Can you believe my strawbs have fruited again. Yesterday picked a dozen or so and had them for breakfast.

WHHOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

mine have ickle fruits on too (tho not red yet)

Mine are flowering again

Mine are in a 4 tier container which I went to dismantle and put on a bit of waste ground behind the shed so I could propagate some of the runners but when I went to move it on Sunday I found that I had 12 new strawberry plants growing out of my lawn! Trying to decide whether to dig them up and put them in pots (and leave holes in lawn) or mow over the top of them and hope they go away without damaging lawn

I'd take them out and pot them up. You could nick a bit of turf from the edge somewhere to fill any holes you migh make

That's probably what I'm going to do Wards - they have rooted really well!

Ah yes, strawbs...

After this last year, when I discovered the local PYO was growing the ghastly crunchy elsanta and it was cheaper to get them from the supermarket , my lovely lottie mate Chris has given me 15 potted-up runners from her marshmello plants. I always said I wouldn't grow strawbs cos they take up so much room and the PYO was nearby (and run by folk at my church) but they've given up the lease so I have no loyalty any more!

That and the marshmello knocks spots off any shop variety.

Now all I have to do is work out where the heck I'm going to put them. Have a horrible feeling they'll end up in the lottie flowerbed, in among the dahlias!

moonbells

Never heard of them MB, so I'll keep a look out. Ta for the tip. I bet they'd do well amongst the flowers. On the communal plot MB we've put them on top of that tall raised bed, growing through the sheet mulch. They're looking good

I've done with Marshall, nowt but trouble

MB - I've not got much room so I grew mine vertically! There's a picture of them in the other Strawberry thread - last updated around June time. I got them from

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- they're called self-watering towerpots They worked really well.

Wandering round the garden this afternoon I noticed flowers on me strawberries They're Cambridge Favourites which are sposed to be a mid season - think they may be earlies this year

Also noticed a few flowers on mine at the weekend, expect the frost will get the early fruit set.

All my lovely Alice strawbs have perished pesky squirrel dug them all out and I missed it ... too late to salvage any

... what variety should I start again ... with any suggestions?????

Flo we use 'Pink Panda' as its great ground cover too

Had my first strawbs today and very tasty they were too

Ain't you ever had strawbs before? Poor deprived life you Geordies have ain't it. You do know that apples grow on trees and don't come in barrels don't you?

Nope it's too cold up North

Is it???? For strawbs??????? Wow
You learn sumthing everyday

I was kidding Dom

Doh

Have been doing some research ... These come highly recommended for flavour and heavy crops

Tenira or Hapil for the main crop
Alice for a later crop

I have also bought some Elsanta

I have found that I am cursed with Strawbs too. The ones form the plot I inheriyted got stolen. First the fruit and then the plants. So DAd bought me loads which I killed by leaving them for ages and not planting them.

so it's runners for Flo and Baggy then

when do strawbs send out runners anyway?
is it in the autumn?