Early this spring, I dug up a dozen strawberry plants that were growing into a friend’s driveway. I potted half of them, and started the other half in the ground in a designated spot I had worked up. As the potted plants sent out runners, I pinned them down and propagated them in seedling pots. I got an average of one daughter from each mother already, and each of the mother plants in the ground have sent out at least one to two runners that I pinned down as well. In just about 2 months time, I went from 12 plants to 27. One of the mother plants produced a ripe berry already with three more developing that I will probably nip off just so the plant can get more established for next year. I have two other patches of strawberries already, they (and rhubarb) can almost make anybody believe they are successful at gardening.

I have a plant nursery, and have done the 4" pot method for years. After the new strawberry plant roots, I just left it attacked, and it would send out another runner from the daughter. I would have four to five nee plants from one runner. I would usually have 30 to forty new plants from the mother. Joking, I would call it networking.

Do you grow asparagus? I grow it in a 4X4 raised bed and I actually use strawberries as a ground cover crop in between the rows. Since strawberries produce berries right around the time I'm done harvesting asparagus for the year, the two do really well together. The other reason strawberries work well as a ground cover is because they have shallow roots so they don't interfere with the asparagus, which are deep rooted.

Really curious plants, I love that trick of catching the runner in another pot!

Thank you

Great information as always, thanks.

I transplanted mine into a greenstalk every other pocket every other level,,, runners are going to fill this up this year.

Nice video. Not all strawberries have runners though? Ive seen ones listed as runnerless.

Nice and informative 👍 I've actually been considering getting a couple of strawberry plants for my balcony. I'm gonna remember to look for plants that have runners then for some free extra plants 😄How do you see if the runners have rooted or not? Will they start growing more/bigger leaves or do you have to "dig around" to see if they rooted?

They can be just too much. They can really take over a garden.

Thank you