My one tip for BIG Strawberries!
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- Do you get small strawberries from your plants? Learn my ONE tip for getting BIG strawberries! And it doesn't even require any tools, just your FINGERS!
My strawberry varieties:
June bearing: Hood
Everbearing: Albion
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:00 Strawberry varieties
3:34 My One Tip for BIG Strawberries
4:44 How to do it
6:45 Closing
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For those reading this and if she doesn't mention this in the video, it is vitally important to use runners to get new plants but restrict this effort to one or two plants as needed. A strawberry plant will produce for 3-5 years and then its production falls off.
Yes, thank you for bringing this up. In fact, we have plans to renovate on our strawberry beds this year with the runners since the production had declined slightly. They are about 4 years old.
@@OurSanctuaryGarden so it’s not needed the first 3 years? I planted strawberries from seed a year ago, right now they started flowering , the plants are big but not as big as yours so I wasn’t sure if I should cut flowers so that the plants can still grow
My plants started running a while ago so I have new patches that flower pretty quickly , so do I just cut off all the runners now or do I just wait until second year since 1st year plants don’t produce good fruit anyway? (Especially not in my weather )
@@vastya.3255 hi there! Regarding your questions, for the first few months after planting a strawberry plant, remove the blossoms to give the plant energy to focus on a good root system. It’s recommended to remove all flowers for the first year on June bearing, and to remove flowers until July for Everbearing. I would also start removing runners from your Everbearing plants unless you need/want more plants. For June bearing, I would let them produce some runners but don’t let them go crazy. You’re right that second year plants produce more and better fruit. I have a follow up video on my channel I posted recently on how to renovate an Everbearing strawberry bed. You might find it helpful as I clear a few things up. 😊 hope this answers your questions.
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@Sanctuary Gardens hello so remove all runners for the first 3 yrs
30 yrs ago I bought 2-6 pks of strawberries before the internet was in every house hold. Via an article in a gardening book I learned to plant the 1 yr old mother plant and to not allow the fruit to set but to snip off the blooms. Use a bright piece of yard or those piled up bread twist ties select the bright yellow or orange ones and place them around the base of each mother. Allow the runners to grow, root and mature. Depending on where you live 6 to 8 weeks before nightly temps are 32* transplant those runner babies on the other end of the strawberry bed(s). The next year allow the mother plants to set fruit but remove all runners as soon as you see them. Then the following years those original mother plants will produce huge berries, just keep removing the runners. Now you have those babies on the other end of the patch. Do the same thing with those the following year. Select one color per years worth of growth so not to mix them up and write on an index card whats what. The 2nd yr plants can then be moved closer to the original mothers and keep those runners snipped. After about 4 to 5 yrs start to replace the oldest mothers as many feel they start producing less fruits as they age. Have fun and gt down and dirty in the garden...!
Hi! This is very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing. That’s quite a system. Has it worked well for you? Do you have raised beds? I did a follow up video on renovating a strawberry bed and I had to do the process all at once because I needed to refill my raised bed with more soil. I like this process you have here as it makes it so you don’t have to renovate all the plants all at once.
Thank you 😊
Thank you for your advice! Using the bread ties are a smart idea! Thank you 4 this. It gives me a great start on my new bed next season!
I'll be giving this a try ! Thanks for sharing.
Try an individual pot, i made an experiment by planting half of my plant directly to the ground and some on a pot. They grow better in an individual pot. And each of the plant grow differently. Like it evolve themselves i was shocked to find one of my strawberry goes red(leaf). The pot one grow more fruit and free disease. The mixed one in the ground tend to be sharing disease. It leaf growth isnt good at all, also try hanging pot
I push the end into a 3 in pot for 5 days and let it send a root down before I clip it of the mother.
I've found that any longer than 5 days and you wont get as big of berries.
This is the way I ve found to get the best of both. I have allstars and quinault and this has worked for both for me
"Runners" are daughters. Keep the mother and get rid of the daughters. Replace the mother with new daughters every 3 -4 years.
Exactly! Thanks for adding your input!
Can't you use the daughters to start another branch on the family tree? 😊 I mean if you're getting rid of them might as well make use of them. Make more strawberries 😁
@@luvmy5515 would depend on available room/space, I'd think...
Can you plant the runners?
@@terrig2467 yes. If you have the room. In time you will get overcrowding. I think taking the runners and planting them next to a row of mother's would work and then in 3 years remove the mother's when the daughters are producing well. The strawberries will be small if you don't thin them out at some point. The mother last 3-4 years.
Excellent video, thank you! Now I'm all set to grow my strawberries.😋❤️
“Nothing beats home grown berries” I agree 100%!
They truly are the best! 👌🏼
Great tip. Now I know why I had so many new plants and small, not so sweet berries.
Thank you.
Strawberries like acidic soil for sweeter fruit
Glad I stumbled upon this video. AMAZING! I’m getting ready to start my first indoor and outdoor grow so it was great to see what a runner looks like and how to encourage strawberries to grow as large as possible on the mother plant. Thank you.
I’m glad it was helpful! Thanks for following along! More great videos coming! I have a whole playlist on strawberries!
You explained that so well. Thank you.
You’re welcome! Happy gardening!
Thanks for making the video lady 👍🏽👍🏽
I planted a dozen Quinalts in March. They became 100 plants, but I saw no fruit until this month(November)...three small strawberries. Wish I had known your trick. There’s always next year. 🙂 Thank you.
At least you have a bunch of plants now! How are the new plants doing? Have they started producing?
A big plus is having many plants, with this trick you can now get a huge yield
reduce nitrogen
Thanks for sharing your tip 😊
Thank you this is some helpful advice. Your garden lookds beautiful
easy and so effective !!! thank you
Thank you for sharing
We just moved to this new house last fall. Previously, my strawberries were attacked by slugs, snails and birds before we ever got fruit to eat. Now, we are in a drier climate and will be purchasing my new berries within the month. This nice tip comes in perfect timing with the onset of gardening season. Thank you. 6:47
How are they ?
Wow! Thank you SO MUCH for that amazing tip! It's brilliant! I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and pinch or cut off the runners from my strawberries! And each time I do, I will be thanking you. I just can't believe that no one has ever thought of this before now. God Bless!
You’re most welcome!
You’re strawberries are huge & they look so AH-MAZING!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing
First year growing strawberries here! Have little day neutral strawberries that are just starting to form! I pinched the buds until beginning of this month and they are flowering like crazy!
Wonderful! I hope they produce an abundance for you! :)
Thank you!!! I’m so glad I came across this video! I planted 50 bareroot strawberries in March/April and they are all smaller strawberries now that they are producing and tons of runners are coming! Now I know how to get big strawberries!!! Yay!!!
Glad to hear it! Hope this helps! Happy gardening
So did it work
Great Tip. Thanks for sharing
Very helpful video! Thank u ❤️
Thank you for the tip.
Good tip, thanks!
Thanks for the tip.. 💕
Thanks for shareing
Pretty cool!😊
Thanks for sharing such a great tip👏🏽keep up the good work fellow gardener 👍🏽
Thank you! Happy gardening!
Good to know - thanks for sharing
Thanks, its very obvious but never thought of doing this
Tq very much for ur kind information🤩❤
Awesome thanks for that!
I'll try it on my strawberry plants 👍👍🙏🇭🇲🇭🇲🇭🇲
Glad to help! Happy gardening!
Awesome tip!
Great tip. I prune mine and I replant the stem.
awesome!! I love this news thank you!
Good, good information.
The slope of your yard is great. My last residence had that slope and everything I planted in that low area did the best. I guess wetness is good.
Very good 👌 👍 👏
Nice shRing my friend
For anyone reading when removing the runners it actually works way easier to just push down instead of pinching off. The whole section would get removed with ease
Thank you! This is my first year gardening so I’m not expecting fruit until next year, but I’ll make sure to remember to do this!
I wish you all the best! 😊
Do I need to fertilize strawberry plants other than when first planted? If so with what?
@@slk363 yes, strawberries should be fertilized after their last crop. Try to avoid fertilizing them in the spring right before they start flowering, otherwise they may put out only leaves and less or no fruit. I plan to do a video on fertilizing strawberries once they’re fruiting (soon!) so watch for that.
I ordered ever berries this year and they're planted they look so healthy. I definitely needed to know this tip I'll just pick the runners and start new plants give them away lol
Glad this was helpful! I love sharing the runner baby plants with others!
Awesome ❤
TLDW: Prune off runners from the strawberry plant.
Great video thanks
Wow amazing 👍🥰
Those plants look very healthy
Thanks for sharing...we tried to grow strawberry in the tropic where it is green all the year round... removing runners and some leaves are essential..to increase the yield and size of the berries.
We are in Bellingham Wa and are starting a garden 🪴 this year. Thanks for the tips :)
Hi neighbor! 😊 I wish you all the best in your new gardening journey. I hope you find some helpful info here for gardening in the PNW. Cheers!
I love your garden 💞💞💞
Thank you ☺️
First time on your channel. Great video! Very clear explanation. I’ll be pinching off the runners we get this season. Thanks!
Welcome! Glad you found it helpful! 😊
So nice 😍 home grown is so satisfying 🤩😍
Yes, they are so much better!
Thanks For This! More please! Also
Thank You
thank you
I tried cutting my runners off and rooting them with hormone and it works, so you let the mother focus on berries and at the same time you can make more plants.
Awesome! That’s a question I get a lot if the runner can be used to make a new plant after it’s been clipped so I’m glad to hear you’ve had success with it.
Plants look great, thanks for the tip. I can't wait to eat strawberries from my indoor grow room. Animals always eat mine outdoors, so I am going to try indoors🙃
That will be nice to have them inside. I hope it works for you!
Ty!
Thank you
yummi yummi, never neglect strawberries.
Thanks
Nice job
Hi, just found your channel🤗 subscribed! Lovely garden and looking forward to more of your videos.
Thank you for the follow! I hope you find things helpful. And always feel free to comment with things you've learned in your gardening journey. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this video! Just an additional tip for those having trouble getting bigger berries .. it may be to do with pollination. If - like me - you live in 'the 'burbs' rather than out in the country, you may be noticing a decline in pollinator populations. Try planting flowering, pollinator attracting plants such as marigolds around/within your strawberry patches (mine are in hanging pots). If the time to do this has passed, then get yourself a soft-bristled paint-brush and hand pollinate your flowers, from the outside in towards the centre of the flower. If you have the time to do this daily (for a few pots of plants like I have), then great! Otherwise, you can get away with doing this every 3-4 days. Strawberry flowers are self-pollinating (meaning even just one flower can fertilize itself to produce a fruit as it has both male and female flower parts). However, some help from you may be needed. Brush from the outside (male parts) of the flower to the inside (female part*s*). For the size of the fruit to be maximized to its capacity, *each* female part needs to be pollinated. Hope this helps as an addition to the great info in this video!
Thank you for sharing this great tip!!
strawberry plants can self-pollinate
Awesome! I'm going to go out and do this tomorrow morning. My strawberries are fairly small.
Glad this was helpful! 😊 Happy Gardening!
I only grow Everbearing Strawberries because I prefer them producing throughout the summer. Right now, my bed is new, and I want more plants, so I am leaving the runners. Once I have all the plants I want, I fully intend on pinching those runners. Maybe I'll keep a few and start a few for my friends to have and to freshen my stock every few years.
You betcha! Sounds like you know what you're doing! I prefer everbearing myself... I may be getting rid of my June bearing this year. Happy gardening!
Thank you for that
Oh my gosh! Your berries look AMAZING and big. I know the flavor is off the chart. Enjoy!!
Thank you! They are scrumptious! 🍓😉
I use the runners for propagation but I can see why allowing them to develop can divert the plant's energy.
Hi friend. I got strawberries un march and they are growing again. I told you I was going to do my best and I did It.
Yay!! That’s great! Congratulations!
My older kiddo asked if you would share some with us, ha ha! Beautiful berries!! Need to go out and pluck my runners now.
I'd gladly share my bounty! ;)
Great vid
I often place the tiny runner plants in a small pot of potting soil while still connected to the mother. After it roots, I snip the umbilical cord. Then I can move the new baby wherever I want.
Thanks I just saw one of those runners on my strawberries so off it comes
Thank you! I've always been great at growing strawberry plants but lacking on the actual strawberries lol
You’re welcome and I hope you have better luck! 😊
It's so good I want variety it ❤️
The ever-bearing variety that we like is called Albion. :)
This is really awesome info and easily understood. I,m giving strawberry planting another try.
I'm glad you're going to try again! I wish you the very best luck!
Had to ff to the relevant part... time is valuable.
I started a strawberry plant in a pot this year. Let's see if it grows big after I plug off a runner. Thanks for the tip.
You’re welcome!
Pollination is more important than removing runners!!
Hi I love your dogs they are very cute 😊😁
My strawberries are loaded... heading out right now to do this!!!!
Around here, the Mt. Hood strain of strawberries are smaller, but boy are they delicious.
Good to know! We weren’t happy with our Hood strawberries but maybe I’ll give them another chance 😊
Hola, I AM from Habana. This is the first time I grow strawberries. I think I AM going to have a beautiful plant and good fruits. You know the climate here is not the best to grow but I Will try. I Will do my best.
I wish you the best! :)
Cool
Your strawberries are beautiful
Thank you! They're our favorite!
I like what you did and that’s a great idea, but the runners can also be soaked in water and make another plant and possibly sell them. And definitely use a scissors. You were really fighting there to pinch that off you can use a small scissors.
Actually that’s something you DONT want to do after the second year. Otherwise your killing off as they will die off after 3 years , so you’ll need those runners as you called them to continue the reproduction. They are actually called daughters from the mother plant. The reason for a large strawberry is the variety & FERTILIZER every 7 to 10 days during the fruit bearing season.
Very nice~ How long have those strawberry plants been in the garden beds? To save the clipped runners, put them in water, with the torn off end in the water and keep the growing tip out of the water but still resting on the water, and they will form roots.
Hi! These plants have been in the raised beds for about 2 years. In 1-2 more years, I plan to refresh the bed by doing exactly as you described! :) Cheers!
How do you rest the growing tip on the water?
Just got a Seascape variety plant (no doubt grown from a runner, lol) and was looking for tips on what to do with it. I will keep this tip and remember it when my plant is much bigger, because I want LOTS of strawberries and strawberry plants in the future. Been dreaming of that hanging, indoor strawberry cornucopia... :)
Thank you!
Actually water tends to rot them quickly. Letting them root directly into the ground either from the container of planting out the container gives it the best chance. There are ways to use water but they are still more advanced than me
Thank you answered my question 😊
hi sanctuary gardens 🤗
this video came across my feed and im so glad it did.
im actually watching you on my tv and laptop 🤣😂 i have strawberries and will definitely try this idea the next time i renovate my patch (your video im watching on tv).
i'm in zone 10. i'm not sure where you are, but i'm going to watch more of your videos to see what i can learn and what may work in my raised beds.
where do you get your straw? tfs
Hi there! I'm so glad you're here! Thanks for stopping by. :) I hope you learn a lot from my videos! More strawberry ones will be coming out in August (a whole series!). I am in zone 8b so I have a shorter growing season than you. I purchased my strawberries from a local nursery that specializes in berries and shrubs. I got mine as bareroot (my recommendation). Hope this helps! See you in a future comment thread! ;)
Last year I bought 3 plants and didnt know to prune off the runners. I didnt get ANY berries. However this year i took all those new plants i replanted in a more suitable area and ive got sooo many berries coming in.
That’s wonderful! Hopefully this tip helps too. 😊 happy gardening!
We too have strawberry, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberry "patches".
This is very interesting. I grow strawberries commercially (we have about 10 million plants this year) and most of the advice I see on the youtubes is utterly ludicrous. This however, is not. We only keep our plants for one season, and we go to great lengths to cut the runners off early in the year so the crowns grow bigger and the plant sets more, larger fruit. There may or may not be an obscene amount of Calcium and Potassium Nitrate and Magnesium Sulphate involved.
Towards the end of the season though, we start letting runners take root and cut them from the mother plant. We put them in trays and that becomes some of next year's plants.
This is very interesting to read! I know most commercial growers treat strawberries as annuals but I wasn’t aware they removed runners. Good to know. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tips
Why dont ye get 3-5 years out of a planting of strawberries? Why change them every year? Isnt that a lot of work?
@@sandrashane677 Do you really want to know the answer?
@Brad Carby yes please!
I am not perfect. But my strawberry plants are getting real good fertilized soil, rain and sunlight and when ever the mini plant grows I cut them all together and plant them. I started having them all from a single plant.
I always watch videos like this in the hopes that I learn something new and sometimes I do. Sadly in this case I didn't. That being said, I find if you've started a new patch of strawberries it's better to let it mat and then selectively snap runners. All the local strawberry growers near me with huge fields of them plant new mature plants every three years. Obviously due to how they need to be successful every year they plant mature crops. So they'll be growing or ordering in three year plants inadvance, so year 1 mature 3 year old plant, year 2 mature 3 year old plant, so and so forth. Obviously letting a patch mat will mean you might not get a huge amount of fruit or that your fruit is smaller. I ripped up all my plants at the end of last year and I put in two new varieties in spring. I was getting fruit relatively slow but it's slowly picked up but I've got quite a few runners going so the fruit is about everbearing size maybe a bit bigger. These days though you can big juicy strawberries later in the year, autumn/fall time, the same with raspberries. So I'm getting the summer ones currently but the autumn ones will pick up as they slow down and eventually stop. That being said though if you've got a nice patch like you guys have then leaving a few runners on older plants and snapping ones of the newer ones to start new plants for swapping out year 4/5 plants is great for maximising.
Thanks for leaving a comment and sharing what's working for you. I have a recent video on how I renovated my everbearing strawberry patch and I go over a few details that I didn't cover in this video. I'm always learning and adapting (always a student of the garden).
Those sweet dogs!
They are so sweet! 😊
I have everbearing strawberries, by thinning the number of flowers I allow to bloom in the flower clusters to 3 to 4 berries is how I get very large tasty strawberries. I'm not sure of the variety as I inherited the plants. They do not make runners however the crowns get multiple plants and in Octobre I separate the crowns for even more berry plants the next season.
That’s an interesting point about thinning the flowers. It makes sense. I’m glad it’s working for you. Maybe I’ll try it out. 😊 Enjoy those strawberries!
Do you thin the flowers while they're actively growing?
going with seascape in hanging bags this year
Beautiful garden, lush plants can tell you put a lot of care in them. I'm thinking of moving mine all to a raised bed, I wanted to rotate plants this year anyways. Do you find the raised bed easier to manage all the runners? Mine really over took my exterior flower beds this year through the fence line and I think it's time for more boundaries, and easier to put netting. Thanks!
Thank you! I do find the raised bed to be much easier especially on my back! I prune off runners every time I pick strawberries so they never get out of hand. Everbearing varieties don’t put out near as many runners as June bearing ones do. Happy gardening!
@@OurSanctuaryGarden how do you fertilize the soil and the strawberries themselves during the seasons ?
@@thedestroyer3879 I am working on a video on that coming out very soon but basically, it's recommended to fertilize with a balanced fertilizer where the NPK numbers are very close. Fertilize new strawberries within a week of planting. For june bearing, fertilize as soon as fruit production is done. For everbearing, fertilize throughout the growing season. Check back for the video. :)
@@OurSanctuaryGarden I have had my strawberries probably more than seven years and I have never ever fertilized them. I did buy quality soil years ago and I may have refreshed the soil a little bit. My runners are growing in the Pea gravel behind the planter box. So that’s just plain dirt. But my property used to be farm land but of course the builders scraped off the topsoil
@@dcwatashi that’s awesome you haven’t had to fertilize! Your soil may just have everything they need and if you’ve refreshed the soil that will help too. I’m experimenting with a fertilizer and worm castings this year. Check back for a future video on that!