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strawberry plants

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faringdon59 Sun 24-Oct-21 12:17:17

Back in the Summer I purchased 3 cheap strawberry plants and put them in a hanging basket.
During the one week heatwave we had in July they got totally scorched.
So I removed them from the basket, cut them right back and put them in a pot.
They came back well, produced loads of pink flowers, however too late in the year to produce fruit.
But now this morning I've been out in the garden tidying up and just wondering should I cut them back and leave them in the pot?

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NfkDumpling Sun 24-Oct-21 15:13:09

I'd leave them be. Any late flowers will help bees and insects as the season seems to be stretching and the growth there is will protect the plants over winter.

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Visgir1 Sun 24-Oct-21 16:56:58

Leave them and if they have runners, with baby leaves, use wire or something to "Pin" them into a small pot if soil still attached to the mother plant, wait for them to root and you have an plant. Cut away from main plant and plant next season.

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karmalady Wed 16-Mar-22 06:43:24

I love those patio strawberries, I now have several different varieties with pink or red flowers. They produced big lovely strawberries right into autumn. I started with a total of 12 and now have 74 thriving plants, have chosen to grow them in all my troughs instead of annuals this year. I have self-watering troughs and the plants pull up the moisture that they need

I just divide them, pull them apart and usually get three plants from one plant, I then change some of the soil and re-plant. I keep spares rammed together in a couple of pots, these plants are very strong and survive. I have grown strawberries for years and these small plants are by far the best for disease and insect resistance

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