How to Grow Strong Strawberry Plants by pinching runners and blossoms

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Growing strawberries takes patience. If you have the patience stop the plant from fruiting the first year and to cut down all runners, years 2 through 4 will give you a tremendous yield of delicious home grown strawberries. Watering tips, mold issues are also discussed.

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so for the winter I just cover them with straw?

Thank you. This was really useful.

What region do you live at? I'm in the mountains in central California and I have strawberries for the first time. I'd like to know what kind of special care you gave them if any necessary during winter? Thanks!

Awesome tips!

Hey, @4:10 when he said that he stuck them in pots....would he do that while it is still attached to the main stock or did he cut them off and put it in the pot?

Very interesting, thank you. Subbed!

OMFG!! What's wrong with this frickin video!? Everything else I open plays fine but this 1 only loads about 4 seconds and refuses to load any more..... I've tried several times!!

in the Philippines we grow strawberry in our backyard planted in recycled bottled water, it grows and yield fruits. this way can easily transfer to a protected area during typhoon and flood. I think the idea is also applicable in some other places like in non tropic one.

Great video. The step by step help to take notes. I am growing 6 plants in my last years' Straw bales garden. Even though Straw bales sometimes stay moist., I am planing putting a layer of plastic (like collar) around the based to prevent leaves getting wet. What do you think?

Or you could grow the plant for a year. Harvest the berries. The start again with a new plant.

I got 3 plants I grew from seeds this is still their first year and they already begun to flower. Do I cut the runners and flowers or can I position the runners to grow around their parents since I want more plants. Also I live in Florida so I don't know if that's a factor or anything.

If I move, can I dig it out and replant them elsewhere in between the first and second year? Or should I just keep them in a pot if I'm not sure if I'm moving? Thanks

What do u do in the winter for the strawberry between first and second year? Leave them out there? And they revive in the summer on its own?

I am in Northwest Indiana. I have made several 1/12' X 6' raised beds, and I intent to devote one of those beds to strawberries. And I do have the patients to wait a year or so to actually see berries. Problem is, (and this happened to me last year--2015--with some I had in the ground and some I had in pots) here in NW IN, we get about 2 feet of snow that stays on the ground from late Nov. sometimes to mid March!
So, question: How do you protect the plants during our winter?? Keep in mind that I have co-workers who have told me that they do NOTHING, but the berries come back every year---mine didn't, and I tried covering them with a layer of red mulch.
Thanks

do 6ou think strawberries can grow in the caribbean i wawato start growing it I broufht one plant I saw real expensive

i saw runners,an awaiting to plant it as a plant will that produce fruit too

i saw a plant here an brought it I am in the xaribbean an we new to it will it grow an produce I want taet a project we impoit so 8 can get plants from it,an mulyipke it

Great info could you tell me about my strewberrys in pots and guttering I have found vine weevil in mine any info I live in the UK cheers

What do you do when winter comes around