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Drgreenflinger

I’ve been putting my runners in a compost filled yoghurt pots for about a months then snipping away from the mother plant I’ve quadrupled my plants from this year.. next year should be bumper year! Works for me 👍

Gwendolyn Vaughn

Love your channel, you got me wanting 7 beds. I'm a beginner in the garden and all your tips are welcomed. Just got though preparing my beds, cant wait to get started.

J. Niles

I place the runners in a plastic planting pot with potting soil for a week or so before cutting the runner stem. This allows the roots to develop further, I have experience almost a 100% growth rate by doing it this way.

Valerie Howden

Lots of methods for sure. I catch the runners thru the season in pots with soil, cut off from the mother plant when roots are good, and then plant the potted runner a bit later in a better spot in the patch. Good survival if properly watered. My patch started out 3 years ago and it produced until the frost this year. Best fruit ever.

Doreen Cloutier

That is what I am doing also
Most of my strawberries are June bearing and are done. So I'm potting them in pot, Until they establish roots and transferring them to another bed.

TheMichelleMaker

That's exactly what I do! I love that there are so many successful methods.

Dr. Luci Kidd

Hi! I am a new gardener from Boulder, Co and just discovered your channel-thank you so much! I have learned so much from the little I have watched thus far. Question: Can I clip the runner from the mother plant if there is a significant root system established in that runner AND plant it near the mother plant/same bed?

darcy roberts

you can, but remember strawberry plants only produce so long. It will be easier to keep track of when it is time to retire your older beds if you don't mix them. Just start a new bed with your runners.

Search4TruthReality

Worth considering: Strawberry plants produce for only three to four years - production decreases over time. Some gardeners start over after three years. I'm no expert -- just gleaning information from other videos.

Tiger and Thor

Strawberries are very versatile, there are many ways to help them reproduce, i do find its best to leave runners alone until roots are up to 1cm long. Then place in a pot whilst connected to mother plant, let the runner root itself into the pot and only then chop from the mother plant

Thomas

I let my runners root in small pots last summer until they were well established and then planted them in early fall in a new bed. We had mild fall weather. They grew in their new spots undisturbed for 2+ months before the frost and snow came. Mulched them with pine needles. Most survived. I will see if they fruit this year.

Rocky Road Adventures

This was really helpful, I jumped pots with my runners and now have to move the pots. Feeling more confident in cutting “the umbilical cord” Thanks 👍

Lisa Bethune Jones

This is my first year growing strawberries, and I have a dilemma. I got all excited and ordered a bunch of plants, but I didn’t realize that they are plants that come back every year. My garden is growing at my office (my staff and I started it last year, and now it’s taken up the entire back parking lot! Lol). So, here’s my issue with the strawberries. We only have this year and next year before our lease runs out, and I plan to move to a new location. If I plant the strawberries in the garden beds, and then I have to move them in two years, will they live? Should I instead plant them in little kiddie swimming pools that can be moved? I’m just not sure what to do about a crop that comes back every year.

Ft. Living Room Homestead

I am about to start a small 2 acre berry farm here in Michigan. I was wondering if it would help to take all of the new runners and bring them inside, putting them in starter soil? I would imagine that it would help get the roots a bit stronger before directly sewing into a new bed??

If that was not accurate, what would be the best method for ensuring the survival of new plants?

Thank you for all of your AMAZING content!

nniffa

Great video. I would love to start strawberries one day. I have a question about container gardens - what do you do with the soil once the season is over? How do you reuse it? It seems very wasteful to throw it out. If I rotate my container crops will I need to remix the soil? Thanks for any help. I love your channel, it's really inspired me to finally get growing. It's Spring for me right now and I just started all my plants and i'm already planning ahead to next season!

Saph's Container Garden

nniffa I mix in my old container soil with new soil and compost and organic fertilizer. If I had a lot of compost, I would probably just use that and fertilizer and not buy new soil

brokendad

Over 50 yrs ago my Father taught me to plant strawberry runners alone. Every 3rd year the parent row is tilled up and the runners become the main rows. New plants will produce more and bigger berries.

Gerard Donato

Thank you for sharing your experience with excellent advice and very clear explanation.

John Doe

I make small V shaped stakes with wire and use to stake a new runner into a pot until it roots and then I cut off the mother. Works great and the metal wire stakes can be reused.

krystin blaschek

I baught a strawberry plant that had roughly 33 baby plants hanging off it.. before I watched this video I ended up clipping them and planting the babys in hanging baskets beginning of July.. most are around 3 inches some a tad bit smaller.. what are the chances of any of them successfully rooting.. and do you have tips to care and maintain them the way iv done it to help ensure they root properly?

dragon19777

Thanks for this. I love your channel. Question. I was given a strawberry plant in a pot. When I transplant to my new bed will the runners be sufficient to produce enough for a 2ft x 4ft bed? Or will I need to initially plant more than one plant.
Thanks

Alex

Are you wanting the entire bed just strawberries? I bought two mature plants and one of them is giving about 5 daughter plants. The other one is giving 1 or 2 daughter plants. I tend to plant things in pairs just so they can cross pollinate.

StreetMachine18

I root my runners in cups of compost then clip them off after they get rooted solid. And then transplant. From 6 plants I got about 100 daughter plants! Sold some, planted some, gave some away, threw the weak ones in the compost bin and I still have a lot left over.

Ala Blakelock

I do this too, works very well. Just cupped some & transplanted some cupped ones into a new plot today.

Laurie McGee

Why are my strawberry plants do y’all?

Ronga

StreetMachine18
Me too.

TheRainHarvester

@StreetMachine18 So far, Camorosa, seems to be what I want: heat tolerant, perennial, June bearing. Tolerates soil better than quinalt. Now I just gotta find it, or something better.

StreetMachine18

@TheRainHarvester check your local big box home store they should have a few in the garden center the specific thing is to find a strain / breed that will match your climate zone.

Sandra T

huh, it has never occurred to me that you can plant the baby plants to a different bed, what a genius idea. Luke, if you ever wonder whether to mention something or not, pls do mention, may be something very basic, but there ARE people who just dont think of it. :-D Thank you

T Kin

I'm trying to get a strawberry field established with just 6 plants....but will keep this in mind once it gets going.

Julie Smith

What do you do to winterize the strawberries?

Elaina Doak

I can’t wait until the strawberry bed I started last year becomes totally filled out. The two plants I bought last year is now about 5 plants and they are loaded with flowers/ starting to form strawberries. Mine are the ever bearing. Nice big juicy strawberries. Mmmmmm. Gardening is awesome

Vivian Burnette

Thanks for guiding me to have a great strawberry bed. My first time an I have beautiful plants this year with lots of runners, so now I will a extra bed to have for them.very helpful information.

david shepherd

Tried and true, 3" to 6 " raised beds two feet wide, plant two rows 4 inches from the edges and put runners into the opposite row on the same bed. dress with a mix of compost and well-composted sawdust in spring. I use cedar and it seems to work the best

Noel Sundby

How long does an individual strawberry plant live? I'm just starting my strawberry patch. Planted some plants I took from an abandoned site last year and they're producing berries like crazy now. Hopefully I can expand the bed and really get a significant harvest every year.

Linda Fogarty

Im confused. That was a lot in the beginning but Im sure it will make sense when I get more experience with strawberry growing but really appreciate all your videos. They are very well done.

Virginia Moss

I would put the mulch down first and plant through it; it's more difficult to get the mulch evenly distributed between all the plants without covering them over.

M. Ali

What is the herb that you have growing with your strawberries? Also, why did you not cut back the leaves of the plants as Ive seen in other videos?

Gary Stark

You mentioned that production falls off with older strawberries. Just how significant is that drop in production? Are the berries smaller? Less of them? Also, if new plants produce better, why not dump all the older strawberry plants every single year? I recall asking a roadside strawberry stand seller about this and he said they replant every year.

MIgardener

replanting every year is totally unnecessary but every 3 years is recommended for sure.

Ken Simmons

I have a rotation system with 3 beds (Junebearing). I trim off all the runners in bed 1 until after harvest time, then allow enough runners to root into pots to plant a 2nd bed. The next year I trim all of the runners in the 1st bed all season, and repeat the rooting process in the 2nd bed. creating a 3rd bed. In the 3rd year I trim all runners, and after harvest remove the plants from the first bed and renew the bed for a different crop next year. (I really should put in a cover crop at this point. Gotta try that). This works well if you want a lot of berries and you have room. Thank you for all the work you've put into these videos over the years.

Al Burke

trying a new garden spot and everything was dying because the ground was mostly clay. Last year I built raised beds, and have had good luck with them and want to start growing strawberries. I found 2 strawberry plants growing out of the clay, and dug them up and put them in plastic pots with new soil. They are doing well, and now are throwing out runners. It's September here in Michigan and I want to do something with the plants and the runners so I can get something going next year. What do I do with these 2 plants, and the runners they're throwing? thx.

Sandi Morreale

I'm kinda glad to see your beds got even crazier than mine. I was feeling badly about them getting so far out of control. Blessings!

shery amir aslani

First thing I noticed 😂

ECCastiron

The Method I choose is, "Don't mess with them". I let the runners go. I just toss them back into the bed if they grow out of it, but other than that don't mess with them. What I've noticed The "umbilical" between the mother and runner will eventually die and you have 2 plants.

Rose O

I recently got some big strawberry plants and I kept some runners to propagate in pots and I'm just going to have them chill in the pots with "strawberry potting soil" for about 4-8 weeks so the roots can get established and then cut them from the mother. I personally want big red berries.

Eduard Manea

Hi! Would you clip runners into new bed the first year in the fall?? I’m in MI planting my strawberry plants now for first time. Wait to move daughter plants in fall next year or would you do that first year too?

Charlene Kociuba

Amazing! I started strawberry plants from pelleted seeds last year. Now I have all these babies, tiny leaves, in the planter I segregated them into. Now what? Do I separate them so they have room to get bigger in a permanent bed? That's what I'm thinking I will do, in a new "no dig mound". If you are looking back, I hope you can answer this question. I've been so frustrated with getting strawberries established as part of my retirement plan to grow food. Also What is the benefit of azomte? It seems there just isn't enough in a bag to make a difference in my 28 by 8 foot "no dig" mounded rows. I keep hauling up composted leaves in buckets so I assume azomite is like a bag of heavy minerals. Let me know what you might suggests. It's quite the uphill haul to get product to the plot. Thank you

Linda Spellman

Is the lifespan of everbearing different than june-bearing? My everbearing must be coming up on its fifth or sixth season and last year was the best so far! I'm planning to take them out of their container (hugelkulture but never refreshed or amended) and give them a home in the ground. Seems a waste of time if they're nearing end-of-life anyway

nemesisbreakz

What's the best way to get started in growing strawberries? From a plant? Seed? I want to get started but don't know where to start. I'm in Kansas btw, which is zone 6b from what I've found online. I would most likely be growing them in containers. Also, are there any varieties that would do better in my zone over others? I could bring them inside during cold weather as I have plenty of space indoors.

brandonproductions88

Is it possible to cut off the runner without first letting it establish itself into soil? And then just pot the runner right away?
I have a strawberry plant in a hanging basket and a bunch of runners came off, they were developing mini roots already and I just snipped the runners off and put them all in individual pots.
Thanks in advance!

Mid Null

you can also uproot the runners and put them into small potting containers, do not snip the runner from the mother plant, let it establish in the potting container, then prune it off... that way, the survivability of the runner is increased...rather then just transplanting it...

Linda Feinauer

I have a new bed of strawberries and it’s September. These plants started flowering again with lots of strawberries. I am in Mi and thought it is getting a little late for them. I notice that some people cut the berries back before they cover them. Don’t know if I want to do that. We plan to cover them with straw for the winter. Help!

Mikhoyan

Should I keep the runner attached with the mother plant while potting or I can cut off the runner first from the mother plant then pot it separately ?

mystique rose

Hi..what do you use for mulch around strawberry plants? Thanks

cjoh101

I planted my first strawberry plant and all it has produced is runners. The only fruit it has grown was 3 berries in the beginning. I trimmed off the runners and planted them, hoping that my mother plant will produce fruit before fall. Any tips for what I’m trying to accomplish?

Ale

1st year plants normally don't produce fruit.

Unknown Unknown

I have a strawberry hanging basket and want to try to newly plant a runner in a separate container. What kind of soil is best?? And how long should I leave it before cutting the cord from mother plant?

S D

Hi thanks for your video. I've got some crazy runners with dead leaves. It's actually the middle of winter now almost spring. should I still follow the above method if there's flowers and the start of fruit showing? Should I also be cropping the dead leaves?

Abbie K

I have first year everbearing strawberries. I bought the plants already established. I am planted them in my container garden. My containers are getting so full of runners, and becoming overcrowded. I am wondering if I can cut the runners and transplant them, or if the plant is too young and wouldn't survive. I clipped the flowers for the first 2 months, and since then have let them do their thing. I pick about 2 strawberries a day. I have about a dozen or so on at all times thus far. Thanks for your help!

Aubrey Rudolph

Can you leave your rooted strawberry runners in the same place to overwinter?

Minnesota PhatFoodies

Is there a way to tell how old a plant is? I bought a plant at Home Depot in pot. Is it more likely it’s a runner that grown?

Cmuron

It would be nice to revisit how to videos later showing the successes of your methods.

Google User

Hi, Luke, “emergency” question here. You may have a video on it. What are some really budget friendly ways to start seeds indoors (or outdoors)? I’ve already spent about $70 on a grow system plus seeds.My nephew may or may not have broken it. I had rose seedlings before he messed w it. Planted some more and they’re not sprouting. I was really wanted to do some outdoor gardening tomorrow. We have clay soil so I might have to wait anyway.

meg elizabeth

I know this is late, but we actually just used a grow lamp lightbulb on a small lamp.
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Brandi

This was super helpful! Another great video from MiGardener!

Rebecca MacDonald

Your video was very informative! Thank you for all the info and you have gained a sub 😊

Beating Autism

The first time I have ever understood strawberries and runners, thank you!

Bo McGillacutty

Invasive in a very easy to control fashion. For my climate they die over summer if not watered regularly.

Sarah Smith

Thank you for this! Haven't watched yet, but I have a huge bucket full of runners that I've pulled!

2quick4 u

Hi what is the planting frame? and how many grames can one plant produce? thanks

A M

Thanks. Very informative. Picked up a few tips and tricks.

Christine Bell

I live in northern Illinois. Is it still to late to transplant my runners. I did nothing after growing season as I had a severe greese burn on my hand and was unable to do anything much outside. Last fall I just cut off runners but my 2 year old mother plants produced very small berries this past season. When and what kind of fertilizer do you suggest. Thanks much!

Crunchy Dad

Much of what you are saying is also dependant upon your zone. I'm in a warmer climate, and many of my runners put on runners. So much so they're choking out the grass.

Linda James

Thank you, you have answered my questions to myself about my strawberries.

Emily Tewoldemedhin

When you transplant the baby plants in the fall, are you supposed to pick the fruit they produce the next June? I’ve heard advice that you should pinch off the flowers to produce larger berries the following June.

surveyguyor

Emily I have not heard this. just pinch the new runners. the strawberries can grow. they will preserve energy in late fall and all winter and early winter while their leaves are still collecting energy.

The California Gardener

Hi 👋🏽 Luke, great info. Was wondering if you were going to offer strawberry plants in your seed store?? Maybe 2019?? Have a great day my friend.

Theresa Kennedy

This is so helpful! Thank you.

Fern

I got my first strawberry plant earlier this year, I have it growing on my deck for a few months and then I see these long stems growing from my original plant. I have a lot to deal with. I have runners and then I have runners growing off of them. Can I clip the runners and plant them, or do I have to have them growing from the mother plant, plant them and then trim them when they establish a root system?

Dallas Willer

Clip the runners you dint want.... I typically let each plant send a runner till it sends roots off of it and then I'll snip it and transplant. The end

Teresa Schmidt

I was wondering about when is the last time they need to be watered or how long can they go without being watered over the winter if I am covering them for the winter from the frost. I am in Western Slope of CO.

christina st onge

I just started gardening and I choose to make a very small raised bed to put strawberries now it took a while for them to grow actual berries and they finally started producing runners I kinda want to know why the plants aren't producing runners

nate fidalgo

Curious I am wondering where new crowns are harvested from are those just part of the runners process? Because I bought crowns and there working great but curious on if I can harvest my own crowns instead of buying them ?

don cook

So I’ve tried various ways to grow strawberries from seed using well known sources and nev-ver sprouted one seed. Recently tossed bad berries into some potting mix. Periodically watered and I now have a dozen sprouts. HOW DO I now keep them alive and is there enough season left if I get them transplanted, so that they can over winter. Eastern Nebraska zone 5B Sooo excited

Tuğba BAŞARAN DEMİRAL

Hi from Turkey! I want to ask something different.I really wonder what are the things between the rising beds. Are they wood pieces?

Rae Andringa

My bed looks crazy like that, if not worse! I was worried I was too late, but I'm glad you specified that the runners will just have good roots and I didn't mess up!

force4properties@outlook.com

All I do is cut them in the middle of the runner - I don't pull them up and replant them. Did the same with my blackberries and they are growing everywhere with tons of flowers! Getting ready for lots of blackberries! Yay!

Dr. Luci Kidd

@Jared GiffYour comment is from a year ago, how has this method worked. This is what I have been doing this year, clipping the ones with roots from the mother and setting them in the same bed.

Jared Giff

Thank you. I'm just about to plant 6 in a raised bed and all this talk about removing and transplanting elsewhere didn't seem to make sense. I plan to do exactly what you describe. Thanks =)

Jerry Zanin

What do you do with the strawberry plants when it snows?

Colleen Pritchett

I plant into a kiddie large pool, about 10 plants and let them be crazy. Have tons and tons of strawberries, small area but works for me

Omar Laddad

The squirl was very cute the way he came in the vid at 5:30 try to find it

Colleen Pritchett

@Unknown Unknown I used 1/3 top soil, 1/3 peat and 1/3 cow manure

Unknown Unknown

What kind of soil do you use and how to you take care of yours?

Shireen Fatima

https://youtu.be/XtUrA-Hvd9Q

Colleen Pritchett

Julie I just add some fertilizer and they are fine

Linda Fogarty

I’m in zone 9 central Florida and wondering if I can removed the runners and replant them anytime in the mild weather just not in the Summer when they are dormant. Would this be correct?

James

Can I just replace an old non fruiting plant with a new plant from a runner? Or do I need to replace it with a completely new plant?

I have a raised pallet bed, would you think moving the entire contents to a new bed would work yet this year, we haven't had a frost yet here in Wisconsin

bc24roxy

first time growing strawberries. I only have a few runners. I put them on top of small pots but still connected to mother plant so they will root. so do i want to wait till they root then clip the the cord from the mother plant or cut now and hope that they root?

Kevin Dwyer

Luke, it's my first year with strawberries. I have a 4 x 8 bed with June bearing. And a 4 x 4 bed with everbearing. How important is it to pick the flowers this year?

dc rosco

thank you for the video. I did this to my strawberries at the end of summer it can be a pain in the butt to keep in check

Don Altland

Can I make my own bare rooted plants and hold in the refrigerator till fall?

Barkley Burker

great video...like the how to lecture then the actual doing of the lecture...makes everything stone clear   thanks

Drinkin Buddy

Do strawberries last through the winter where you are and come next year?

Deb Cambria

It's now November in zone 7b. Should I try to root runner's now or is it too late. I've done it before but left some on mother plants. If not should I leave on mother plants?

Jerilynn Barkdull

What time of year would you suggest I do this in Florida (zone 9)? It stays quite warm here through the end of November.

GROUNDED GREENS

Its mid July 2019 in Salinas California the Salad Bowl Capital of the World... we grow tons of strawberries near this area. My strawberries at home are producing runners well before winter I placed small potting beds near the runners and allow them to establish roots then trim them cords off... In this area zone 9b winters are mild the problem Im having is its July and the mother plants are producing smaller strawberries right now because the runners are growing but thats ok for me... Next year ill have more plants And hopefully the strawberries arent that small

tomashlar

Will this work if I replant rooted runners in pvc planter before winter?

Simone Bourgeois

Mmm strawberries 😋😋. I'm going to be growing a few strawberry plants next spring found this video helpful. Like mint, do I have to regularly trim back the runners to keep a tidy plant?

MrGrombie

Could you use a hydroponic system to save more of the plants? Once the roots develop a bit more, transplant them back into the ground?

MrGrombie

Maybe a more well established gardener could do more with this idea right now than I could. I have a bunch of seeds germinating again. My last attempt to a garden failed when I couldn't tell the difference between a weed and a sprout. So now I am growing them separate and then transplanting them when they get bigger to set up the first wave of actual plant production. That and buying a watering can and burying a water hose to my patch so it is semi irrigated. Just making it as easy as possible long term on the cheap.

MrGrombie

Maybe do it for the less mature ones to make it easier to maintain for short term bursts of root growth.

christina wedow

Do you then put staw under and around the new plants?

Idaho Hoosier

Y'all are the best! My strawberries thst were crazy productive but have dine nothing for a month. More than a month of 100°+. Plants are shaded 2pm on.
Cut all the runbers off, fertilized. Niw what? Thx for sharing, julie

jerome spencer

is it possible to go out and gather wild strawberry plants and pot them to grow at home?

jred1838

Like the music while you were planting. Good info. I have been confused by the many approaches out there. I have seen decreased production for not thinning.

TheRainHarvester

Any recommendations for central Texas strawberries? I want to propagate then each year for myself.

John Doe

I know you've grown Ozark Beauty and Jewel strawberries. Do you have a preferred variety for our climate? I'm going to grow pineberries next year, a white colored strawberry with pineapple flavors...

MIgardener

Jewel and ozark beauty are both excellent. I personally like Honeyo but they don't survive as well, but they are by far superior when it comes to fruit size and flavor.

T Kin

Bought 6 potted white strawberry plants still in the temporary pots haven't decided how to grow them yet...might just make a small strawberry bed and plant it in the garden but am leaning more towards container growing or trying the new milk crate way that is somewhat popular in youtube.

Linda Readman

I grew pineberries this year but nothing came up. You may have to wait a year before you start seeing those Pineberries.