PROPAGATE STRAWBERRIES

When your berries have finished fruiting for the season, they’ll send out long tentacles from the crown, with a tuft of greenery at the end. Peg down these runners in loose soil around your plants and they’ll soon develop roots. Or bury recycled plant pots around your strawberry patch and peg runners into the pots, so that when they’re established you can simply snip off the umbilical cordlike runners and grow the rooted plants on prior to transplanting early next spring. Propagating strawberries from runners means you can rejuvenate your berry beds at no cost; replace a third of your older plants each year.