strawberries... you see those shoots or runners or whatever theyre called...

[PissyGalore]

is the thing to do to chop em off and plant them? if so how where, when and what do i do?

ta!

come on - someone knows surely??

Ooh, interested in any replies too as I have just planted some strawberry plants (and I haven't a clue about gardening!) but I know the guy at B&Q said to cut them off.

You definitely cut them off because otherwise the plant puts all their energies into the new plant and makes fewer strawberries. How you replant the new one somewhere else I'm not sure. Rooting powder and dig a hole maybe.

depends if you want more plants.
If you do just trail them along and push the 'joints'under the soil and they'll take root.
Maybe they would take root if you cut them and put them somewhere else,probably would I should think.

hmmm, i have been getting far less strawberries...

ok, so cut where? close to the parent plant you reckon?

what is rooting powder? sounds like fun

plants are in pot thing... so will cut rather than the (beuatifully simple sounding) just run along and push em under...

If you just stick a pot under where the joint forms on the runner then it will root itself and you'll have a brand new plant. No need for rooting powder or anything complicated.

Well seeing as you made me larf Pissy...

Strawberry plants start to flag after about 3 or 4 years and produce less fruit. You need to turf them out and replace them with the "runners" - just snip off (near the new plant - minimum 4 or 5 leaves) and plant in compost and keep well watered until their root system has developed. You can keep fresh stock all the time this way.

Crap mum. Good at growing strawbs

cheers winestien

pissygalore; crap mother, crap at growing stuff too

I was just going to say that too winestein! Replace the old plants with the runners.

I just peg them down in a pot and cut the runner part when the plant has taken root. They do it so easily I've even got them growing out of cracks in the patio!

I just cut em off, dig em out and replant them elsewhere, they are surprisingly resilient and I made a massive strawberry patch unintentionally by doing this in my lasy garden!