The Easy Formula to Grow More Strawberries 

Really put effort into finding the perfect spot for them and they grow like weeds. Delicious juicy weeds.

Fantastic video, Ben! I have been gardening all my life and love watching your channel. Not only are you an excellent gardener, but you're also a knowledgeable educator. Your presence in front of the camera is done professionally and with great thoroughness. You're a natural!

I've found over the years that mulching with Pine Tree Needles makes the Strawberries even sweeter. They love the acid in the pine needles 😊 From New Zealand.

You have no idea how much you inspire me. I have a small space but the food that I'm getting out of it is amazing. Thank you so much your videos are exciting, straight to the point and easy to follow. Much love from Cape Town South Africa❤

I love watching your videos. I have just ordered 25 eversweet everbearing crowns. I think I learned a lot from your 6 videos about strawberries. Previously I have tried to grow strawberries with not a lot of success. Now I know to cut the runners, water and feed a lot more, how close I can plant them and so much more. I really hope I have more luck this coming year. I really like to read other people"s comments and notices that you answer them all. Wow. I have never seen that before in all the videos I watch. Keep up the good work and videos. Thank you.

I wanted to get Everbearing but nursery only had June berries. This was my first year growing strawberries. Got 4 plants in early May ( didn't realized until watching I should have clipped runners) but as to date I have about 20 additional plants as a result of the runners!

21 years ago, I bought 6 plants, 2 each of early, mid & late season fruits. Before I got them in the ground, my cat had mixed them up. Not knowing which was which, I didn't bother keeping the labels. Never mind, I brought a selection of plants with me when I moved 12 years ago, and now have so many that I could fill the allotment completely with them! I get fruit from early June till late July, although this morning I spotted some more ripening. (Though I doubt if the blackbird will share them with me, now the cover is off the fruit cage!) I do fill out the season with alpine strawberries, as these also freeze well, giving my winter fruit salad a summer lift.

I just did my winter 'renovation' of my strawberries and ended up with two wheelbarrows full of rooted runners, I make a point of replacing about 1/3 of the established plants each year as few strawberries will bear well for more than 3 years.

Symphony has lovely big berries with lovely flavour. I grow mine in deep, discarded fish containers. They are easy to drill for drainage. I then sit them on trestles. This stops the slugs, A bit of net over the top keeps birds off. All I need is sun. Unlike rest of UK, this corner of Scotland has had a vert wet, cool summer.

My Dad explained how to propagate from strawberry runners a long while ago. It wasn’t until I started a patch that I really understood what he told me. Your demo was full of good tips, like making and using the clips. Waiting for daylight so I can get to it! 😊🍓🍓

You can use regular bobby pins or the U-pin type of bobby pins to hold your runners down as well. That's what I use on some of my indoor plants that put out "babies" like the spider plant.

Thank you Ben this has been most helpful. Looks like I've a busy afternoon ahead chasing and pinning my runners 😉

What brilliant advice . Now I know how to really get those runners to root! Brilliant thank you 😊

Thanks for your exactly prepared videos . I learn a lot for my work in the garden and nearby I improve my English because of your clear pronounciation and the undertitles. It helps me enormously and it's just fun. COMPLIMENT ! Regards and SERVUS from Bine/Austria

Brilliant advice as usual so glad I found your channel last year keep up the great content 👍

I’m currently in the process of doing 3 beds of strawberries, each one will have plants that are a year apart from the other,so just replace the 3 year old plants with runners.thanks Ben 👍

Great info there, going to start growing some next year so this has been great to watch. Can't wait for the currents and thingy's next vid.

Thanks again for the tips. I planted 3 strawberries last year and I am thrilled to see they survived the winter. I’ll be potting up their runners for sure!

Thank you for another great and informative video Ben . If I only had room to grow one variety it would be Mara Du Bois which is an ever bearing variety. It is a relatively small shorter leafed plant and it produces strawberries for months. Yes the early ones are lovely but have a short cropping season. Mara De Bois keeps going until the first frosts and I am still picking a tray full every other day and the plants are full of flowers. The sizes of them vary but I don’t mind. They are sweet and continuous. I know this is pretty unbelievable but one of this years runners has flowered and produced some fruit and it hasn’t even rooted yet!

Thanks for the info. I had planted runners many years ago… too many..😵‍💫years… lol. I just started a new strawberry patch this year,so I appreciate the reminder!!!!! God Bless you and yours!!

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🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻 watched this after your new berry vid! Thanks Ben!!

Really enjoy your videos very informative thank you for sharing your skills

This was excellent. Thanks. It’s my first year gardening and this was very helpful as i just bought a plant and didn’t know if I should leave it in the planter or transplant it to the garden bed.

This channel is great 😊

Thanks Ben, we don’t bother leaving them attached to the parent plant but cut them and just grow them on in moist compost with great results.

Very informative. Thanks!

So informative, thank you!

Great video, its their 4th year so time to grow some runners!

This helped a lot, thanks! I took some runners from a native garden to help grow more native plants, and plan to grow them hydroponically. After watching this, I don't know if they'll survive being disconnected early, but this will certainly help me in the future!

Wonderful. Thank you Mr Ben : )

Great tips … looking forward to trying this out 😊

Really excited to see the next video but thank you so much for this one too! I was wondering what I was doing wrong to get those runners growing! Thanks so much!

As always great advice Ben. Please do more videos if you can than once a week. I use the exact method for runners on my strawberries with great results. Thank you Ben. Boycie

Ozark strawberries are the best for my area here in Mid Missouri. They produced all summer long with really no care, I use them to border things as a lovely treat as I go along weeding, watering I can also have a berry or two as a gardening reward.

I definitely think you need more subscribers! Haven't long found your channel and I find it really informative! I'm in the UK so the information should be OK for me and I won't have to worry about different climates etc, although I do live in Wales where it does rain quite a bit lol!

Thank you for this. I now know what I can do with the runners we have!!

perfect timing4me in Sydney Australia..thankyou!😁great tips!!

Oh, THANK YOU, Ben! I have a bunch of strawberry plants growing against a fence, but they are in the ground and the critters get all the fruit. I’ve wanted to relocate them into growbags where they’ll be a bit safer, but really did not know how to begin. You answered every single one of my questions!

Excellent info....

Love your videos, thank you very much 🤗🤗🤗

Thanks, some great tips

I find your channel informative and relaxing 🙂thanks for all the information.

Great stuff.

Howdy Ben!👋 Beautiful strawberries!👍I plan to start my strawberry patch next year.😃 I plan to share plants with others by making plants from runners. Thanks for this great knowledge!😃I need it and I'm looking forward to your episode on currants!😃 Your pumpkin in the background is looking good...turning!👍

yum! I love strawberries! I can wait to have a ton to mutch on!

Love that video…

Mmmm Strawbs. 🍓🍓🍓 TFS GV, take care everyone. ❤🙂🐶

Thank you! :)

Looking forward to the currants video!

Seascape are my favorite!

Still potting on runners from my “found” Gariguette plant and really looking forward to a few fruits in 2023. I appreciate that these aren’t for everyone giving just one crop per year but to us the exceptional flavour makes them worthwhile; also the few retailers selling these strawberries in the UK charge huge premiums. First rooted plants are in their new pots fitted to the sides of our “catio” (out of reach of felines). I probably have enough plants on their way now so will start to cut future runners from the now huge parent plant so that it can focus on its own growing (!) in the weeks left before autumn. Much much carefully directed watering needed during these days of 30c+ but with a very small garden we grow lots of things in pots so the same applies to them all. Looking forward to the video on currants, this was our first year with blackcurrants in pots and they did well until a sudden aphid attack caused one to drop a large part of its fruit. The other gave well though and blackcurrants are probably my favourite fruit, if not raspberries, then there are big fat sweet gooseberries……

Thank you

Great video, as always

I put seed trays amongst the strawberries with a mesh of jute twine tied across . I just hook the runners under the twine . Found a great perpetual strawberry Fragaria Albion. Tastes fantastic with a nice firm skin that gives a long storage time. Picked one perfect one in December last year.

Thank you for the video. Korona is my favourite variety and for everbearers I like Mara des Bois.

Really beautiful teacher lol🤗👋

I like strawberry too 🙂😉 It's berries are so tasty!

I really enjoy your videos! I like Tristan strawberries (new to me this year) and I’m searching for a n excellent June bearer to plant next year!

I'm going to try growing strawberries from seed next year.

Hi Ben, I grow Strawberry Mara des Bois Plants (Everbearer). They have an intense perfume and rich flavour of wild strawberries combined with the fruit size of modern varieties. They are a true treat and one which no strawberry fan will be able to resist. Truly scrumptious! I get lots of runners and am expanding my patch all the time.

I love to grow Seascape strawerries. Big juicy berries and often provide a second fall crop.

Hi Ben! I think my favorite variety is Everbearing. They can give me strawberries all summer, I love it! 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

I realy like the shape and taste of the raspberry strawberry Cross.

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Cambridge favourite for flavour and reliability😀😀😀

I remember when I first discovered wild strawberries while hiking in Wisconsin. They were so intensely good that I looked straight up and thanked god even though I am not religious.

Dzięki za wskazówki. Sama rozmnażam tak truskawki, ale Twoje wskazówki wzbogaciły moją wiedzę. Ja najbardziej lubię odmianę Roman F1, bo uprawiam truskawki w donicach, a ta jest bardzo ładna i całkiem smaczna. Jeszcze ładniejsza jest Toscana, ale smak ma taki sobie...

Thanks Ben. Absolutely love your channel. Just wondering if I can put some composted manure around the strawberries before winter? or better to do this in the spring?

That idea for pinning the runners looks like it would work for blackberries and raspberries.

I am new at gardening I’ve been binge watching your videos .learn so much from you. I have a question. If you bought strawberries root are they considered first year or second?

Hi Ben, I just snip them off and poke them into a pot of compost. I don't have any problems with them.

Try Ostara, absolute winner in my garden! June-bearers tend to taste better in my experience than everbearing varieties.

Great update Ben , perfect for me as I have just cleared out all my strawberries as they were over 3 years old , the problem I had was they were all the same variety and didn't produce fruit for a long period ,ie gone before end of June , I used the runner method too but I need to identify a new variety or two for next year as I have to start again, thanks once again for all your updates keep them coming as I love them

I'm trying out growing some esplenyadas this year and they seem to allready be fruiting, this feels oddly early to me, but I'll see how they carry on.

I would say marshmello is the favourite in our household. 😊

Great tips, sadly I can't grow much here in the Sahara...I mean, the East Midlands, with the heatwave and drought.

Thanks for the videos, i really learn a lot from u. My strawberries are quite sour, a friend told me to put some sugar water on them, it does make them a bit sweeter, but i would like to know what u would advise, thank you☺️

my favorite strawberry variety is Albion

Hi , I'm new to your channel and just starting my mini allotment in my back garden. It's September now, so just getting ready for next year, not really sure what to start growing, strawberries for sure, I have an apple tree and a part tree but not sure what they produce is edible I've never bothered with them much.... anyhow just to say LOVING THE CHANNEL

Wonderful and helpful video!

Love your videos. I have a small space to work with. I plan on using a 5ft x 5ft raised garden box. Will the effort produce much fruit?

Excellent film and well edited Ben. Good pace and I love the plug for the next film! One question about strawberries though, if you grow the mother plants in containers, how should you care for them over winter? Put them in the greenhouse (still in their containers) and water them every now and again? Thanks.

Last year my Dad took my kids to Home Depot and bought them 8 of the 6 packs of strawberries(only 4.98 each). 4 of them are june bearing and 4 are everbearing. I planted them for the kids last year and this year we had to build bigger strawberry beds. I just let the runners go last year and when I put them in their new permanent bed I planted 175 strawberry plants. There rest (oh yes there were many many more) had to be given to friends and family. This year, I will snip the runners. The point is if you start with just a few cheap ones you can get overloaded with them in a short time. I did use straw for a cover and just moved the straw and pushed a few runners in the dirt. There was a bed that I never did that with and they just grew right into the straw and rooted in the dirt beneath. I live in California so I just left them all winter and only moved them to the new bed in the middle of February. The roots were 7 and 8 inches long.

Wow, thank you! I learned so much. Any suggestions to a variety I can buy for zone 7b in TN? What seed company do you recommend here in the US or other for strawberries?

Great video as always Ben. I've not had much luck growing strawberries this year. Had a whole load growing but they never ripened, they just stayed white then went bad. Do you think you could possibly do a video of what could go wrong when growing strawberries?

Hey Ben! Great video! I just transplanted my 6 out of 16 strawberry plants that survived the not so great location to a grow tower. They are doing much better, lots of runners, but the berries are very small. What type of fertilizer would help? Thanks for your great content!

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My favorite is Albion. Any suggestions for a good June bearing variety?

We have some variety of red strawberry that was a volunteer, so we don't know what type it is. We also bought some heirloom white alpine strawberry seeds. Alas only one sprouted but it is doing really well.. The berries are not only white but they are small and have a lovely mild and sweet flavor. The alpines need to be taken out of the greenhouse in the summer or it will get too hot. But the red ones love the hothouse. We have a mild climate so they never die back, they just produce much less in winter.

Thanks for your videos it's great to see someone who is actually trying to help people because we are going backwards in the UK as people forget about the garden moaning and groaning about current government doesn't help we as people must learn from the past in ww2 people grew and maintained a pig and chickens for meat and eggs and they shared among others to make sure the community was feed people today just wind me up we must adopt the Chinese method of getting things done ourselves I am a South African and UK ruled the waves but now its a joke people must wake up but anyway I am just one person

How would I do runners with hanging baskets? Do I need to put the baskets on the ground and then root them?

Thank you for the detailed planting, Ben. Super cool. What is your planting zone? I am planting at 9a which was 8b until last year as USDA changed the zones. Currently, we have some Albion, Hood, Ft. Laramie, Whopper, Seascape, Eclair, and Alpine strawberries. Some are young plants and others are bareroot. Do bareroot plants bear fruit the first year?

Do you have to do anything special for the winter for the ones in the ground?

Just starting growing berries this week in Ontario Canada raspberries , blue berries and of course strawberries. I trimmed off the majority of my runners on my strawberries. I have four runners in small pots to try to propagate new plants. Your videos have answered almost all my questions. Just wondering about fall and winter as winter here are usually harsh. Do I need to protect my berry plants in any way or will they be fine on thier own.

Ben, I live in the US in zone 8 and was wondering, can I also go by your channel on when to plant ect along with you. or is my zone 8 totally different from your own....I enjoy your channel and have learned so much but I want to make sure what I plant and when is not going to fail on me.

I love you gorgeous plants! I have four small plants in pots but they yielded no berries at all! What am I doing wrong?

Didn’t get any strawberries this year but it’s my first year and I didn’t expect any. Plus it was crazy hot. Going to have to find a better spot for them. They’re in containers in full sun and they seem to be having a rough time - still alive, producing runners, but not a lot of full growth. Hopefully now that it’s cooled down, they’ll grow out a bit before it gets too cold. Gotta figure out how to make sure they live through the winter. (7A here - first frost Oct 15)

Hi Ben, my strawberries are older and producing small fruit, I am thinking I need to start over with fresh stock, I have tried growing the pups but they produced small fruit as well. What do you think? I have kept them watered fed & mulched but still tiny fruit. Thankyou.