Comments on: Gardening Tips & Tricks : How to Grow Strawberries in a Container

By: chris1000uk

chris1000uk — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:43:28 +0000

Do I need to cover the strawberry plants during the frost season with something like an upturned bottle?

By: jamesff151

jamesff151 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:42:13 +0000

Nope, just leave them be!

By: tamajinn

tamajinn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:33:47 +0000

Very helpful, I’m going out to plant mine now!

By: Barbramajk

Barbramajk — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:46:53 +0000

Does it matter what kind of container you grow them in.?

By: Courtney214

Courtney214 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:17:29 +0000

Cover them with straw!

By: youngdrop22

youngdrop22 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:02:55 +0000

do you plant strawberries once or do you have to replant them every year like tomatoes???

By: Praxxus55712

Praxxus55712 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:41:39 +0000

Strawberry plants last for years. They come back every spring. You can also plant the runners that shoot off of it. My strawberry plants get bigger each year. This year they’re freakishly huge! It’s kinda spooky cuz if they get any bigger, they’re gonna strangle me.

*grabs the gun to go harvest strawberries*

By: gman2000

gman2000 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:08:36 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t know that when I bought 10 plants back in April from Walmart, I have like 20 plants now, they keep having babies and I am out of room! I thought these things died in the winter and had to be replanted, but I found out thru a forum that the first year you put them in, they only est themselves and grow, you don’t get serious berries until year 2, 3, etc. I thought they were more tropical, but they are actually hardy. I’m glad they like to be crowded, I have too many plants now.

By: Praxxus55712

Praxxus55712 — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:23:22 +0000

LOL Yep, when they start sending out runners, at first you’ll be like “Oh how cute”. Then after they send more, you’re like “I should root these and have more plants”. After a few years, you’re buried up to your ******* in strawberry plants and it gets to be more like a strawberry horror movie and the Beattles song “Strawberry fields forever” starts playing in your brain and you’re wondering if you can make it to the car before they catch up with you and send runners into your ears!!! LOL

By: gman2000

gman2000 — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:24:26 +0000

Funny you say that. Just the other day, I thought I heard something behind me when I was in the garden, then when I turned around, one of the strawberry plants was kind of swaying back and forth, like if something had brushed by it… then I ran into the house and locked all the doors and windows when I heard this: “If you build it, they will come.” I don’t want to go back out there anymore.