View Single Post
  #4   Report Post  
Old 06-06-2010, 08:35 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rusty Hinge[_2_] Rusty Hinge[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Dec 2009
Posts: 871
Default climbing strawberry

Pam Moore wrote:
I just had an email from gardenbargains.com, about "The world's first
climbing strawberry". 10 runners for £9.99.
It's not a site I'm familiar with and went in my Spam folder via
Spamfighter.
It says "Mount Everest is a unique strawberry producing long runners
which can be trained up a trellis."
This makes me wonder whether one could try this with any strawberry
plant, training runners up something. After about 3 years all should
be fruiting but what then, when the parent plant has done its job.
Does anyone know about it? Is there anything really "new" about this
strawberry.


The runners of normal strawberries will die off if their plantlets can't
root into something.

--
Rusty