When dealing with strawberry runners, you have a few options. Some gardeners choose to remove the runners to encourage the parent plant to focus its energy on fruit production. However, you can also use the runners to grow new strawberry plants. To do this, you can peg down the plantlet into the ground or into pots of potting soil with a hairpin, U-shaped clip, or a length of wire. This will allow the plantlet to take root and grow into a new strawberry plant
. The best time to dig up young strawberry plants that have formed from runners is in the fall, typically late September to early October
. Therefore, you can either remove the runners to promote fruit production or use them to propagate new strawberry plants.
