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Seperating Plants

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  Posted by Suzi (U14920179) on Monday, 27th June 2011

  Hi,
  
  I'm a newbie this year the growing my own fruit and veg and gardening in general really. Things seem to be going ok but I'm concerned about my strawberries and was hoping for some advice.
  
  Basically I think I have too many plants in one pot and I want to seperate them. My concern is damaging the roots.... Should I attempt to seperate them or go for a much bigger pot to give them plenty of room to grow??
  
  

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  Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011

  Each year strawberry plants sends out 'runners' these are small plants on the ends of horizontal 'stems'. They may grow others further on from these as well.
  
  Select good strong looking mini plants and lay them on the top of a pot of soil/compost. In time these will root, when they have produced strong roots snip them off from the mother plant and there you are. New plants from old. Cheers, Tony.

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  Posted by Don Kidick (U13987773) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011

  Suzie
  
  The simple answer to your question is – it doesn’t matter.
  
  Strawberries are probably one of the toughest plants we grow and it is very difficult to damage them. You can either rip them apart and plant them in separate pots, leave them together and plant on to bigger pots, or as suggested above take the runners and make new plants.
  
  The runners will usually have 2 mini plants attached the one at the end of the runner being slightly lager than the one in the middle. The lager one is called the first and (if allowed to take root) will fruit the following year. The other (believe it or not is called the second and will fruit 2 years after taking root (usually).
  
  
  So you see why I say it doesn’t matter, just let your strawberry plants get on with it and they will be fine, your main problem will be stopping them growing where you don’t want them, not getting them to grow.
  
  
  Hope this makes sense and is useful. Cheers. Don
  

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  Posted by Suzi (U14920179) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011

  Thanks for the advice... wondering where I'm going to keep all these runners in my little grren house now : )

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  Posted by Barney_pl (U13897738) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011

  You don't need to keep them in your greenhouse. They'll do ok outside.
  
  Plant them out if you have the ground space this September, so they have time to settle in before the winter.
  
  If you don't have the ground space, pot them on singly into (minimum) 6" pots, and put them in a sheltered spot. They will develop good roots during the autumn ready to crop next year. If the weather is forecast to be as cold as last year, wrap the pots (not the whole plants) in bubble wrap to help to prevent the soil freezing in the pot.. They should survive.

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  Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011

  I agree with everything which has been said but if you want earlier strawberries plant up a trough bring it into your GH about Febuary/March time and they'll fruit earlier than those outdoors for picking about May time, mine have lasted until the one's in the garden have been ready to pick.

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