"Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in message
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shazzbat wrote:
"Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in message
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Should I also do that for this year's runners, or should I leave
them?

Keep the ones you want to replace losses or increase your stock, and
let a
couple more root into pots for contingencies/giving to friends etc,
and lose
the rest.

Sorry, I meant the plants that were runners last year and are now decent
plants growing where I want them, but which haven't done much by way of
fruiting this year, presumably because they've been too busy getting
established. Should I chop their leaves off as well?


Yep. anything even slightly iffy, holey leaves etc, get rid. Provided the
centre is alive and should be showing the green tips of emerging leaves now,
that's the bit you need, all the rest can go.

And the traditional wisdom is to burn rather than compost what you cut off,
because it harbours diseases, viruses etc.

Steve