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I guess this sort of answers my question too, but just to clarify.
My strawberries were planted a month back in a pot, do i need to
protect them from frost, some are just starting to form flower buds?

If they are forming flower buds, protect them from frost, but don't
coddle them any more than that. Strawberry plants are normally very
hardy, but if they are brought on early, as you may have done by potting
them up, they need to be treated as half-hardy.

We take runners each year from our plants as soon as they form during
fruiting in summertime. The runners are left attached to their plants
and set into pots placed near to the plants. They are left to grow on
until the stem feeding them dies off. They are allowed to grow on in the
pots for a few weeks, then planted out on a prepared ridge to become
next year's first year plants. 3 or 4 year old plants are disposed of.

A very small number of the potted runners are retained in their pots to
be forced for early fruiting. Those are kept outside until mid February,
then brought in to an unheated greenhouse or poly-tunnel to grow on and
fruit, usually before Whitsun. This year's forcing strawberry plants are
in full flower now and fruits are forming on them. When the plants have
fruited, they will be disposed of because they can begin to attract
white fly, also because forcing leaves them unfit for future production.
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Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.