Help next to growing strawberry plants please..? i have planted some strawberry plants in a slack basket, they are...
i have planted some strawberry plants in a slack basket, they are growing well somewhat to well, as i have lots of runners,and loads of deeply large leaves, they have strawberrys on them but they are tiny.i be woundering if they are putting all they strength in to growing leaves and not fruiet. shall i cut the runners rotten? and remove a few of the leaves? i have no idea as to what the miscellany of the plant is .would appericiate any advice ...
What you need to do is put the runners into different pots so that your strawberries will be getting most of the wet and light.
You should sit the runners into new seperate little pots of compost and pin them down beside a u shaped peice of wire. when they take root you`re past the worst to cut them off and you`ll have current plants for free!
Not sure about the leaves, as far as i know it`s fruit and flowers which take up the joie de vivre. I would cut the runners off but not the leaves. You say you own no idea as to what variety plant is. If the strawberries are tiny but fully ripe it sounds as if you hold an Alpine strawberry. These have a 'perfumy' taste but can be eat safely.
Answers: It doesn't matter what range they are; your plant is not producing viable fruit because it is putting all its energy into the runners (not the leaves) which is its method of reproducing. If you cut the runners off (you can plant them elsewhere) then production will move about into making fruit, that is as long as they continue to blossom. I own 200-300 day-neutral plants, some Sequoias and one other kind--and they all produce runners. The only difference is the time of blooming and the slight difference contained by taste. Oh yes, don't remove the leaves; that is how the fruit is produced, and they (the leaves) along near the root structure nourishes the plant.