Moving Strawberry plants

Evening all.

Early today, I pinched a few baby strawberry plants off my mate (they were the offspring of a couple of plants I gave him a couple of years ago).

I've trimmed them up and stuffed them in bog roll tubes packed with compost and given them a good soak, then placed them in my new grow cupboard under the light but not on the heat mat.

Should I give them any bottom heat or keep them cool? Could they even go straight outside at this time of year so soon after the trauma of having been plucked from the ground (no doubt there will have been root damage, because I literally just pulled them out).

 

Hiya C1.

If it were me, I'd just stick 'em straight in the ground, water them in. They're pretty tough

 

Ahh, I neglected to say, you might want to prepare the bed first. I'd do this by digging in some garden compost or well rotted manure.

 

The bed, in this case, is going to be my shed roof, which has been covered in cut open 4 pinter milk bottles

 

I see. It's probably worth using a 'decent' compost to fill the bottles, maybe a mixture of something like JI No2 and MP compost. Don't assume that even though we're going through a wet period, that they won't need watering, best to keep an eye on them. I'd be thinking in terms of keeping them well fed when they 'get going'. I'm sure others can add more

 

Mine are all in pots as the old bed had to be lifted and the compost bins placed there.
They are happy little plants sat outside in pots on the raised bed awaiting the new season and warmth to grow away in their new bed. No heat needed as they are tough little beggers. As you want to put them up high, I would have chosen the Alpine Strawberries, they make for better plants on the roof.