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Re-using strawberry plants/runners from 2014

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  • 30-03-2015 12:28am
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    evolving_doors
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    Anyone any tips! I know folk usually reccomend dumping and buying new but im adamant not to spend any mo.ey this year. Ive stripped em all down and discarded old leaves etc and repotted, but was wondering if a tomato feed would do any good later on?
    A few had a little maggot in the root which I took out. I still planted them though as the crown looks healthy enough.
    I also have a green plastic lidl greenhouse thing so would it be worthwhile using it for strawberries?


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    greasepalm
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    oh crap little maggot could be a disaster waiting to happen-vine weevil


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    greasepalm
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    ohh crap hope its not these buggers:eek:.


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    DANNY2014
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    Get rid of if ya even see a vine weevil I had a crop of over 200 plants going back 6 years ago all from runners... Got one years good fruit and following year they were wiped out by these...


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    evolving_doors
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    DANNY2014 wrote: »
    Get rid of if ya even see a vine weevil I had a crop of over 200 plants going back 6 years ago all from runners... Got one years good fruit and following year they were wiped out by these...

    Ya thanks. They're all potted up separately now so I'll just continue and see what happens. Ive inspected the old ones and found a few vine weevils but kept them separate after removing the maggot and the soil.

    . I think maybe next year I'll just use the strawberries from the runners only. I'm taking a break from the intensive gardening this summer so the strawberry thing was just a case of try it out and see what happens. (Probably just do tomatoes)


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    greasepalm
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    i had a great time late in the evening going round my plants with a head torch and a pliers=le crunch,i found out even neat jeyes fluid has no effect as they can swim,the nematodes was the best thing i could find to combat them.


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    evolving_doors
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    greasepalm wrote: »
    i had a great time late in the evening going round my plants with a head torch and a pliers=le crunch,i found out even neat jeyes fluid has no effect as they can swim,the nematodes was the best thing i could find to combat them.

    Where did you get the nematodes?


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    Red Hare
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    You can get them here http://www.mrmiddleton.com/nemasys-vine-weevil/


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    evolving_doors
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    Red Hare wrote: »
    You can get them here http://www.mrmiddleton.com/nemasys-vine-weevil/

    Cool thanks,


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