Me and Dizzy are officially on holiday now and Dizzy has already been using the first few days to start some gardening! This week she’s been learning about strawberry plants (Dizzy does like a strawberry) and how to create more strawberries for the future by planting runners!
How to plant strawberry runners (by Dizzy):
1. Identify the runners. These are long thin shoots that come out of the plant and look like they’re running away from it! They will have a tiny tiny baby strawberry plant on the end. Dizzy found 6 on ours!
2. Next you will need the equipment for planting the runners. This includes pots, soil and something to hold the runners in place with. We didn’t think this through very carefully beforehand, so we used straws…
3. The first thing to do is to fill your pots up with enough soil. 🙂 Then pick which runner you would like to plant first!
Dizzy inspected them all and decided this one wanted to be planted first.
4. This is the fiddly bit (I had to help Dizzy complete this part). As we were using straws we cut most of it of so we were left with the bendy part and a small amount of straw on each side. We then placed the runner in the soil with their baby roots facing down. To keep the runner in place, we placed the straw securely over the runner right next to the baby strawberry plant.
5. This process is then repeated for all your other runners! 🙂
6. After a couple of weeks the roots will have grown and your baby strawberry plants will be big enough to be detached from their mummy plant.
And that’s it! Dizzy’s gone back to watching her original strawberry plant in the hopes of finding strawberries.
I haven’t told her the reason we never have any is because the birds keep eating them early in the morning…and the birds look so happy I don’t have the heart to move the strawberry plant now…
Maybe Dizzy will get some next year from the new plants! 🙂
Have you managed to grow anything in your garden? Or is there anything you’d like to? We’d love to hear your gardening stories. 🙂 xxx
‘Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that fall’ – unknown
This is such a good step by step! I am shocking at this kind of thing! I kill everything! Its not even funny!! I have given up on it all together. But seeing this I’m so happy your birds are getting some lovely treats 🙂 xx
Thank you. I’m glad it makes some sense. 🙂 There must be some plant out there for you! Maybe a cactus? I love them, even though I did manage to kill one last year but no one could understand how! xxx
Yup, tried that and failed, tried aloe vera…. Failed…. Its hysterical really. My dad is like really????? How???? One day i’ll find one thats perfect for me! Until then I’ll just have to be awed by yours 🙂 xxx
Lol I did think aloe vera was suppose to be relatively easy to grow but I have never tried myself. There will be a plant out there for you somewhere! 🙂 Me and Dizzy get on pretty well with tomato plants. Maybe you could try one of them? 🙂 xxx
this was darling as always! Oh how I love strawberries! You are so sweet not to move them from the birds. So kind! I couple of years ago I had a garden on our balcony (I am on second floor), loved it! Since then I haven’t been able to get it together to plant one. I know, I am awful. catchatwithcarenandcody
Thank you! We love strawberries too. I have bought some from the shop just so we had some this year. 🙂 Aww, what plants did you have? xxx
ooops! That was supposed to be Dakota commenting, not Cody lol
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I hope you both get to eat lots of strawberries. 😊
The birds eat them all. I have bought me and Dizzy some from the shops to eat though! 🙂 xxx
Way to go, dizzy! The only plants I can grow are silk. I love the quote!
Thank you. 🙂 I only read that quote for the first time yesterday, I love it too! xx
Dizzy needs to get up earlier in the morning if she hopes to beat the birds to the strawberries. She can come help in our garden. We have plenty of herbs, lemons and grapefruit now. In summer and autumn, we have figs, plums, quinces, tomatoes and lettuces, and lots and lots of roses. I bet Dizzy would like the lettuces and roses.
Me and Dizzy aren’t very good at getting up early in the mornings… Dizzy loves the sound of your garden though! It sounds amazing. She said she’ll be round if you need any help eating any of it. 🙂 The roses must be so beautiful aswell. xxx
This is great. I had no idea of how to do this planting of the runners. Dizzy demonstrates very well. We have asparagus and rhubarb. But this year with a very cold and wet spring the rhubarb has not been good so I have been buying some.
I didn’t either so I am hoping this post comes in handy to some people. I spent quite a while last year looking on websites and watching youtube videos to work it out! Has the asparagus still been ok this year? xxx
Yes it was fine but the rhubarb is very thin and sad. We are going to see if we can give it some fertilizer to help it for next year. My garden has plants that are either huge or mildew covered with all the rain. But today we have sunshine! Yay!
It’s been the opposite here today. None stop rain and really windy! At least it’s abit cooler though. 🙂 xxx
oh yummy! i really would love an apple tree. but someone told me it draws wasps and i got too scared to get one because i am terrified of wasps. enjoy the fruit! xo
We have two apple trees in our garden and we don’t have any wasps. The birds love to eat them when they fall from the tree but that’s it. 🙂 xxx
We have had a strawberry plant for about 4 years and each year it brings us lovely juicy strawberries 🍓 thanks for a great post xxx
That’s lovely. Sound like you’re getting on better than me with the actual strawberries. 🙂 Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. 🙂 xxx
I can grow a cactus…only because it needs ZERO care! Anything I touch is headed for that big garden in the sky! Pretty sure my photo hangs in nurseries across the city with the tag, “DO NOT SELL TO THIS WOMAN – SERIAL PLANT KILLER!
But go, Dizzy! Get those birds some seeds so she can harvest some strawberries! 😉 😀
My cactus Colin died last year. One arm at a time just fell off. I still don’t understand what happened to him. I even looked up cactus care online but nothing helped. 🙁
Lol, the birds have seeds aswell! They just love it all. xxx
I have a twelve foot cactus in my front yard. We have an agreement – I don’t bother him…and he doesn’t bother me! 😄
I love that! Sounds a good agreement too have too. Maybe that’s what I should have had with Colin with cactus. 🙂 xxx
Haha.. loved it!!
Dizzy is really cute😍😍😍
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I have told Dizzy you think so, she’s looking very pleased with herself. now. 🙂 xxx
I have so much wildlife around these days (deer, groundhogs, rabbits, squirrels, birds) that I can’t grow anything.
Good luck with actually getting to eat some of the strawberries. The plants look great!
Thats lovely having all that wildlife around you. Thats worth the sacrifice of not being able to grow anything! 🙂
And thank you. We have our shop bought strawberries so its ok. xxx
But I like growing things!
That is tricky. Wildlife do seem to get through everything they find too. Maybe some indoor plants? Or something they wouldn’t like to eat? Even though I can’t think of anything at the moment. xxx
I have a feeling, Dizzy is the ”brain” and you are the ”physical body”, a perfect team. Maybe the birds will share some strawberry with Dizzy when they know how kind and intelligent Dizzy is 🙂
We do make a good little team. 🙂 I think the birds are finding them too tasty. I’m keeping Dizzy happy with the shop bought ones though. We’re in the New Forest this week and even saw some other donkeys yesterday! Hows your week going? xx
Thanks a million for letting the birds have the strawberries 🙂
I hope you are enjoying New Forest, the beautiful calmness and yet full of energy and colours of nature. That connection is ultimate bliss 🙂
It is beautiful down here. 🙂 And thank you for the link to the lovely music. 🙂 xxx
I love strawberries! Especially home grown ones! 😋🍓 Hope you and Dizzy have a lovely holiday! 😊xx
They are really yummy! We’ve had a lot more luck with the tomatoes which have been really good. 🙂 We did thank you. Hope you’ve had a lovely weekend. 🙂 xxx
Thank you so much Jay for the nomination. xxx
Interesting share on how to get new strawberry plants from runners. Thanks😊
Thank you. I never knew how to do it so hopefully other people will find this useful. 🙂 xxx
For sure it will be. Happy Sunday😊
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I love strawberries.~RedRoseCrown
Thank you so much for the reblog. We love strawberries too. 🙂 xxx
loved your blog! Dizzy is adorable and made gardening looking fun! 🙂
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Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂 xxx