How to Revitalize Strawberries

Strawberry fruit production will fade in time and the strawberry plants will need to be replaced. Gardener Scott shows how he renews a strawberry bed and revitalizes his strawberry plants for better strawberry harvests. (Video #519)

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[heidiclark]

Thank you for this timely video. I have some strawberries that need to be replanted and thinned but I was not sure how to do that. Now I know.

[DIGardening]

I found that raising the soil level really lessened the pest pressure. I had a huge amount of fruit loss to snails, slugs, and pill bugs when the level was down 3 or more inches

[eddieslittlestack]

Strawberries are SOOO DELICIOUS from the garden! I’m growing Jewel, June baring, in MN. Was watching this on the patio chair looking out into my garden ☕️ 🍵. I just discovered 2 monarch butterflies on my swamp milkweed! So happy! 😊

[bowtielife]

This was good timing. I have heard this process talked about but never saw it in action. It is roughly what I imagined, but I really like how you rotate the halves of the bed over a 2 year period. That helps a lot! I am reimagining my strawberry bed this winter.

[fnproulx]

thank you, the best video on this subject, keep up your good work :)

[Gkrissy]

Perfect timing because a deer ate some of my strawberries in my pot. I also have a big bed of strawberries that the deer didn't touch but I do need to fertilize it and put some cottonseed meal to adjust the ph from the alkaline irrigation water.

[teresashearmire]

Have you grown Alpine Strawberries? They are itty-bitty but very flavorful. Mine are in long windowboxes. I move them to the greenhouse over winter, they produce year round. I really need to thin them and amend the soil this year.

[juliehorney]

Very timely video for me. Can I do this now here in 5b/6a? Temps will be in the 70s next week with nighttime temps still above 50 degrees. First frost is Oct 7th.

[Thi-Nguyen]

I wondered about the quinalt strawberries. Are they sweeter than most typical strains? Are the berries bigger? Do they produce a great amount? I’d love to know more!

[mikeedward]

Do you feed any special type feed at all?

[dr]

My plants are just 2 years old, but i have a ton of runners. Can i cut off the runners and replant those to a separate bed?

[ddobrien]

I live near Seattle, WA and my 4 year old quinalt plants didn't produce **any** runners this year when they've produced many each year before. I still have some 1 year olds but I'm worried my older ones are done. Should I replant???

[robertschmidt]

When the plants stop producing berries, will they continue producing runners?

[jennifer]

I have a question. This is my second year growing strawberries. Last year (my first year) my strawberries did not produce a single strawberry. This year they took off and filled my keyhole raised bed. They also produced a lot of strawberries. But the bugs ate far more strawberries than I did. I never once saw a bug in a strawberry but something was clearly eating them. The only bugs I saw in the raised bed were earwigs. So I assume they were eating them but I do not know for sure. I used insecticidal soap and BT but neither killed the earwigs or stopped whatever was eating my strawberries. Does anyone have any advice for a more successful season next years--what could be eating them and how to stop them?

[RandoBox]

How would you recommend doing this with a Greenstalk?

[ZenHulk]

I cannot find strawberries anywhere in Utah, our two nurseries, nothing but one breed and they're horrible. Nothing on Amazon and i hate Burpees, im still getting emails 3 yrs after i told them on the phone to stop.