Hey, if you're brand new to gardening and you have no clue where to start, or maybe you've tried to grow in the past and didn't get the results you hoped for, I have a FREE online class just for you. A self-paced, video-based class called my 5 Keys To A Successful Vegetable Garden. Completely free, online video lesson with a fun quiz at the end! Check it out here: courses.theripetomatofarms.ca/courses/5Keys Get growing TODAY!
What if my strawberry plants (potted) are sending out huge amounts of runners (3-7 per WEEK) and the berries are small if they grow at all? Could it be due to over watering? My plants get 7-8hrs sunlight per day. I'm just trying to grow some berries, but the plants seem like they are on a mission to take over the world.
My older strawberry plants have formed tubers. You didn't cover this in your video. Working with tubers is a whole different technique. I add fresh compost to the raised beds each year, as the older compost volume decreases. I have two beds, each being one meter wide by six meters long and 500 mm deep. I pull out all plants in the spring and select the healthiest ones. I'm also trying to expand a few varieties that produce strawberries late in the season, that have a heart shape. Most of the plants produce very sweet round fruit in early summer, before the runners take over. I don't do much with runners during the growing season, just when I pull the plants. I save the healthy tubers and established plants. I'll save all clones of the ones I'm expanding. After topping off the bed with fresh compost, mainly from horse manure, I replant the selected ones in a grid like pattern. Do you have any thoughts about this?
What makes an enjoyably good UA-cam channel ???? Answer: The producer’s personality! You have it my man! In 66 years, I never knew much about strawberries until I watched your video . Thanks!!
We have about 100' of strawberry beds, we expand the runners, weed diligently, and mulch every spring. But as soon as they have begun to ripen and I see the jam that is to come, the squirrels come from miles around to raid. We've tried netting of various kinds, completely enclosed them, but the squirrels just laugh and laugh as they get through it all and feast in broad daylight. Next year we're going to invest in diy hardware cloth boxes with wooden frames. We are serious this time. I wouldn't go to this much trouble for any other plant, but I want my strawberry utopia and I'm going to have it.
Thank you. I planted one strawberry plant last year and this year it grows all over my garden. I didn't know that I have to cut the runners and replant. Thank you once again.
My strawberry plants have runners all over the place. I never knew they were a drain on the mother plants. This video was a great help for me to better manage my strawberries! Thanks!
This is the most informative strawberry tutorial I have seen. I ended up building cages for mine because of squirrels! First year harvest cost about 50 cents per berry. Summer, heat, fungus, Florida. I'll get better soon. Thanks Ken
Thanks so much Ken. Smart idea about the cages.....I've been lucky so far, but I know its only a matter of time before nature figures out how many berries are here, LOL! Cheers buddy. 🙂
Brilliant!! Thank you SO MUCH for this step by step video! EXACTLY what I needed! Now I SEE ( GREAT CAMERA WORK!) what I may have been doing wrong ( planting to deep, anchor wrong angle) what I did well and why ( keeping runner on mother while rooting) what I can try next! (Water method, anchors from vine!) So grateful, feeling more confident now...was about to give up!
I have them in a Greenstalk planter, vines don't always reach the pocket...but I can also try your pot method...if anyone has ideas how to attach or suspend a pot from the Greenstalk please share!
Don't give up sher! Definitely try the water method to get the hang of getting roots. Its all a timing thing. Keep them sheltered until they fully root, and then you're good to go!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms made the " sun" mistake too, planted a few in moist soil, then left the tray out in the sun, it was " only" about 4hrs...well..when I came home..it was 90..and about half the tray looked crispy... literally... I transferred them to our covered porch its been a few weeks, thought the crispy ones were goners...but when I pulled one out ( no anchors) it had new growth in center! Can't believe they *might* make it! Lol
What a frickin great video. I was just about to do this with my strawberry plants, they’re going crazy! Just needed a little jog of my memory but ended up knowing even more ways to plant the daughter plants! Thank you for such great informative videos! ❤
I'm just about to root some strawberry runners and was going to leave them attached and pinned into pots. Having seen you demonstrate it I'm going to use your water rooting method instead. Thank you for the time and effort you repeatedly give to the production of your videos.
Try both if you can. Once you get the hang of it, its much easier to nip them off and root them elsewhere...but the pinned pot method is good too and ALWAYS reliable. I would say try both at first if you can. Let us know how it goes!
Very helpful. I have wild fragaria virginiana in my back yard apparently seeded by birds on a wood chip pile. I want to maximize their cultivation and I just learned some very important things about how to do that.
I collected around 400 runners 2 years ago. 300 went in at my farm. The whitetail took them all. The rest basically went in a garden i did for a friend. A few were handed out to a couple of other friends. I struggled to come close to that last season. But i saved all but 5. Starting fresh with the additional white Pineberry. They are growing great. My reds are struggling.
Not sure what happened to my message, so sending it again. You are an amazing teacher. Love your slower method of explaining and pausing. Just amazing!
So glad you posted this video. I planted some strawberries last month, and one plant had 2 runners already! They are now in little pots and hopefully I will get 2 more plants.
Really appreciate the advice in this video. I overhauled a horribly overgrown and under-producing strawberry bed last fall and replanted 44 healthy parent plants back in the space, giving each plant at least 6" of room all around. The transplants took well before cold weather set in(zone 6). I was thinking I would remove all runners(stolons) from the plants as soon as I see them growing this year so all energy would go into producing blossoms and berries. Your advice reinforces my plan of action. :)
Thank you, that was a very well done video that was informative. I really like that you didnt rush it and even came back at the end to recap all the information. One day I may start doing videos too, and your channel is definitely an inspiration
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks, I really appreciate the kind words of encouragement. I'll definitely let you know if I do finally put something out there.
This video was so helpful. I found 4 strawberry plants growing in my compost patch...that now is 7....and they now producing runners....was only winging it what do with the runners...now....those 7 will be 12!!! Im running out of room...but worth it. Strawberries arent cheap here in Australia, especially large sweet good quality ones.
This has to be the best video on strawberries. This is my first year growing them and you have given me all the information I needed, and easy to understand. Great thanks 😊
Strawberries are soooo clever 😍 can’t wait to get outside in the morning and start planting runners :) maybe that means next year I’ll get more strawberries :)
Thanks Jeff! I had such a disappointing experience when I tried strawberries years ago, that I had never tried again! Now I could, with your great teaching! 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you. I've four plants, putting out two or three runners. Was going to save half, and compost the rest. This video came just in time, inspiring me to save them all!👍
Thank you for this!! I have everbearing & June berry plants that I grow every year. I've been just letting the daughter plants expand themselves out, but I couldn't figure out why my yield has been so low. Now I know!
You do a great job of teaching this subject. Like other commenters, I just needed a little reminder about the runner situation. Watching your video gave me so much more. Thank you and well done.😀
This is an incredibly informative video...I have bene gifted some strawberry plants with me just coming back from vacation I was welcomed with my first runner! This has helped greatly
Thank you so much for this video. This is the first year my strawberries didn’t dry out from intense Colorado heat and I’m looking to expand my strawberries using the runners.
Laura with Garden Answer took a Greenstalk & put it next to her SB greenstalk & brought the runners to the new greenstalk & planted. Haven’t seen an update, but she said she’d cut the runners once young plants established. 🍓
2nd year of having strawberries, mine have multiplied since last year growing in other parts of the garden and some growing on my patio. Brilliant video, now i know what to do with mine. Its now july 1st and strawberries have all been picked. Thank you
I was looking forward to some runners this year, but my plants looked a little spent after the initial berries so I put them in a sunnier spot, hit them with some organic fertilizer and some copper/neem oil spray, and have been pruning the older leafs while it regrows new from the crown. I'm not even worried about getting more strawberries, although I see a few flowers.
Yeah, some varieties are like that Jennifer. Some of mine just call it quits and won't send out runners, while a couple others will send out MORE runners the more spent they are. So weird! LOL
You are a wonderful, wonderful teacher. Love the way you pause in between, using a slower method for those that really want to take in what you are saying. Your pause method is off the chart outstanding. I am mesmerized with the way you explain everything and just taking your time. thank you we appreciate YOU.
Thank you for this new strawberry lesson. I’ve watched all your strawberry videos but I think this one might be the most helpful one yet 🥳. It’s been such an extreme summer here in south Texas that none of my June bearing varieties gave me any strawberries this year. The runners however have been abundant so in July I made the decision as a first time gardener to let them grow and expand my patch. Looking forward to seeing how many new plants we get. Thank you Jeff for the encouraging videos it really makes all the difference especially to a new gardener ☺️. I have a long 303 day growing season here but I’m excited to over winter my strawberries and see what next year will bring 🤞🥳🥰
Thanks Brittany, appreciate the support! I hear you on the heat. Seems to be an issue everywhere, even way up north here. When it gets too hot like that, the plants just go into survival mode.
this is what im planning next! Never had my own strawberry plant before, good to know you gotta trim them hah. don't want my porch looking like a jungle
Moved about 20 runners yesterday after watching your video, thx for the wisdom. I did mess up one of my melon plants though, started in 5 gallon buckets they grew to size, I topped up soil, ugh and added fertilizer. I guess I e got to much, . One of the four plants died too much love, the others were a little shocked but seem to be ok
@9:00 another method I use with small pots are clipping a binder clip to a side of the pot, then using garden wire tied to the clip posts and around the stem to firmly anchor into place.
I'm so excited! I just got some strawberries and just found out about this and the strawberries that I have are not make any strawberries but it's making a lot of runners. I'm Excited to use them to make more strawberries to hopefully make a strawberry garden 😋 thanks this exactly what I was looking for
only way my runners have survived and rooted was while connected to mother plant. cutting and placing in water/pots didn’t work for me. with your tips i will be trying those methods again, i think i see now where i was having issues. thanks for another great video :) also, love the idea with the paperclip! i have lost many runners this way too, they rooted but then shifted and roots would dry out. will be using the paperclip trick from now on.
Totally..and that's how it always happens. They root, send out delicate white roots, get shifted or moved and boom, runner is dead. Paper clip works darn near every time! :-) Best of luck!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms when you're bored (hahaha), I have a short on my videos called "Nature is Awesome", you might get a kick out of it. Hint, it features a strawberry runner!
I few months ago I was eating a strawberry on my porch when I noticed that the strawberry was way beyond ripped so I throughout on a pot mom has then I noticed a whole bunch of strawberry plants popin... now I know what to do with 'em... very good video very educational
This has been one of the best vids I've watched in saving and planting runners. My favorite strawberry is no longer available And, you are so right about not all runners live when you pot them. I dont have time to pot in the bed, so the water method makes complete sense to me! Did you use any type of rooting hormone in the water? Thank you for this vid!!!
Gotta grow with what works best for your garden! I've tried 18 varieties so far...I am undecided....but certainly some of the pink ones are more ornamental than tasty!
Hey, if you're brand new to gardening and you have no clue where to start, or maybe you've tried to grow in the past and didn't get the results you hoped for, I have a FREE online class just for you. A self-paced, video-based class called my 5 Keys To A Successful Vegetable Garden. Completely free, online video lesson with a fun quiz at the end! Check it out here: courses.theripetomatofarms.ca/courses/5Keys Get growing TODAY!
What if my strawberry plants (potted) are sending out huge amounts of runners (3-7 per WEEK) and the berries are small if they grow at all?
Could it be due to over watering?
My plants get 7-8hrs sunlight per day.
I'm just trying to grow some berries, but the plants seem like they are on a mission to take over the world.
@@Okunigger_Volker I've seen fertilizing with too much nitrogen cause excessive runner production. Also makes the berries small...
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms ahh.
Is there any way to reduce nitrogen naturally? Maybe by adding wood chips?
My older strawberry plants have formed tubers. You didn't cover this in your video. Working with tubers is a whole different technique. I add fresh compost to the raised beds each year, as the older compost volume decreases. I have two beds, each being one meter wide by six meters long and 500 mm deep. I pull out all plants in the spring and select the healthiest ones. I'm also trying to expand a few varieties that produce strawberries late in the season, that have a heart shape. Most of the plants produce very sweet round fruit in early summer, before the runners take over. I don't do much with runners during the growing season, just when I pull the plants. I save the healthy tubers and established plants. I'll save all clones of the ones I'm expanding. After topping off the bed with fresh compost, mainly from horse manure, I replant the selected ones in a grid like pattern. Do you have any thoughts about this?
Being a teacher myself, I want to commend you on your excellent teaching skills! Keep the lessons coming please!
Hey thanks Steven, that means a lot! Cheers!
What makes an enjoyably good UA-cam channel ???? Answer: The producer’s personality! You have it my man! In 66 years, I never knew much about strawberries until I watched your video . Thanks!!
Hey, too kind! Much appreciated, really. :-)
Would Peas(cascadia) grow with strawberries ?
This is one of the best videos on strawberry runners I have seen.
Thanks Mark, appreciate that man! 🙂
We have about 100' of strawberry beds, we expand the runners, weed diligently, and mulch every spring. But as soon as they have begun to ripen and I see the jam that is to come, the squirrels come from miles around to raid. We've tried netting of various kinds, completely enclosed them, but the squirrels just laugh and laugh as they get through it all and feast in broad daylight. Next year we're going to invest in diy hardware cloth boxes with wooden frames. We are serious this time. I wouldn't go to this much trouble for any other plant, but I want my strawberry utopia and I'm going to have it.
Ugghh...squirrels and birds. Raiders from above and from all sides! :-( You got this though! Let us know the progress!
Omg I feel this comment so much! I have pest trouble too 😂😂😂
A few 110 conibears baited with a strawberry or walnut and you won't have many squirrels left.
Do you have any owls you can set around them? We got two and mine are doing really good now .
Buy a cat or two
Thank you for this video. I learned so much. Now I know why my mother plant didn’t produce strawberries
Cheers Michelle, thanks for watching. Best of luck with the next batch! 🙂
Thank you. I planted one strawberry plant last year and this year it grows all over my garden. I didn't know that I have to cut the runners and replant. Thank you once again.
Ha ha on the plus side, now you'll have unlimited Strawberries! :-)
I couldnt find anything on youtube this informative
Thanks! 🙂
My strawberry plants have runners all over the place. I never knew they were a drain on the mother plants. This video was a great help for me to better manage my strawberries! Thanks!
This is the most informative strawberry tutorial I have seen. I ended up building cages for mine because of squirrels! First year harvest cost about 50 cents per berry. Summer, heat, fungus, Florida. I'll get better soon. Thanks Ken
Thanks so much Ken. Smart idea about the cages.....I've been lucky so far, but I know its only a matter of time before nature figures out how many berries are here, LOL! Cheers buddy. 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms let me know if you want photos of the cages. Is it possible to send them here?
@@kenbrown5217 I wish... Not even on the community tab unfortunately
I feel your pain, Ken! Florida can be brutal. Zone 10!
@@patriciatinkey2677 definitely next level sometimes Patricia!
Best UA-cam guide to strawberry propagation! Thanks!
Thanks Crystal! That means a lot!
Brilliant!! Thank you SO MUCH for this step by step video! EXACTLY what I needed! Now I SEE ( GREAT CAMERA WORK!) what I may have been doing wrong ( planting to deep, anchor wrong angle) what I did well and why ( keeping runner on mother while rooting) what I can try next! (Water method, anchors from vine!) So grateful, feeling more confident now...was about to give up!
I have them in a Greenstalk planter, vines don't always reach the pocket...but I can also try your pot method...if anyone has ideas how to attach or suspend a pot from the Greenstalk please share!
Don't give up sher! Definitely try the water method to get the hang of getting roots. Its all a timing thing. Keep them sheltered until they fully root, and then you're good to go!
@@shervin6711 Ha ha yeah, the pot method may be tough on that one. I'd try rooting them remotely as soon as you see root nodules.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms made the " sun" mistake too, planted a few in moist soil, then left the tray out in the sun, it was " only" about 4hrs...well..when I came home..it was 90..and about half the tray looked crispy... literally... I transferred them to our covered porch its been a few weeks, thought the crispy ones were goners...but when I pulled one out ( no anchors) it had new growth in center! Can't believe they *might* make it! Lol
@@shervin6711 oh been there! So many mistakes with these guys. Thankfully they keep producing so we can try again!
Love it, "To reach that strawberry utopia, you've always dream off". That's me
What a frickin great video. I was just about to do this with my strawberry plants, they’re going crazy! Just needed a little jog of my memory but ended up knowing even more ways to plant the daughter plants! Thank you for such great informative videos! ❤
I'm just about to root some strawberry runners and was going to leave them attached and pinned into pots. Having seen you demonstrate it I'm going to use your water rooting method instead. Thank you for the time and effort you repeatedly give to the production of your videos.
Try both if you can. Once you get the hang of it, its much easier to nip them off and root them elsewhere...but the pinned pot method is good too and ALWAYS reliable. I would say try both at first if you can. Let us know how it goes!
Me too!
Very helpful. I have wild fragaria virginiana in my back yard apparently seeded by birds on a wood chip pile. I want to maximize their cultivation and I just learned some very important things about how to do that.
Oh nice! Have you got berries from them yet?
Awesome vid. You are one of my TOP 5 go to gardening channels to learn info. 😊 Thanks
Thanks so much C C! Its ALWAYS appreciated!
Brilliant video cuz. First time growing strawberries here and watching so many vids trying to get diffinative information. Finally! Thankyou! ❤
Thanks for that Nic, means a lot. Best of luck with your berries!
I collected around 400 runners 2 years ago. 300 went in at my farm. The whitetail took them all. The rest basically went in a garden i did for a friend. A few were handed out to a couple of other friends.
I struggled to come close to that last season. But i saved all but 5.
Starting fresh with the additional white Pineberry. They are growing great. My reds are struggling.
Really appreciate the detail you went into about rooting them and showing the different wants to do it. Thank you!
Thanks Kyaide, glad you liked!
Same here. He did a great job for being informative👍
Not sure what happened to my message, so sending it again. You are an amazing teacher. Love your slower method of explaining and pausing. Just amazing!
That is the most informative strawberry guide I've seen. Thank you!!!💓
Thanks mate this is the best video I've seen on this subject and I've seen a few.
@@paulwilliam9180 hey Paul, kind of you to say man! Cheers.
Definitely have some work to do on my bed this week. Very informative video!
@@ohoulihoop happy to help! Hope it's been a good year for the berries!
So glad you posted this video. I planted some strawberries last month, and one plant had 2 runners already! They are now in little pots and hopefully I will get 2 more plants.
This presentation is excellent 👍. Thank you so much for giving us all the information we need to grow beautiful strawberry 🍓
Really appreciate the advice in this video. I overhauled a horribly overgrown and under-producing strawberry bed last fall and replanted 44 healthy parent plants back in the space, giving each plant at least 6" of room all around. The transplants took well before cold weather set in(zone 6). I was thinking I would remove all runners(stolons) from the plants as soon as I see them growing this year so all energy would go into producing blossoms and berries. Your advice reinforces my plan of action. :)
Thank you, that was a very well done video that was informative. I really like that you didnt rush it and even came back at the end to recap all the information.
One day I may start doing videos too, and your channel is definitely an inspiration
Hey thanks so much! You definitely should do videos on your passion. Let us know if you do, we'll check it out!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks, I really appreciate the kind words of encouragement. I'll definitely let you know if I do finally put something out there.
@@letsgrowveganic3889 for sure, the more knowledge being spread around the better!
This video was so helpful. I found 4 strawberry plants growing in my compost patch...that now is 7....and they now producing runners....was only winging it what do with the runners...now....those 7 will be 12!!! Im running out of room...but worth it. Strawberries arent cheap here in Australia, especially large sweet good quality ones.
@@LOLHSV excellent! Love expanding them for free! Best of luck with the harvests!
I finally have four thriving strawberry plants. Going to try and overwinter them in the bed they are in. Gathering as much of your info as possible.
Best of luck vicky!! :-)
This has to be the best video on strawberries. This is my first year growing them and you have given me all the information I needed, and easy to understand. Great thanks 😊
Strawberries are soooo clever 😍 can’t wait to get outside in the morning and start planting runners :) maybe that means next year I’ll get more strawberries :)
Strawberries EVERYWHERE Louise! :-)
Thanks Jeff! I had such a disappointing experience when I tried strawberries years ago, that I had never tried again! Now I could, with your great teaching! 🙂🙂🙂
I hope you do try again Patricia! :-)
Thank you. I've four plants, putting out two or three runners. Was going to save half, and compost the rest. This video came just in time, inspiring me to save them all!👍
Very cute video. Thank you.
@@parvathitiruviluamala9870 cheers!
A brilliant video , perfect in every little detail
@@anthonyamos4016 thanks Anthony, appreciate it man!
This video is SO helpful. Thanks man.
@@Sethyfisher that's awesome Seth, happy to help!
Such a great video. Definitely informative.
@@Solodolobbq thanks Brian, much appreciated!
Thank you for this!! I have everbearing & June berry plants that I grow every year. I've been just letting the daughter plants expand themselves out, but I couldn't figure out why my yield has been so low. Now I know!
Love your guides! Everything about this video is calm and informative. Thanks! :)
Thanks so much Cindy, really kind of you to say!
You do a great job of teaching this subject. Like other commenters, I just needed a little reminder about the runner situation. Watching your video gave me so much more. Thank you and well done.😀
Thanks for saying that Wendy! Happy to help!
I fall asleep to his videos and then wake up at 5 am and put his garden tips to work. 🍓
Ha ha oh no, I hope they aren't that boring!
Great information! Nicely presented and easy to understand.
You are a great teacher and I find the close-ups helpful! I feel confident to go out and do this. Thankyou!
@@leslieh2945 Thanks Leslie! Hope the garden is growing great this year!
Your presentation is very calming and informative. Thank you
Thanks Jan, appreciate you! :-)
This is an incredibly informative video...I have bene gifted some strawberry plants with me just coming back from vacation I was welcomed with my first runner! This has helped greatly
Thank you so much for this video. This is the first year my strawberries didn’t dry out from intense Colorado heat and I’m looking to expand my strawberries using the runners.
Right on Cathy! Best of luck rooting them and expanding your patch!
Laura with Garden Answer took a Greenstalk & put it next to her SB greenstalk & brought the runners to the new greenstalk & planted. Haven’t seen an update, but she said she’d cut the runners once young plants established. 🍓
2nd year of having strawberries, mine have multiplied since last year growing in other parts of the garden and some growing on my patio. Brilliant video, now i know what to do with mine. Its now july 1st and strawberries have all been picked. Thank you
Great video with plenty of tips on how to expand your strawberry plants. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
I was looking forward to some runners this year, but my plants looked a little spent after the initial berries so I put them in a sunnier spot, hit them with some organic fertilizer and some copper/neem oil spray, and have been pruning the older leafs while it regrows new from the crown. I'm not even worried about getting more strawberries, although I see a few flowers.
Yeah, some varieties are like that Jennifer. Some of mine just call it quits and won't send out runners, while a couple others will send out MORE runners the more spent they are. So weird! LOL
What a great video!!!
Exactly what I was needing to know and you explained it so well.
Thank you!!
Thanks! Glad to help!
You are a wonderful, wonderful teacher. Love the way you pause in between, using a slower method for those that really want to take in what you are saying. Your pause method is off the chart outstanding. I am mesmerized with the way you explain everything and just taking your time. thank you we appreciate YOU.
Thank you so.much. I have runners but didn't know what they were for or what to do with them. Now I do. Grest video!
Hey thanks Eunice, and thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! I don't think anyone else has explained it so well 😊
Cheers christy, hope it helps!
Thank you. Very informative and to the point
Very thorough video! All productive time spent for learning and potential success gardening strawberries.
Thank you; good teacher.
Thanks so much. I appreciate the kind words and support! :-)
Thank you so interesting learnt so much 😊
Happy to hear that Delia. :-)
Excellent tutorial, thank you very much.
Cheers Josie, thanks so much for watching! :-)
I appreciate you so much 😊
Thanks Marat! :-)
You are a great teacher. I like your close-up shots. For this reason I am subscribing for more knowledge. Thank you so much.
Perfect timing. Great video.
Fantastic video very informative thank you now l know what to do with Strawberry runners..
Cheers, thanks for watching! :-)
The paperclip is great advice!! Thanks!great video!😁
Thanks Melanie.....it really does work!
Thanks to show this part on strawberries. it help me to do better with them
Thank you for this new strawberry lesson. I’ve watched all your strawberry videos but I think this one might be the most helpful one yet 🥳. It’s been such an extreme summer here in south Texas that none of my June bearing varieties gave me any strawberries this year. The runners however have been abundant so in July I made the decision as a first time gardener to let them grow and expand my patch. Looking forward to seeing how many new plants we get. Thank you Jeff for the encouraging videos it really makes all the difference especially to a new gardener ☺️. I have a long 303 day growing season here but I’m excited to over winter my strawberries and see what next year will bring 🤞🥳🥰
Thanks Brittany, appreciate the support! I hear you on the heat. Seems to be an issue everywhere, even way up north here. When it gets too hot like that, the plants just go into survival mode.
this is what im planning next! Never had my own strawberry plant before, good to know you gotta trim them hah. don't want my porch looking like a jungle
Wow! The best tutorial and All about Strawberry Planting. Wish I viewed your video before I cut the runners 🥲
You're simply one of the best on UA-cam. Thank you!!
Moved about 20 runners yesterday after watching your video, thx for the wisdom. I did mess up one of my melon plants though, started in 5 gallon buckets they grew to size, I topped up soil, ugh and added fertilizer. I guess I e got to much, . One of the four plants died too much love, the others were a little shocked but seem to be ok
How's the drainage in the buckets Timothy? Often you can "wash" the nutrients out and save the plant if its not too late...
Great info...my strawberry patch stopped producing and now I know why and how to make new plants.
This is a great video! Very informative. Thank you so much.
Hey, thanks Mary, and thanks for watching! :-)
@9:00 another method I use with small pots are clipping a binder clip to a side of the pot, then using garden wire tied to the clip posts and around the stem to firmly anchor into place.
Jeff your chanel is the best!!! I'm learning so much. Thankyou Thankyou 👍 😁🥰
Thanks so much linda!!! :-)
Loved this one, thank you for sharing the information
@@sowmyar9108 cheers, glad you liked!
Great video! I've been waiting for a good instruction video on strawberry runners.
I'm so excited! I just got some strawberries and just found out about this and the strawberries that I have are not make any strawberries but it's making a lot of runners. I'm Excited to use them to make more strawberries to hopefully make a strawberry garden 😋 thanks this exactly what I was looking for
only way my runners have survived and rooted was while connected to mother plant. cutting and placing in water/pots didn’t work for me. with your tips i will be trying those methods again, i think i see now where i was having issues. thanks for another great video :) also, love the idea with the paperclip! i have lost many runners this way too, they rooted but then shifted and roots would dry out. will be using the paperclip trick from now on.
Totally..and that's how it always happens. They root, send out delicate white roots, get shifted or moved and boom, runner is dead. Paper clip works darn near every time! :-) Best of luck!
Well, I know what is now on my task list in the next couple days if the weather cools down! Thanks for all guidance.
Ha ha no problem! :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms when you're bored (hahaha), I have a short on my videos called "Nature is Awesome", you might get a kick out of it. Hint, it features a strawberry runner!
I did the paperclip thing before even seeing this! I am rooting a bunch of them to give to friends.
Your videos are always so very helpful. Thanks a bunch! ❤ 🍓
You're an excellent teacher!
Excelent guide, congratulations!
Great video! I learned so much. Thank you for sharing this!.
Cheers Debra! Happy to help!
Just learned a ton! Wow, so much info in one video. This was great, thanks! 🍓🍓
Love the detail that I really needed. New subscriber.
Thanks darlene, and thanks for the support!
Great tutorial. Thank you!
Hey thanks Grant, and thanks for watching!
I few months ago I was eating a strawberry on my porch when I noticed that the strawberry was way beyond ripped so I throughout on a pot mom has then I noticed a whole bunch of strawberry plants popin... now I know what to do with 'em... very good video very educational
Brilliant presentation ❤️
Awesome video....thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Cheers, thanks for watching! :-)
Awesome videos man. Learning lots! Thanks!
Thanks, happy to hear! :-)
Best instructional videos ever! Thank you so much!
This has been one of the best vids I've watched in saving and planting runners. My favorite strawberry is no longer available And, you are so right about not all runners live when you pot them. I dont have time to pot in the bed, so the water method makes complete sense to me!
Did you use any type of rooting hormone in the water?
Thank you for this vid!!!
After trying every flower colour for the best strawberry it's the white flowered variety that seems to be the best quality.
Gotta grow with what works best for your garden! I've tried 18 varieties so far...I am undecided....but certainly some of the pink ones are more ornamental than tasty!
Awesome informative video. Thank you!
Thanks Wilson! And thanks for watching!
I was gifted a tiny strawberry runner with root buds and look forward to trying to grow berries
Right on, that's how it all starts
Just what I needed!
Cheers Omar! 🙂
This video was very informative. I learned so so much. Thank you.
My strawberries " quickly became problematic"
Thanks for the great info. Planning for a better strawberry patch next season! 👍❤️👍
Thank you that was very informative . . .I like the paper clip and leaving 1" of runner :)
Thanks! If you have the room for it, that's definitely the best method. :-)