These 2 tips = juicy strawberry harvests

Can you relate?

[DrTHC]

My grandmother taught me how to cultivate strawberries and it is pretty similar. Year one after planting, cut all runners and pick all flowers. Year two, pick all flowers, and allow the runners BUT clip them as soon as they put down roots. Third year on, flowers become fruit....and if you don't want your strawberry patch to expand, clip the runners from there on out. Otherwise, you can leave the runners and let your patch expand. I've established successful strawberry patches from Arkansas to Alaska, and they're all doing extremely well. And some of those strawberry patches are over forty years old and yield many gallons of strawberries each year.

[Katlatimer]

Those runners have literally traveled across an acre of land and now are EVERYWHERE

[TheHuntDuck]

If i was a bird, id live next to this guy

[Onyxicality]

I was just searching for Stardew Valley beginner tutorials, and suddenly, this got recommended.

I mean, I'm not complaining. It's pretty interesting.

[TheBookofLab]

Back in 2014 my grandmother passed away and one of her favorite things to grow was strawberries and since we are a pretty poor family the only thing I received in my grandma's memory was one singular strawberry plant so I planted it in the back yard and let the runners do their thing and now I have an entire lil field of strawberries from my grandmother ❤

[TacoPluss]

I remember my family growing a lot of strawberries every year. Had a pretty large plot of land, mostly natural fields, semi-rural. A few grass lawns and a heck of a lot of edible crops scattered wherever Dad wanted to place em. The majority ended up being strawberry bushes, and he taught me to trim and cultivate much like this. It was simpler logic though, remove some of the buds and small strawberries so the plant would have less energy and water to distribute - It would always result in larger, juicier and more flavorful berries. Thanks for reminding me of those nice memories. Cheers!

[qixec]

But the real question is how do you stop the squirrels and birds from eating every fruit before it's even red

[muffinkitty]

My dad had a few strawberry plants in the backyard garden, but we could never harvest any because my dog, who passed away last August, would eat them off the plant as soon as they were ripe. She absolutely loved strawberries.

[FrogeniusW.G.]

An additional tipp: Don't pick any blossom! Look for the small, dense (sterile/unpollinated) ones. Leave the good ones on.

[kai-pop]

I am about to spend the next two years building up a garden. I have never gardened before. I have subscribed to your channel. Only three videos in and already hooked. Thanks for the answering the questions I didn’t know I had.

[SaintShion]

We always runners and shoved them into dirt next to the plant to take root. My mom has so many strawberry plants now that anyone she knows has a strawberry plant 😆

[zach]

Strawberries will take over the WORLD if you let them. Those runners are your best friend if you want more strawberry plants, and your worst enemy if you don't.

[KhaozVoid]

Loooove goin to my grammas....she has em growing wild in the front of her house, have been for years. Some of the best damn strawberries I've ever had.

[Fireball]

Plant: *Tries to reproduce*
This guy: AND I CUT IT OFF

[oogawakokomi]

This is the simplest way someone's ever explained it and trust me, I had a hard time understanding exactly what to do in terms of what the runners look like and why taking off the first flowers works until this video 🤣

[michaelscottfuku]

Damn i like that setup. Gonna have to get me one of those potting thingys he has for his strawberries.

[b.]

Wow the flowers and leaves are just as cute as the fruits

[m.pearce]

Mountain Strawberries the best for container or ground and in the spring with snow on the ground it produces fruit. Used 25 years

[emmashepard]

A few years ago we made an experiment with strawberries, we replanted 12 young plants into a mulched bed and created for them a forest like environment. We got 4 pounds of strawberries form those 12 plants in the second year.

[catherinedurbin]

Omgggg I needed this because my strawberry bush isn’t doing so well