My one tip for BIG Strawberries! 

30 yrs ago I bought 2-6 pks of strawberries before the internet was in every house hold. Via an article in a gardening book I learned to plant the 1 yr old mother plant and to not allow the fruit to set but to snip off the blooms. Use a bright piece of yard or those piled up bread twist ties select the bright yellow or orange ones and place them around the base of each mother. Allow the runners to grow, root and mature. Depending on where you live 6 to 8 weeks before nightly temps are 32* transplant those runner babies on the other end of the strawberry bed(s). The next year allow the mother plants to set fruit but remove all runners as soon as you see them. Then the following years those original mother plants will produce huge berries, just keep removing the runners. Now you have those babies on the other end of the patch. Do the same thing with those the following year. Select one color per years worth of growth so not to mix them up and write on an index card whats what. The 2nd yr plants can then be moved closer to the original mothers and keep those runners snipped. After about 4 to 5 yrs start to replace the oldest mothers as many feel they start producing less fruits as they age. Have fun and gt down and dirty in the garden...!

For those reading this and if she doesn't mention this in the video, it is vitally important to use runners to get new plants but restrict this effort to one or two plants as needed. A strawberry plant will produce for 3-5 years and then its production falls off.

"Runners" are daughters. Keep the mother and get rid of the daughters. Replace the mother with new daughters every 3 -4 years.

I push the end into a 3 in pot for 5 days and let it send a root down before I clip it of the mother. I've found that any longer than 5 days and you wont get as big of berries. This is the way I ve found to get the best of both. I have allstars and quinault and this has worked for both for me

“Nothing beats home grown berries” I agree 100%!

Excellent video, thank you! Now I'm all set to grow my strawberries.😋❤️

Thanks for making the video lady 👍🏽👍🏽

You explained that so well. Thank you.

Thank you this is some helpful advice. Your garden lookds beautiful

Great tip. Now I know why I had so many new plants and small, not so sweet berries. Thank you.

Glad I stumbled upon this video. AMAZING! I’m getting ready to start my first indoor and outdoor grow so it was great to see what a runner looks like and how to encourage strawberries to grow as large as possible on the mother plant. Thank you.

I planted a dozen Quinalts in March. They became 100 plants, but I saw no fruit until this month(November)...three small strawberries. Wish I had known your trick. There’s always next year. 🙂 Thank you.

Thanks for sharing your tip 😊

Thanks for sharing such a great tip👏🏽keep up the good work fellow gardener 👍🏽

Very helpful video! Thank u ❤️

You’re strawberries are huge & they look so AH-MAZING!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Great Tip. Thanks for sharing

Wow! Thank you SO MUCH for that amazing tip! It's brilliant! I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and pinch or cut off the runners from my strawberries! And each time I do, I will be thanking you. I just can't believe that no one has ever thought of this before now. God Bless!

Thank you for sharing

easy and so effective !!! thank you

Thanks for sharing

First time on your channel. Great video! Very clear explanation. I’ll be pinching off the runners we get this season. Thanks!

Pretty cool!😊

Good tip, thanks!

Awesome thanks for that! I'll try it on my strawberry plants 👍👍🙏🇭🇲🇭🇲🇭🇲

The slope of your yard is great. My last residence had that slope and everything I planted in that low area did the best. I guess wetness is good.

First year growing strawberries here! Have little day neutral strawberries that are just starting to form! I pinched the buds until beginning of this month and they are flowering like crazy!

Awesome tip!

Thanks for shareing

Thank you for the tip.

I ordered ever berries this year and they're planted they look so healthy. I definitely needed to know this tip I'll just pick the runners and start new plants give them away lol

We are in Bellingham Wa and are starting a garden 🪴 this year. Thanks for the tips :)

Thank you!!! I’m so glad I came across this video! I planted 50 bareroot strawberries in March/April and they are all smaller strawberries now that they are producing and tons of runners are coming! Now I know how to get big strawberries!!! Yay!!!

Thanks for sharing...we tried to grow strawberry in the tropic where it is green all the year round... removing runners and some leaves are essential..to increase the yield and size of the berries.

For anyone reading when removing the runners it actually works way easier to just push down instead of pinching off. The whole section would get removed with ease

Hi, just found your channel🤗 subscribed! Lovely garden and looking forward to more of your videos.

Thanks for the tip.. 💕

Tq very much for ur kind information🤩❤

awesome!! I love this news thank you!

Good to know - thanks for sharing

Nice shRing my friend

Good, good information.

Wow amazing 👍🥰

I love your garden 💞💞💞

Great tip. I prune mine and I replant the stem.

We just moved to this new house last fall. Previously, my strawberries were attacked by slugs, snails and birds before we ever got fruit to eat. Now, we are in a drier climate and will be purchasing my new berries within the month. This nice tip comes in perfect timing with the onset of gardening season. Thank you. 6:47

So nice 😍 home grown is so satisfying 🤩😍

Very good 👌 👍 👏

Those plants look very healthy

I tried cutting my runners off and rooting them with hormone and it works, so you let the mother focus on berries and at the same time you can make more plants.

Thanks, its very obvious but never thought of doing this

Great video thanks

Awesome ❤

Thank you! This is my first year gardening so I’m not expecting fruit until next year, but I’ll make sure to remember to do this!

Plants look great, thanks for the tip. I can't wait to eat strawberries from my indoor grow room. Animals always eat mine outdoors, so I am going to try indoors🙃

Awesome! I'm going to go out and do this tomorrow morning. My strawberries are fairly small.

This is really awesome info and easily understood. I,m giving strawberry planting another try.

Nice job

yummi yummi, never neglect strawberries.

Great vid

Thank you so much for this video! Just an additional tip for those having trouble getting bigger berries .. it may be to do with pollination. If - like me - you live in 'the 'burbs' rather than out in the country, you may be noticing a decline in pollinator populations. Try planting flowering, pollinator attracting plants such as marigolds around/within your strawberry patches (mine are in hanging pots). If the time to do this has passed, then get yourself a soft-bristled paint-brush and hand pollinate your flowers, from the outside in towards the centre of the flower. If you have the time to do this daily (for a few pots of plants like I have), then great! Otherwise, you can get away with doing this every 3-4 days. Strawberry flowers are self-pollinating (meaning even just one flower can fertilize itself to produce a fruit as it has both male and female flower parts). However, some help from you may be needed. Brush from the outside (male parts) of the flower to the inside (female part*s*). For the size of the fruit to be maximized to its capacity, *each* female part needs to be pollinated. Hope this helps as an addition to the great info in this video!

Thanks For This! More please! Also

Hi friend. I got strawberries un march and they are growing again. I told you I was going to do my best and I did It.

Oh my gosh! Your berries look AMAZING and big. I know the flavor is off the chart. Enjoy!!

I started a strawberry plant in a pot this year. Let's see if it grows big after I plug off a runner. Thanks for the tip.

Thank you

Thank You

Thank you! I've always been great at growing strawberry plants but lacking on the actual strawberries lol

I use the runners for propagation but I can see why allowing them to develop can divert the plant's energy.

hi sanctuary gardens 🤗 this video came across my feed and im so glad it did. im actually watching you on my tv and laptop 🤣😂 i have strawberries and will definitely try this idea the next time i renovate my patch (your video im watching on tv). i'm in zone 10. i'm not sure where you are, but i'm going to watch more of your videos to see what i can learn and what may work in my raised beds. where do you get your straw? tfs

I only grow Everbearing Strawberries because I prefer them producing throughout the summer. Right now, my bed is new, and I want more plants, so I am leaving the runners. Once I have all the plants I want, I fully intend on pinching those runners. Maybe I'll keep a few and start a few for my friends to have and to freshen my stock every few years.

Thanks I just saw one of those runners on my strawberries so off it comes

Ty!

thank you

It's so good I want variety it ❤️

My older kiddo asked if you would share some with us, ha ha! Beautiful berries!! Need to go out and pluck my runners now.

Very nice~ How long have those strawberry plants been in the garden beds? To save the clipped runners, put them in water, with the torn off end in the water and keep the growing tip out of the water but still resting on the water, and they will form roots.

Thanks

Thank you for that

Hola, I AM from Habana. This is the first time I grow strawberries. I think I AM going to have a beautiful plant and good fruits. You know the climate here is not the best to grow but I Will try. I Will do my best.

I often place the tiny runner plants in a small pot of potting soil while still connected to the mother. After it roots, I snip the umbilical cord. Then I can move the new baby wherever I want.

Around here, the Mt. Hood strain of strawberries are smaller, but boy are they delicious.

I like what you did and that’s a great idea, but the runners can also be soaked in water and make another plant and possibly sell them. And definitely use a scissors. You were really fighting there to pinch that off you can use a small scissors.

Last year I bought 3 plants and didnt know to prune off the runners. I didnt get ANY berries. However this year i took all those new plants i replanted in a more suitable area and ive got sooo many berries coming in.

My strawberries are loaded... heading out right now to do this!!!!

Your strawberries are beautiful

going with seascape in hanging bags this year

Had to ff to the relevant part... time is valuable.

This is my first year growing strawberries. I happened to see them at a nursery and decided to give them a try. Right now I have them in a planter, but I know I need something bigger and I do have a runner. I will snip it and put it in water until the roots start showing. Thank you for this video. It was very helpful. I have a small strawberry growing. How do I determine when they need to be picked?

This is very interesting. I grow strawberries commercially (we have about 10 million plants this year) and most of the advice I see on the youtubes is utterly ludicrous. This however, is not. We only keep our plants for one season, and we go to great lengths to cut the runners off early in the year so the crowns grow bigger and the plant sets more, larger fruit. There may or may not be an obscene amount of Calcium and Potassium Nitrate and Magnesium Sulphate involved. Towards the end of the season though, we start letting runners take root and cut them from the mother plant. We put them in trays and that becomes some of next year's plants.

Those sweet dogs!

Hi I love your dogs they are very cute 😊😁

I am not perfect. But my strawberry plants are getting real good fertilized soil, rain and sunlight and when ever the mini plant grows I cut them all together and plant them. I started having them all from a single plant.

TLDW: Prune off runners from the strawberry plant.

Wow. Nice plants. What variety are these? thanks

I'm very glad I stumbled across your RU-vid channel. I'm just now establishing a rock Garden Wich I'm in the process of turning into a strawberry bed. I'm also planting a few blueberry plants in the center of the Garden to make the most use of the space hopefully the two types of plants aren't to counter productive growing together. You seem to very knowledgeable and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos. Keep up the good work. If your reading this I do have a question. Can you plant ever bearing strawberries with June Bearing in the same bed with out any real issues?

Beautiful garden, lush plants can tell you put a lot of care in them. I'm thinking of moving mine all to a raised bed, I wanted to rotate plants this year anyways. Do you find the raised bed easier to manage all the runners? Mine really over took my exterior flower beds this year through the fence line and I think it's time for more boundaries, and easier to put netting. Thanks!

Hi there. Thanks for a great video. I have started growing strawberries from seed that I collected from strawberries that I bought. It has been three years now and I am really getting great strawberries. I was quite shocked when I saw some of my strawberries being about three fingers wide. I never knew what caused them to be so large but I was very excited. I have five questions. How often should strawberries be replanted and what soil mix do you suggest I use, what could I add to the soil to produce sweet strawberries and how often do you use fertilizer if any, and what type? Your assistance will be appreciated.

I am starting a small raised bed of 2x4 ft . I was going to plant everglow and Seascape plants . Any idea if this small space will produce much fruit ? About how much in quarts ? June strawberry short cake for family of 5 , and fresh picked till sept. Let mrnknow what you think Thank ypu

Those are the best looking homegrown strawberries I have ever seen. When did you put the straw down?