How many strawberries ?

[MereDintofPandiculation]

I’ve been growing strawberries for only about 5-6 years, and I know you’re supposed to discard old plants after a few years and keep replenishing from runners. But how do you know when an old plant is past it? My biggest, which I think is one of the originals, has 114 strawberries coming (yes, I counted them). It seems to me this is a good number for a single plant. But is it? I’ve no idea what modern varieties are capable of.

Mine has 4 :)

Aww, it’s just a baby

I kept meaning to pot the little plants off the runners but never got around to it. My trough full of strawberry plants was around a decade old. It had always performed well, but this spring they just died.

114 strawberries on one plant is amazing!

I shall cherish that one then! And grow runners from it.

114 is fantastic. I have 2 I am just a beginner though.

A hundred and fourteen!!!! I think you should contact someone in the trade with a view to making your fortune.
( I planted six plants in my newly acquired allotment. The slugs got the only fruit. That's right, one. The plants are just about hanging in there, I'm not confident)

I'm on my second year of potted strawberries. No fruit yet but the plants are looking healthy (I'm in the north up a big hill so always a few weeks behind).
Please can you explain how you pot new plants off runners? I'm couldn't understand it last year and non the wiser this year!

Put a pot full of soil under the plantlet at the end of the runner, and use couple of twigs or a flat rock to hold the runner in place on the pot. Over the few weeks the plantlet will grow roots into the soil in pot underneath it. Once it’s firmly rooted, you can cut through the runner.

The plants start sending out runners a bit later in the year