Strawberry plant

[pastandpresent]

Hi.

I bought strawberry plant last year, and planted in the hanging basket. It's not normal white flowering one, it's dark pink one with the small strawberries half the size of normal ones.

It's still flowering and producing fruit after all through the summer. I just counted at least 50+ flowering, and 100+ petals fallen off.1/10 of them would produce fruit.

It started to get frost where I live. I covered the plant last year when started to get frosty and took them off in the spring, but it was still a baby plant. Now it's huge, with most of flowering bits hanging down the sides.

What should I do? Just leave it as it is? Or chop off all the hanging flowering bits and cover it? I have no clue. Please help, I don't want it to die. TIA.

They sound like alpine strawberries? Mine are still flowering and fruiting. All strawberries are hardy as far as I know, so no need to cover it, it'll be fine. Just keep picking and enjoying the fruit as long as it goes on!

Oh, thank you. That's great to hear.

What do you mean by "hanging flowering bits"? Are they like little plants on long stems? If so, then take the basket down, put some pots of soil around it, and peg the little plants down on to the soil. With luck they will root and form new plants.

Alternatively curl them back up and into the hanging basked and get them to root there.

Thank you, the new shoots on the long stems, I've already cut and planted in the pot, didn't know what I was doing, tbh, so I cut them off from the plant. But it's all become mini baby plant and leaves started to grow, so hopefully I will have more plants next year.

Not to worry, they'll have leaves of their own to provide nutrient for growing, it's just that if you don't cut them off until the roots are established, they can be getting nutrient from the parent plant and are less likely to fail. But they produce so many runners that losing a few isn't a problem.