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Strawberry plants crop best in years two and three, sometimes continuing to fruit well into year four. To ensure you’re replacing old plants before harvests diminish, plant runners in pots during year two or three so you have replacements ready to go into the ground on a rolling basis. How to over winter strawberry plants

Summer-fruiting strawberries – these are the most popular type and produce the largest fruit. They have a short but heavy cropping period of two or three weeks. There are early-, mid- and late-fruiting cultivars, cropping from early to mid-summer. If covered with cloches or grown in a greenhouse from late winter, they will provide even earlier harvests. You can propagate from especially good plants at this time of year too. Pin the first plantlet on a good, healthy runner into a pot of compost. Once it is rooted, detach the runner from the parent plant. Late summer and early autumn are the best time to plant these new strawberries into new beds. They’ll establish well at that time of year and produce a crop next summer.Grow strawberries in a well-drained soil, with added organic matter such as compost, animal manure. Drip irrigationis best to help avoid fungal diseases in plants. You will be able to have a really good berry harvest if you just keep cutting and planting the baby runners from the newest plants. These will bear fruit the following year.For other maintenance, all you really need to do is keep the berry bed weeded. If you grow perpetual strawberries (also known as autumn-fruiting or ever-bearing, such as ‘Flamenco’), which crop later in the year, all you need do in summer is remove any dead leaves that appear.

During this strawberry season in late January and early February it was particularly cold," explained Dr. Nir Dai, who was one of the witnesses during the strawberry's weigh-in.If growing strawberries in pots or hanging baskets, feed them every two weeks during the growing season with a balanced fertiliser. When flowering begins, switch to a high-potash liquid fertiliser to encourage good fruiting. Large fruit - These could be the largest strawberries ever and unlike some other 'king-sized' fruits they are simply bursting with flavour too. However, instead of bearing one big harvest over the next month, these berries will keep growing and bearing fruit all summer long, sometimes even into the Fall months! If you want just a few plants but huge berries, snip these runners off! Yes, every single one of them. These Felco hand pruners are perfect for making clean cuts. I have a lot of sawdust laid down as a mulch (we also use straw), and it has helped a lot to keep the weeds down.Weeding and regular watering are all that are needed. Early each spring, I top dress the plants with a shovel full of compost.

Growing strawberries from seed takes a little bit of patience because they take up to a month to germinate and will usually crop the following year. Nevertheless, this is a good way to grow more unusual varieties that aren't available as plants. A particular favourite, 'Florian', has pink flowers and produces fruit both on the parent plant and the runners, making it ideal for hanging baskets. How to grow strawberries indoors You could also grow them in a vertical planter, like this one. Or grow strawberry plants in these metal raised garden beds, which would keep all the weeds out. Perpetual-fruiting strawberries (or ever-bearing varieties) like 'Mara Des Bois', 'Flamenco', and Anais are a great choice if you don’t have much space because they produce fruit in flushes from early summer right through to early autumn. In poor soils, some extra fertiliser during the growing season may be beneficial, use a liquid fertiliser at this stage for better uptake.Alpine strawberries like 'Mignonette' produce lots of very small and sweet berries from July through to September. Growing strawberries in a greenhouse or conservatory means they’ll fruit up to a month earlier than outdoor plants. You may find you have a problem with slugs and snails being attracted to the strawberries. The best ways to combat these pests is to use copper tape. Just staple it around the edge of your raised bed or pot.