As I mentioned on an earlier post (Our Strawberries are Here), most of our strawberries are now 4 years old and need replacing.  I’ve got about 5 strawberry plants in pots that I found rooted in the ground this spring (from last years runners), and I’m propagating my own strawberries from these.  It’s always best to use the runners from healthy young plants, and these have thrown out some lovely strawberry runners.  Where a little leaf has formed, I’ve pegged them down with some bent wire so that the runner beneath the bottom of the leaf is touching the soil in a pot.  I know they’ve thrown out some good roots, because here’s one that got knocked over!
I’m hoping to get enough strawberry plants so that I can replace all the old ones.  So far it’s looking good.  Our strawberry plants are a late season variety called Symphony.  The plan is to get some more runners later in the year for varieties that fruit at different times.  That way we should be able to have our own strawberries for most of the summer.  Here’s part of my “strawberry nursery”.  As you can see, strawberry plants are very keen to self-propagate!