Newbie - Strawberry Question

Hi all, I have just got into vegetable gardening and it was a bit of a late start in the year for a lot of things. Tomatoes and Peppers (from seed), will come good for next year I hope.
I bought some Strawberry plants at a knock down price from B&Q and they looked like they were on their last legs. I have watered them and looked after them and there are loads of new leaves coming now, but my question is about the old leaves. There are some big leaves that was on the plant originally, these have started to fold in half now the new ones are coming. Is this normal?
I suppose I will have to wait till next year for flowers and fruit now.

 

My mini strawberries are still flowering, I've only had one ripe strawberry off it so far! I'm no expert at all, so maybe wait for other advice, but if you're getting new leaves maybe pinch the old bigger ones off? I would if they were starting to go yellow/brown regardless

 

Just to be sure I have understood: If you sowed seed of Tomatoes and Peppers this year then those plants will only give you a crop this year, you won't be able to keep the plants alive over winter (well, technically you can, but in practice folk don't because the plants will be weakened and most probably succumb to disease before next year ... so sowing seed early-ish [depending on how big you can grown them, indoors / in a heated greenhouse] next year in order to give you a crop next summer/autumn.

Sounds OK. From this time of the year, onwards, the older Strawberry leaves can look rather manky! Do you know what variety they are?

 

Thank you for the replies, I didn't really start getting into the growing until the back end of May. I was just seeing what I could get this year even though it was a late start. I Germinated the pepper seeds in wet kitchen roll in a hot place and was glad when they started to sprout. They still only have 2 leaves plus cotyledons and in 3 inch pots in the greenhouse.
As for the Strawberries, I do not know the type (B&Q sell off). The big leaves are still green, just curled up a little.

 

I think, given the late start, it will be pushing it!! to get much/any crop off those Peppers this year. Folk tend to start them early (relative to other things) as they take a while to get going. But ... with a good Summer & Autumn you never know, and if nothing else you would gain experience It is possible to over winter Peppers, but its a bit hit & miss (better suited to more experienced folk IMHO), so you might want to give that a trial too, but I recommend that, either way, you re-sow some more early next year.

I have a very simple rule here - you can adopt it, or ignore it! - which is that I only grow things with great flavour. Thus, personally, I wouldn't buy Unknown Variety X (of anything edible, let-alone Strawberries) as there is no telling whether they are going to be really tasty, or averagely tasty, or they might even turn out to be an "ever-bearing" variety.

I am sure, home grown and picked & eaten "really fresh", they will taste better than the Supermarket ... but ... by choosing a variety known for good flavour you would be growing the best you possibly could. Taste is subjective of course, so worth trying a few different ones until you find the one(s) you like the most. They may taste different grown on your soil, or given the "husbandry" style that you use to grow them, so my recommendation would only be a guide - ditto the catalogues of companies trying to flog them to you!! Either way, even if you think that your NoName ones taste fantastic, I would recommend that you try some others, known to have great flavour and then stick with the one(s) that you find you & your family like the most

Strawberry plants produce "runners", so you could buy one plant, of each of, say, 6 different varieties. Grow them and try them for taste, and then keep the runners of the one(s) you like, and in a couple of years you will have enough plants for a whole bed

Normal strawberries carry fruit for an all-in-one-go harvest - over a period of 3 weeks or so. You can get Early and Late varieties, which extends the season, and by doing that you can harvest your own Strawberries through June to mid July (ish!). OTOH "Ever-bearers" carry fruit for the whole season. Sounds wonderful?? ... but ... they only carry one or two fruit per plant at any one time, and the fruits are smaller than normal varieties. So if you have 10 plants you might get 10 small-ish berries. Not enough for a bowl for one person! So I think they are a waste of time ... plant some Raspberry plants for the late-July onwards season, and just grow normal Strawberry varieties for the early Summer.

Hopefully yours won't turn out to be an ever-bearer variety , but it they do give you just a few fruits - all summer long - then I recommend you give them away in the Autumn and buy a decent variety ... well, that's what I would do at least