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A Seasonal Guide to Wild Gardening
Growing strawberries
with POPPY OKOTCHA — Ecological food grower and garden writer, passionate about a wilder approach to the way we garden.
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Under Poppy’s guidance, you’ll discover how to clone strawberry plants from your existing patch.
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Growing Strawberries
Strawberries are a great, low maintenance perennial. Not only will they give you a crop of delicious, sweet fruit every year, they'll also provide you with new, free plants too.
Strawberries spread by putting out runners and cloning themselves. These baby plants are clones of the mother plant, so will bear the same fruits. Most plants put out a few runners at a time, so you can get a lot of new plants every year.
Using the Runners to Clone Your Strawberry Plants
The easiest way to propagate strawberry plants is to put the baby plants into small pots of garden soil, but leaving them attached to the mother plant until they take root. Hold them in place using a bit of bendy wire or a twig, and then once they've taken root, you can snip them off the mother plant.
If a runner has multiple plants on it, snip off the ones nearest the end, so that the plant will focus all of its energy on the one plant.
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Poppy Okotcha
Ecological food grower and garden writer, passionate about a wilder approach to the way we garden.
Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and ecological gardener, on a mission to inspire people to engage with the natural world. Whilst now focused on her own budding garden in Devon, Poppy began her formal horticulture studies with the Royal Horticultural Society. After honing her understanding of regenerative growing techniques she went on to learn forest gardening from Martin Crawford in one of the oldest ‘food forests’ in England, and qualified as a Permaculture Designer. An ambassador for WWF and Nature is a Human Right, Poppy has been featured on Gardeners’ World (BBC2); has presented Series 1 of The Great Garden Revolution (Channel 4); is a podcast guest; and writes for publications including LivingEtc and Wicked Leeks.
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