Here you will be able to find out how to plant strawberry plants and runners with a step by step guide and also a video showing you how easy it is to do it.

You can never have enough strawberry plants so why not fill all your gaps with strawberry plants.

Strawberry runners

Strawberries send out babies at the end of the year either called strawberry runners or stolens. The strawberry plants send out these runners which then take root and the runner shrivals away to leave an identical plant

Step by step guide to grow your own strawberries

Here you will find the best way to grow strawberry plants with our strawberry tips.

Step 1

Find the mother strawberry plant which should have sent out a runner. Carefully cut off the runner closest to the plant, this should be ready when it has a few roots on it. The closest one should be the strongest strawberry plant. Discard any other plants.

Step 2

Fill a plant pot with soil or compost and plant your strawberry runner

Step 3

Give you strawberry plant a drink of water.

Step 4

Put your strawberry plant in a greenhouse or polytunnel till springtime. Water every so often but not a lot. Some of the leaves may die back but that is OK.

Step 5

In April you can now plant your strawberry plant outside. In the first year you may not get many strawberries but the second year you will get more.

These are the best way to plant your strawberries.

How to grow your own Strawberries video

We have put a video together on how to do these simple steps.