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Old 10-06-2011, 08:09 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Mike Lyle[_1_] Mike Lyle[_1_] is offline
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Default Basket Strawberries

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:25:35 +0100, mogga
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:51:37 +0100, Mike Lyle
wrote:


I think I'd suspend another basket below the first, exclusively for
the stolons to grow on in. If that's not practical, I'm wondering if
it would be worth cutting runners off and trying to root them in
cuttings compost, loosely covered with a plastic bag: I've never heard
of anybody doing it, so it's probably pointless, but the OP's got
nothing to lose.




Make a mini-bag of damp moss for them for a few days before cutting
them off?


Of course! Great thinking! That would be air layering: standard for
quite a few things. I wonder if strawberries are robust enough to take
it.

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Mike.