Think so. CAn you buy plants now ?

yup.
they're in all the shops.

ooo You lovely person ... yes please

Runners when they appear can be potted up while still on the plant ... then when really established they can then be cut free. ... then we need to get together for a BBQ !!!

MY strawberries are covered in fruit

I think I must have all late fruiting ones cos no sign of even flowers on mine yet. Oh well

Flowers on about half my plants so far. They're in growbags this year and will be going on my strawberry putter as my 4 year old has aptly named the heath robinson construction.

Will post a pic if I ever get round to putting it together

Not posting a pic of mine unless its a close up cos their all in among weeds as an attempt at hiding them from the birds!!! (it worked for a lottie neighbour last year)....

I potted up lots of runners at the end of last year cos I knew we'd be moving this year - they're all in very tiny pots so haven't grown much, but they are all flowering like mad

I weeded my strawberry patch today
(it was a jungle in there)

anyway, I was planning to transplant them to a patch of nicely manured ground but never got round to it and now they are all fruit laden but the ground they're in must surely be impoverished cos I didn't feed them last year either

so, shall I sprinkle on some 'growmore organic' and rake it in between them before mulching with straw?
or
mulch between plants with rotted manure?
or
leave them to their own devices this year and plant autumn runners in a new bed?

strawberries are a very important crop in this household, advice please???

Strawbs like manure round them. Water the ground well before plonking it round the plants. I grew strawbs for the last few years in fresh poo and they were fine

and you're sure they won't taste pooey?

no Poo is good. Repeat after me ........... Makes yer spuds a bit scabby but hey if you've got nowt else Nah poo is good for strawbs. Spent Growbags aint bad either if you got some

It's fine for spuds, courgettes,squashes, beans, corn, strawbs, cucumbers, melons. Trust me I'm a pooh expert

WORD OF CAUTION...Be careful with using poo this time of year cos you don't want nasty bugs on your fruit and resulting tummy upset.......

sooo...before I trundle down there tomorrow...

is it safe to put pooh in the spaces between the plants but leaving a good margin?
or shall I just go with the 'groworganic' idea?
and what the flip is 'groworganic' anyway?

just bung straw around them Tara, for this year
I'm gonna swat about strawberries for next year and dazzle you all with my newly-acquired knowledge At some time... soon

Mine are neatly wrapped in lots of shredded paper, they look very cosy and are covered in flowers

Personally I don't put manure on anything that I will eat uncooked just in case.

Commercially if you apply manure for such crops you don't plant it for 6 months!

Mine are all snugged under shredded paper from the office so my recommendation would be to give them some liquid/granular feed (+ compost rather than manure if you want) then mulch them under paper with straw on top.

cheers me dears

I've just inter-planted mine with some lettuce ... looking good !

I've just had my first 3 ripe strawbs, granted they are in the greenhouse, but they were very tasty

This is spooky............ I picked 3 ripe strawbs yesterday on the plot, they were delish, perhaps there all going to ripen in 3's this year.

snap!

I've had strawbs for over a week but they've not ripened yet

I found 2 ripe strawbs yesterday but one of them had been munched by something slimy the other one was fab though