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Talkback: How to grow strawberries

I'm new to both the website and the world of gardening so any advice would be really helpful.
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  • I'm planting stawberries in hanging baskets for a balcony (first floor in a high rise flat. Will I be able to use the plants next year.?
  • I'm new on here and new to gardening. I find site very informative. Great!
  • joniejonie Posts: 1
    I have had a lot of success making new plants. Now I need to be able to take care of them.
  • I am new to Gardeners world and not very green fingered yet! My five year old daughters love of gardening has spurred me on and this site is perfect!
  • The only problem I have is that I grow mine in a strawberry pot and hanging baskets which are not close to a surface to stand the new pots on. Will have to tie the pots onto the hanging baskets to support them but a bit trickier with the stawberry planter as can't easily attach and can't find a tall enough pot to stand them on.
  • I found this explanation clear and as easy to follow as I usually find the explanations on this site.
  • AllotmentMaxAllotmentMax Posts: 189

    Some of my strawberries already have flowers, although they are small and not long in the ground. Should I remove flowers and let them grow a bit more first?

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267
    Strawberries grow for fun in my garden, in beds,pots and forced in the GH for an early crop.



    Last year I sowed some alpine strawberries which don't produce runners so are better behaved and don't over flow into other beds.I'm hoping for a perpetual crop through the summer, some of the plants are already flowering. I've also white strawberries and pineberry seeds to sow this year, can't wait to try them.
  • AllotmentMaxAllotmentMax Posts: 189

    Must admit, it's mainly a bit of trial and error as I don't know what kind of plants I have as a kindly neighbour at the allotment shared her runners with us.  We just planted them and hope for the best.  Some are under a cloche, some in the ground and others in a strawberry planter, so we will see what happens!image

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    AllotmentMax. Leave the flowers, they eventually produce the fruit. Unlike some plants, dead heading strawberry plants (ie..picking off the flowers) doesn't necessarily make them produce more flowers. You may end up with a plant of just leaves and runners with no flowers and fruit. 

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