In this video I’m going to show you several ways to propagate your strawberry runners. You’ll never have to buy more strawberry plants!
In this video I’m going to show you several ways to propagate your strawberry runners. You’ll never have to buy more strawberry plants!
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Great! My Greenstalk has strawberry plants but not many strawberries. The runners are rooting to lower levels. Maybe more strawberries next year.
Great advise! Thank you!
I have struggled wintering them over in the greenstalk. Ideas anyone? I am planting runners in the ground for back ups. Hopefully that works! But really want the ones in my greenstalk to survive winter! Zone 5b.
Growing up in NJ we covered them them with straw. As a child I thought that was why they were called Stawberries😂😂😂
Wow, my strawberries in the green stalk have no runners, they barely produced! I will buy a self watering kit.
Brilliant!! I’m sick of buying these plants every year!
I needed this video. I got disgusted with the strawberry plant in the hanging basket I bought so I just took it out of the container and planted the main plant in the ground and spread the runners out from there. It looks healthier now than it ever did and the runners have all rooted .I was just going to leave them go and let them spread but I guess you are telling me I need to cut the runners off from the main plant now? I am going to have to rewatch this video to understand how to take care of them. Thank you. I am in zone 6b and I can cover them this winter with straw and they will be ok? We are supposed to have a bad winter this year.
Love the sandwich bag strawberry hack!! 👍🏼❤️
I'm in zone 9b the strawberries never do well . I've tried twice to grow them and to no avail maybe they get too much sun I'm going to try again. thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for all of this information regarding the strawberries and the tower. It is so helpful for me.! Love your channel. Keep up the good work and info.
Good news, you dont have to do all that! Just cut off the small forming plants off the runners even if they have barely roots and push them in a tray with potting soil. Clip all leaves except the smallest leaf. Keep them moist and they will root! 😊
Using plastic or metal rain gutters is the absolute way to grow strawberries. Strawberry towers appear unique and worthy – but if you ever do strawberry gutters – you will never use towers or do flatlander strawberry gardening ever again. No excess dirt and fixed garden land use. Minimal fertilization and irrigation, with maximum mulching. Easy mobility of gutters by putting into the sun and move into shade in extreme heat weather days. Able to put the gutters atop and along a terraced flat-surfaced stone/concrete wall (raised beds), lay out on a patio or decking (or their fencing rails), put into a gazebo, or put along a roadside. One can even use the inside portion of a stone/concrete stairway (or the patio/decking wooden stairs) – and put the gutter against the back of the steps. One can even make an espalier scaffolding and have an entire vertically-shelved gutter wall of strawberries (and green screen shade) – for as many as 8 inches apart in height for up to ~6 feet (9 vertical rows). Having modern gutter lengths of 8, 10, up to 16 foot lengths, with plants in the gutter 8 inches apart has 9, 15, and 24 plants in each gutter for up to 9 vertical rows – with 84, 120, and 216 plants. Thattsa lotta strawberries to eat ! No real downsides to gutters – unless they are left outside in the Winter – when in reality, they can easilby be brought inside and put into a warm southern-facing room (up against the northern wall with full sunlight) and the plants can over-winter – until Spring, when they are taken back outside.
Hmmm. Never thought of using baggies. I have soil-filled Solo cups tucked in all over in my greenstalk with runners pinned in them. It's only been a couple weeks, and they all have roots. I do have problems with accidentally catching tools or the watering extension on the runners and yanking them out of the Solo cups, so the baggies could be a good option. Thanks, Brian!
I am thinking of doing a "gutter grow" (back problems have forced me to pause any in ground gardening, for now) with strawberries, but hydroponically. Can I use the "pot method" to root the runners and later either plant them in soil or add another gutter for the next season?
I tried growing strawberries in my GreenStalk planter this past spring, but they all died. Bought some more plants, planted them into the GS, and they all died. I gave up. I've seen many people grow strawberries successfully in their GS, so I don't know why mine wouldn't grow. Yes, the crown was above the potting mix.
An easy ancestral method – "stawberries love rocks." Rocks protect the extra soil around the strawberries from dehydration. The strawberry roots hide under the cool and damp rock – while at night time – all the daytime sunlight and heat acquired by the rock – disseminates into the soil and the plant keeping them warm. Rocks also protect against extreme heat, drought, wind convection evaporation – and wind chill. Also if you have holes in any of your terraced beds (or make those holes !) then put strawberries into those stone/concrete walls and they will fluorish – and you will have a wall of greenery – instead of a hot stone/concrete wall baking you in the daytime and night time.
You can put another planter tower next and put the shoots there on the same level!
I noticed that your patch also had asparagus in the same patch.
Is this commonly done? I planted the two together myself and was wondering.
Wow, thanks!
👎redundant!! Garden Answer beat you to it!! 😮
Thank you Brian! I was waiting for this. I have a green stalk too. I hope you will do an update and how to overwinter them. I never have success with that.
😂 That thumbnail is how my tomatoes feel living beside my tomatoes.
I lost every strawberry plant in my tower to vine weevils. The only ones that survived were the runners that I had trailed into other pots. This year I treated the tower and other pots with Nemysis Vine Weevil killer in August (Nematodes). The runners that survived last years attack have produced runners themselves this year, so I've built them up again. To be honest, it's expensive to grow strawberries in containers if you have vine weevils, because you have to continually treat them to kill the grubs that eat the roots. I grow herbs and lettuce in my tower too, but the strawberries are a real treat.
QUESTION: how do you cover the strawberries with mulch when there in a green stalk? 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃
SEED TAPE? Anyone using seed tape? I just tried it to plant teeny weeny brassica and lettuce seed making seed tape from a ply of toilet paper and glue made from flour and water. I did it to save my back, but it seems like an ideal way to plant dinky seeds 1/8" deep with the paper helping to keep the seed moist. Brian, do you have any opinions on this? What are the pros and cons? I only see pros, but I have just started using it. It's very *EASY*! There must be a catch…
Awesome growing ideas for the prolific strawberry plant, this is my first year growing strawberries in a green stock and all of the plants have runners. Yay for more strawberries.
Perfect timing. Thanks.