering, pollinator attracting plants such as marigolds around/within your strawberry patches (mine are in hanging pots). If the time to do this has passed, then get yourself a soft-bristled paint-brush and hand pollinate your flowers, from the outside in towards the centre of the flower. If you have the time to do this daily (for a few pots of plants like I have), then great! Otherwise, you can get away with doing this every 3-4 days. Strawberry flowers are self-pollinating (meaning even just one flower can fertilize itself to produce a fruit as it has both male and female flower parts). However, some help from you may be needed. Brush from the outside (male parts) of the flower to the inside (female part*s*). For the size of the fruit to be maximized to its capacity, *each* female part needs to be pollinated. Hope this helps as an addition to the great info in this video!
Thank you for sharing this great tip!!
strawberry plants can self-pollinate
Salvia is a great plant to have near your berries. Bees love “Salvia”
Pollination is more important than removing runners!!
Actually that’s something you DONT want to do after the second year. Otherwise your killing off as they will die off after 3 years , so you’ll need those runners as you called them to continue the reproduction. They are actually called daughters from the mother plant. The reason for a large strawberry is the variety & FERTILIZER every 7 to 10 days during the fruit bearing season.
What type of fertilizer do I need to use?
I like what you did and that’s a great idea, but the runners can also be soaked in water and make another plant and possibly sell them. And definitely use a scissors. You were really fighting there to pinch that off you can use a small scissors.
hi sanctuary gardens 🤗
this video came across my feed and im so glad it did.
im actually watching you on my tv and laptop 🤣😂 i have strawberries and will definitely try this idea the next time i renovate my patch (your video im watching on tv).
i'm in zone 10. i'm not sure where you are, but i'm going to watch more of your videos to see what i can learn and what may work in my raised beds.
where do you get your straw? tfs
Hi there! I'm so glad you're here! Thanks for stopping by. :) I hope you learn a lot from my videos! More strawberry ones will be coming out in August (a whole series!). I am in zone 8b so I have a shorter growing season than you. I purchased my strawberries from a local nursery that specializes in berries and shrubs. I got mine as bareroot (my recommendation). Hope this helps! See you in a future comment thread! ;)
Well your strawberries are way bigger than mine
Noooooo don't cut em off just yet. Let them root replant them then cut off the long runner once planted.
Thank you!!! I’m so glad I came across this video! I planted 50 bareroot strawberries in March/April and they are all smaller strawberries now that they are producing and tons of runners are coming! Now I know how to get big strawberries!!! Yay!!!
Glad to hear it! Hope this helps! Happy gardening
So did it work
TLDW: Prune off runners from the strawberry plant.
those would be gone the first day ripe in my yard
We just moved to this new house last fall. Previously, my strawberries were attacked by slugs, snails and birds before we ever got fruit to eat. Now, we are in a drier climate and will be purchasing my new berries within the month. This nice tip comes in perfect timing with the onset of gardening season. Thank you. 6:47
How are they ?
Thank you! This is my first year gardening so I’m not expecting fruit until next year, but I’ll make sure to remember to do this!
I wish you all the best! 😊
Do I need to fertilize strawberry plants other than when first planted? If so with what?
@@slk363 yes, strawberries should be fertilized after their last crop. Try to avoid fertilizing them in the spring right before they start flowering, otherwise they may put out only leaves and less or no fruit. I plan to do a video on fertilizing strawberries once they’re fruiting (soon!) so watch for that.
Can you put the end of the runner in rooting hormone and then grow it on? Cheers
No need for rooting hormone. Just put the end of the runner near soil and it will root on its own. I plan to refresh my strawberry plants at the end of this year. I'll share a video on how I do it.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thanks, look forward to the video. Cheers
Thanks for sharing such a great tip👏🏽keep up the good work fellow gardener 👍🏽
Thank you! Happy gardening!
Hey, what fertilizer do you use when the plant is that big? Thanks
I am switching to the fertilizer listed below. Follow the instructions on it and it should work great. Espoma Organic Berry-Tone Granules Organic Plant Food 4 lb. www.amazon.com/dp/B088WZH9KG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9X6WAMGMN44E5SA3G1DA
This might sound weird. But you look like you're supposed to have a British accent 😂
Haha! This is the funniest comment I’ve received.
You explained that so well. Thank you.
You’re welcome! Happy gardening!
The tip could have been done in a 60 second video. Snip off the runners. No need to spend almost ten minutes watching.
Thank you for the feedback. This is the most common criticism I get from this video and I’ve taken it to heart and made adjustments to my more recent videos.
Great video, but I bought 6 Bonnie strawberries plants they are are big green plants but my issue is the berries are small or appear small. Thanks for any advice.
Hmm... Is this their first year? See what next year yields. It may be the variety as well. If you fertilize them, wait until the fall typically as sometimes fertilizers that are high in nitrogen will create beautiful lush plants, but few fruit. Clipping the runners like I show here should help as well. Hope you have better luck!
Not suppose to pick your strawberries the first year. Pick off the blooms and keep your runners from taking off and the following year....WOW.
I only grow Everbearing Strawberries because I prefer them producing throughout the summer. Right now, my bed is new, and I want more plants, so I am leaving the runners. Once I have all the plants I want, I fully intend on pinching those runners. Maybe I'll keep a few and start a few for my friends to have and to freshen my stock every few years.
You betcha! Sounds like you know what you're doing! I prefer everbearing myself... I may be getting rid of my June bearing this year. Happy gardening!
Can the shoots be placed in water til in roots ( like a cutting) then planted in a separate container?
Yes it can! I haven't done it myself but I know of others who have. Let me know if you try it and it works :)
Hey I was wondering if you could replant the runner and have another plant grow from it?
Yes. I have a whole video on what to do with runners besides clip them off!
Glad I stumbled upon this video. AMAZING! I’m getting ready to start my first indoor and outdoor grow so it was great to see what a runner looks like and how to encourage strawberries to grow as large as possible on the mother plant. Thank you.
I’m glad it was helpful! Thanks for following along! More great videos coming! I have a whole playlist on strawberries!
I think a pair of small pruners would be best to use, to avoid damaging the plant...thank you!!
I agree. 😉
Oh my gosh! Your berries look AMAZING and big. I know the flavor is off the chart. Enjoy!!
Thank you! They are scrumptious! 🍓😉
Thank you! I've always been great at growing strawberry plants but lacking on the actual strawberries lol
You’re welcome and I hope you have better luck! 😊
I am not perfect. But my strawberry plants are getting real good fertilized soil, rain and sunlight and when ever the mini plant grows I cut them all together and plant them. I started having them all from a single plant.
is there any way to get the specific kind of strawberry that is? not just everbearing, but the name?
Yes, it’s called Albion. I’ve included the names in the description in case you need to reference it again.
What kind of strawberry plants are those those are huge leaves
They are called Albion Everbearing variety. :)
Wow. Nice plants. What variety are these? thanks
This variety is called Albion and is our favorite. 😊
I always watch videos like this in the hopes that I learn something new and sometimes I do. Sadly in this case I didn't. That being said, I find if you've started a new patch of strawberries it's better to let it mat and then selectively snap runners. All the local strawberry growers near me with huge fields of them plant new mature plants every three years. Obviously due to how they need to be successful every year they plant mature crops. So they'll be growing or ordering in three year plants inadvance, so year 1 mature 3 year old plant, year 2 mature 3 year old plant, so and so forth. Obviously letting a patch mat will mean you might not get a huge amount of fruit or that your fruit is smaller. I ripped up all my plants at the end of last year and I put in two new varieties in spring. I was getting fruit relatively slow but it's slowly picked up but I've got quite a few runners going so the fruit is about everbearing size maybe a bit bigger. These days though you can big juicy strawberries later in the year, autumn/fall time, the same with raspberries. So I'm getting the summer ones currently but the autumn ones will pick up as they slow down and eventually stop. That being said though if you've got a nice patch like you guys have then leaving a few runners on older plants and snapping ones of the newer ones to start new plants for swapping out year 4/5 plants is great for maximising.
Thanks for leaving a comment and sharing what's working for you. I have a recent video on how I renovated my everbearing strawberry patch and I go over a few details that I didn't cover in this video. I'm always learning and adapting (always a student of the garden).
What is your method of watering , these soaker hoses doesn't put out evenly amounts of water . I would love ❤️ to share a picture of my June berries I picked this year.
I use overhead watering for now. It works well for me. I haven’t used soaker hoses but I know they do need to run for a long time to get enough water out. I’d love to see a picture of your strawberries!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden how can I send you pictures 📸
If you want big strawberries, purchase a large breed of strawberry, like Maxim strawberries.
This is my first year growing strawberries. I happened to see them at a nursery and decided to give them a try. Right now I have them in a planter, but I know I need something bigger and I do have a runner. I will snip it and put it in water until the roots start showing. Thank you for this video. It was very helpful. I have a small strawberry growing. How do I determine when they need to be picked?
I'm so glad you are trying out strawberries! If you want more plants, you can sacrifice a lot of fruit for more runners so you can propagate your patch. Then next year, start pruning off the runners. I know my strawberries are ready to pick when there is no white left on it (only red). :). Hope this helps! Happy gardening!
Great tip. I prune mine and I replant the stem.
First time on your channel. Great video! Very clear explanation. I’ll be pinching off the runners we get this season. Thanks!
Welcome! Glad you found it helpful! 😊
Had to ff to the relevant part... time is valuable.
How do you prep your strawberries for the winter… Do you cut them down to the soil service? I’m in the Northeast and not sure if I leave them alone or cut them down before the winter.
A good question! So... for your june bearing varieties, it is recommended to mow them down to just above the crown as soon as they're done fruiting (mid summer typically). You then can thin the rows out. For everbearing/day neutral varieties, do not mow down. Just cover with mulch (I like straw) and remove it as soon as you're past your harshest frost but before the plants start coming out of dormancy. Hope that helps!
Your plants 🍓and fruit look healthy and vibrant. I'm curious, what area of the country and zone are you in ? Do the two varieties you planted work well in other zones/ areas ? Thank you for the beautiful videos 😊
Thank you! I live in WA state zone 8b. Albion and Hood are the varieties I have and they are perennial in zones 4-8. If you live somewhere outside those zones, you can grow them as an annual. Hope this helps!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Oh hey! I also live in Washington state. I think I am zone 8A I keep getting confused I don’t know why. I’m in Vancouver.
@@dcwatashi hi neighbor! I use the old almanac website to find my growing zone by zip code. 😊 Vancouver isn’t too far away so I’m guessing you’re pretty close to my growing zone
@@OurSanctuaryGarden I don’t know why I have a mental block with which zone I’m in maybe I’m in the twilight zone 🤪🙄 and I just ordered the fertilizer you recommended for the blueberries and strawberries and it was the last one on Amazon. But I guess I’m too late to fertilize either my strawberries or my blueberries right now.
@@dcwatashi i would go ahead and fertilize your blueberries and if you have Everbearing strawberries, go ahead and fertilize them too. If you have june bearing strawberries, wait until they are done fruiting then fertilize. 😊
Can you replant the runners in another pot?
Yes, you can! You can either let them take root in a pot of soil before clipping it from the mother plant or put the runner in water until it grows roots. Hope this helps!
Very helpful video! Thank u ❤️
Great video... you've inspired me to start growing strawberries in a big box-like "garden." What kind of soil should I use for box-cultivating them, and, how deep should it be?
Wonderful! Strawberries have a shallow root system so anything 8" or deeper is good (12" is typical for raised beds). I recommend buying a "garden mix" for your soil. You can get them bagged or buy it in bulk from a landscaping business. Strawberries like a slightly acidic soil pH so check your soil before planting them and add elemental sulfer if needed to acidify it (I have a video on testing soil pH if you need help). Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank you. That'll be one of my upcoming summer projects to do this year. Luckily I have a great garden store nearby me that can help provide some of the essential items I'll need to get started.
How do you keep the bunnies away? I plan on starting some in a raised bed that is about 2 1/2 feet tall to help deter bunnies, now as far as any deer, I am not sure if they will be a problem, I may need some fencing type setup for them. Any special soil additives you use? Like a fert that helps with fruiting?
Maybe the K in the NPK part on the fert bag? It must be the potassium or K nutrient since nitrogen is for foliage and phosphorus is for roots. I'm guessing that any balanced fert is what you use and I am overthinking this ?
Hi Julie. Good questions. I don’t have a rabbit problem thanks to my fenced backyard and 2 big dogs. But I imagine raising your bed would help though do consider fencing to keep them and deer out.
Regarding fertilizers, I will be coming out with a video on that soon but I recommend a nearly balanced fertilizer, one where the NPK numbers are the same or very close to it. Be sure to check back for my fertilizer video coming within the month. 😊 Best of luck to you!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Okay, thanks 😄
Thank you this is some helpful advice. Your garden lookds beautiful
Also my fruits are laying on the ground but I have no hay so how to I keep them off the ground so that they don’t mold when it rains please
Great question. Other mulch options include pine needles, grass clippings, wood chips/bark, and dead leaves. With all of these, I recommend using ones that you know are free of herbicides and pesticides. If none of those are handy to you, consider buying something like shade cloth that you can lay down and cut holes into to plant your strawberries. Hope this helps.
My experience is the opposite. My junebearing strawberries are twice as big as my everbearing berries. I think it’s because they only fruit once but maybe it’s different for everyone
So nice 😍 home grown is so satisfying 🤩😍
Yes, they are so much better!
You can replant those runners also if they are mature enough! Who doesn't want more plants! But if you don't you can toss them. I want my bed to be full then I'll separate each plant for more space. I have half of my bed filled probably 7 plants total right now. I clipped off 3 runners. What about the flowers 🌼 ? I have small berries. I have Ever-bearing plants! We are on our 2nd year of having them. We do buy two new Mother plants each year to add to our beds. Next spring I want to make a new bed for more strawberries when I separate my plants. I don't want them to be one big mess! Once I do this I will be able to manage my both beds daily or every other day to make sure they are healthy and thriving! I would love to know what type of soil n food you feed them?! I would love to have mine big n juicy like yours! Im from Anderson, SC.
A lot of my viewers have asked about planting the runner and yes, you absolutely can plant them! Or let them root and then move them. Regarding the flowers, it is recommended to remove the first year flowers for a couple months. After that, let them flower and fruit. I use an organic garden mix for soil from a local vendor. It’s 2/3 top soil and 1/3 compost. I am preparing a fertilizing video to put out sometime early this summer so watch for that. Honestly, I use a balanced fertilizer where the npk numbers are pretty close. Nothing fancy. Hope this helps!
Hi I’m watching from uk,I’m thinking of doing a bed of strawberry might have to be next year but could you tell me why straw is used please …great video very interesting specially with pinching off the long shoots
Hi there! I’m glad you’re considering growing strawberries! You won’t be disappointed! I use straw as a mulch around my strawberries. This helps with a number of things including water retention (less need for watering), regulating soil temperature, suppressing weeds, adding nutrients to the soil as it decomposes and keeps the strawberries off the dirt. You can use many things as mulch: straw, wood chips, grass clippings, compost, leaves, etc. Hope this helps!
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Aw that’s awesome!! 🤩
How do h keep critters out of there? I have slugs in my strawberries ahhhhh I need help
This is a tough one to answer because so many critters love strawberries just as much as we do (bird, slugs, pill bugs, rabbits, etc). I have a slug problem too and I’m trying out a few things to see what helps. At the moment, the thing that is working for me is going out at dusk or early morning and hand picking the slugs and putting them in a bucket of soapy water. It’s gross and I hate it but it’s working to lessen the population (I wear gloves because they’re gross to touch!). I’m going to be doing a video on slug control since this is something I’m actively fighting right now. Some other options are beer traps, crushed egg shells around your plants, copper bands around raised beds, Sluggo (bait and kills them)… I’ll be trying all these and giving a review of them. Hope this helps. Good luck!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden thank you for the suggestions. I have been using D.Earth. but my patch is so thick. Like u stated in ur video I let my runners run and have lots of plants and small berries. So I’m trying to decide how to handle this to start from scratch i guess u can say. But without mowing the hole thing down. Feels like suck a waste. But it’s hard to get anything down to ground level with that going on. So I’m going to have to definitely do something. But I look forward to ur video and can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Albion is not an ever bearing. It is a day neutral strawberry
Ah, thank you for mentioning this. I was just yesterday reading up more on strawberries and was thinking that my Albion acted more like day neutral. I believe the nursery listed them as everbearing. So I learned something new. Thanks!
My older kiddo asked if you would share some with us, ha ha! Beautiful berries!! Need to go out and pluck my runners now.
I'd gladly share my bounty! ;)
Can you plant runners and start another bed of strawberries?
Yes, you can! You can either let them take root in a pot of soil or the bed then clip the attachment to the mother plant and dig them up to move (I find this easiest) or put the runner in water until it grows roots.
Do those runners turn into mother plants the next year?
Yes, they do.
Tip: choose a cultivar that produces large berries
I am starting a small raised bed of 2x4 ft . I was going to plant everglow and Seascape plants .
Any idea if this small space will produce much fruit ?
About how much in quarts ?
June strawberry short cake for family of 5 , and fresh picked till sept.
Let mrnknow what you think
Thank ypu
I ordered ever berries this year and they're planted they look so healthy. I definitely needed to know this tip I'll just pick the runners and start new plants give them away lol
Glad this was helpful! I love sharing the runner baby plants with others!
Hi there. Thanks for a great video. I have started growing strawberries from seed that I collected from strawberries that I bought. It has been three years now and I am really getting great strawberries. I was quite shocked when I saw some of my strawberries being about three fingers wide. I never knew what caused them to be so large but I was very excited. I have five questions. How often should strawberries be replanted and what soil mix do you suggest I use, what could I add to the soil to produce sweet strawberries and how often do you use fertilizer if any, and what type? Your assistance will be appreciated.
Hi there! Thanks for the comment and good questions. I’ll answer them in order as best I can.
1) strawberry lifespan is about 3-5 years. I have a new video on renovating an Everbearing strawberry bed. Go check it out on my channel for more info.
2) I suggest using an organic garden mix. I buy from a local company in bulk but you can also get garden mix in bags from nurseries.
3) I am not sure as to what to add to soil to sweeten a strawberry. I’ll do some research and try to include that in my upcoming fertilizing strawberries video (check back in about a month for that video.)
4 and 5) I do fertilize them 2-3x a year. I am trying out this fertilizer: Espoma Organic Berry-tone 4-3-4 Natural & Organic Fertilizer and Plant Food for all Berries. 4 lb. Bag. Use for Planting & Feeding to Promote Bountiful Harvest www.amazon.com/dp/B07KV692TG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y7YPY5NBKFMV9FVNB7FC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Check back for that promised strawberry fertilizing video! I hope this helps in the meantime.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thanks for the information. It is appreciated.
When you can grow them in the garden I should imagine they’ve got more taste to them because what you’re buying the shops now a tasteless they’re not right bad quick there’s no taste of the hard. I wish I could grow my own struts job. Is it in the garden? You’re so lucky to regard to grow them so stop buying strawberries. Subject of Adam from Marks & Spencer is the more bit more tastier than anywhere else but the local shop to go to the rotations and waste the money the charging £3.50 the box of strawberries I’ve never paid that at all now we Gotta start paying that for that I won’t pay for that go without boss of the car is a bit cheaper than that it’s ridiculous people are so greedy you got a crisis on the stick fight bushes that is ridiculous I could people afford them is a little bitch what can afford that £3.50 a box ridiculous thank you. I’ve got the globe able to drop of a cold I’m not a garden so I don’t know what to do to go meow thank you
My boyfriend doen't want to let me pinch the runners of... he wants more plants. We have junebering but hardly any flower made it to berry :( most of them kind of dried of and never started to produce. We will have like 1-2 strawberries per plant. Yesterday I went against him and pinched every runner above one per plant (we just started out and dont have many plants that is why he wants to leave it, also because his mother never takes them of, and she stuedied agriculture at the univerity.)
I'm not sure what variety of strawberries mine are but they tend to be very small and "nubby" looking! Not at all appetizing! Plus, we are fighting the snails that are eating the best berries once they ripen! I've tried putting mulch under them but they are getting destroyed and it's so frustrating. Tips anybody?
Thanks for making the video lady 👍🏽👍🏽
I like to plant strawberries in my cinderblocks that I use for my raise bed. They can crawl out the runners and make more strawberries on the ground. The way we used to do. It was when we got too much tangles we would just mow the strawberries on the ground outside the raised bed I also told my husband to mow them down where my mother planted them in the back corner of the yard because they got poison ivy in them so my mother-in-law decided she could pick them and she rubbed her face. She rubbed her lips. she rubbed her eyes. She had poison ivy everywhere don’t do that. Just mow them down. They still got under the ground. They’ll come back next year.
I'm very glad I stumbled across your RUclips channel. I'm just now establishing a rock Garden Wich I'm in the process of turning into a strawberry bed. I'm also planting a few blueberry plants in the center of the Garden to make the most use of the space hopefully the two types of plants aren't to counter productive growing together. You seem to very knowledgeable and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos. Keep up the good work. If your reading this I do have a question. Can you plant ever bearing strawberries with June Bearing in the same bed with out any real issues?
Hi there! I’m glad this was helpful! Yes, you can grow both types of strawberries in the same bed. Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden Thank You
Wow! Thank you SO MUCH for that amazing tip! It's brilliant! I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and pinch or cut off the runners from my strawberries! And each time I do, I will be thanking you. I just can't believe that no one has ever thought of this before now. God Bless!
You’re most welcome!
last spring i grew 4 june bearing strawberries in a planter pot on my deck sometime in june and they produced some good strawberries but they were small. looking at my strawberries now, they still look dead, i thought they are supposed to come back. is there something I did wrong? The strawberries did attract some japanese beetles, aphids, and had some spider webs on it which ruined some strawberries. do you have a method to reducing the pests? I saw you used straw to prevent slugs from getting to your strawberries.
Hi Trey. Good questions. With my more recent research, it seems that June bearing strawberries need to be “renovated” every year, where you let them put out a couple runners to start some daughter plants, then pull out the mother plants after they’re done fruiting. This may fix your maybe dead strawberry plant problem. If they are dead, get some new plants and try the tip above and see how they do. Regarding your pest problem: pests are attracted to weak plants so find ways to build them up with some worm castings, a balanced fertilizer and deep consistent watering. Also, make sure you have some flowers nearby that will attract those beneficial insects that love eating the pests. In the moment though, you can always use neem oil sprayed on the plants (all natural) to help reduce the pest population. These are my recommendations based on what you told me and I hope it’s helpful. I have more videos lined up this year on strawberry care so check back again. Let me know if you have more questions. Wishing you luck!
Can you replant the runner to produce a new plant? Your strawberries look delicious and juicy.
Thank you! Yes, you can! There are a few options but the one that seems to work the best is place the runner in water. I haven’t personally done this yet but I plan to experiment with it this summer 😊
Hola, I AM from Habana. This is the first time I grow strawberries. I think I AM going to have a beautiful plant and good fruits. You know the climate here is not the best to grow but I Will try. I Will do my best.
I wish you the best! :)
Thanks For This! More please! Also
Hello what is the name of the sort of your everbering strawberries?
They are called Albion and they are fantastic! Highly recommend. I bought them from a local nursery
Pretty cool!😊
May I know the variety you are planting?
This variety is called Albion and is an everbearing variety. I got it from a local small nursery. :)
Last year I bought 3 plants and didnt know to prune off the runners. I didnt get ANY berries. However this year i took all those new plants i replanted in a more suitable area and ive got sooo many berries coming in.
That’s wonderful! Hopefully this tip helps too. 😊 happy gardening!
Hi friend. I got strawberries un march and they are growing again. I told you I was going to do my best and I did It.
Yay!! That’s great! Congratulations!
Can something with those runners plants....be done so they will grow more plants once cut from the mother plant?
i will
ok
Around here, the Mt. Hood strain of strawberries are smaller, but boy are they delicious.
Good to know! We weren’t happy with our Hood strawberries but maybe I’ll give them another chance 😊