I want to grow strawberries - all advice welcome (ie needed!)

[SlightlyMadStirrup]

Looking at a preplanted strawberry pot - has 5 plants in it (you know the type - they poke out hte sides).

What sort of yeild will I get off this? What shoudl I look for when buying?

[WynkenBlynkenandNod]

I didn't realise until last week that there are some varieties called "perpetual" or "everbearing" eg. aromel or calypso and I'm sure a fair few others, that keep going for a much longer season so might be worth looking into .

We have probably 30 plants which gave us a decent crop for probably 6-8 weeks last year. I bought them as 3 different varities which had different fruiting times but they've all got a bit muddled with runners and I'm not sure which are which.

From those the DC's could take some to school each day, DH made several batches of ice cream and a thing of jam.

[NorbertDentressangle]

Do you get many off the trailing plants do you know? Its just that my Mum gave us some and I'm about to but them in baskets, planters etc

[2cats2many]

Growing them in hanging baskets helps keeps the slugs off.