Growing Strawberries: How to Grow New Strawberry Plants from Runners

Fresh homegrown strawberries are a delicious taste of summer, but there are never enough! Fortunately, it's easy to make more - absolutely free.

Strawberries produce long, leafless stalks called runners. These can be used to propagate new strawberry plants which are ready to begin cropping next season.

In this short video we explain how to easy it is to make new strawberry plants from runners so you can have an even bigger and better strawberry harvest next year.

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[guineaporkum]

As for the pin that holds the runners down, I can also recommend a paperclip. You have to bend it into an upside-down U and you can peg the new plants down. That's what I did.

[humzasheikh]

thank you so much i am a young child and intrested in these things i got a strawberry plant myself and that really helped

[Sezameseedz]

I love this video because it told me enough to make my own plant!I have NEVER tried planting a strawberry only buying from stores so I will sure try grow on and I will tell you how I got on.

[NathanMulder]

Now I know why my indoor strawberry plant was trying to escape through the windows!

[xfortunesquex]

Great grow guide! This is my first year with gardening (especially in containers) and this was very informative. Thanks!

[uhhhhh......]

the weird thing is i've never taken care of my family's strawberry plant since we first got it 2-3 years ago, and i've recently reignited my interest in the strawberry plant so it's nice to know how to propagate them so we continue getting a lot of strawberries, and now i even know how to get more from the same plant!

[duffster]

Great info. I grew my first babies last season with this method and had so many plants I gave some to my neighbour who is growing his own baby plants now. I had some fruit too in the first year and will be propagating more again. I prefer to keep them in containers so they don't spread. Its great when you see all your babies growing and they are such tough plants its hard to go wrong. You cannot beat your own strawberries, they are so much better than anything you can get in the supermarkets. I am currently recycling an old metal filing cabinet into my new strawberry planter ready for next year.

[FLAMINGNORA]

I had a cheaky runner pop itself into a pot that I was trying to use to grow a french bean plant (didn't work). Glad I saw this, now I know what to do next. LOL

[elle]

Thank you so much! This made it easy for me to start propagating some baby plants! Great video! I'm a noob with strawberries but this cut right to the chase! Cheers!

[cristiekellar]

It does work well. I've done both the pots and digging to relocate. Created many to share with friends, also.

[jessiferrie]

Thank you, exactly what I was wondering!

[thisandthatwithchris]

Great info just what I needed thank you!

[coreyxia]

wow! i got a runner so that's very nice tips

[TheWegmaster]

I plant strawberries in long mounded rows with drip line under 4 ft wide black plastic. I punch a hole for runners (stolons) and put them in between plants to try and create long continuous rows. It keeps them from spreading out too much and on the drip line. I don't even have to worry about cutting the runner. Once full, then I may do pots near plants and get new separate plants at year 3.

[gardeningtipsUK-okzr]

4 years ago one of the runners of my strawberry plants rooted in the thin strip of rubble in-between the house wall and some flags it obviously doesn't produce much fruit due to its location but adds some charm to the boring flags so I have no intention of moving it(it was also the only plant left due to vine weevils killing the others). However it produced some runners this year which I have propagated and moved into the veg plot

[BenHo-eq]

Does the runner need to be connected to the parent plant..?

[thatbfnub]

Just potted the runner, hope it goes well!

[hightrees]

Hi and thanks for the video very help full. The strawberry plants I get, grow grand sending out runners which I know now how to grow new strawberry plants from. The issue is how do you keep the fruit from going bad if it is sitting close or even on the soil. Thanks

[ninokali]

Thanks for this! I realised I had so many runners and I tried replanting them. Unfortunately the leaves are withering and I’m hoping it’s just an adjustment?
Do you think they’ll survive? I’m not sure if this is normal

[minzawthanmvm]

Thanks for your knowledge sharing, what temperature is the best for strawberry growing?