Strawberries - who is a fab grower and can help me?

[LucyCampCat]

I've got some strawberry plants in a huge pot and I have the most fantastic set of leaves on them but wizened miserly fruit. Can I cut some leaves off so the 'goodness' goes to the fruit instead or do I need to keep them for shade?

also I have triffid like runners all over the place, should I be cutting these off too?

ta

Take the runners off - you can pot them up to make new plants for next year if you like. Don't take the leaves off, take the bad fruit off - it's probably too late to do anything for this year though if all the flowers are gone.

It sounds as if you haven't been watering them enough - they need stacks and stacks of water when the fruit starts to form.

Cheers wwb, that'll teach us to go away on holiday leaving the fil in charge of watering veg!