Strawberries - runners

I have some strawberries planted in one of those upright planter bags (got it from T&M), and they seem to have done quite well (nice tasty strawbs anyway!); I now have three or four runners coming off, but as the plants are in the upright bag, there is no way I can lead them into a pot of compost or anything to make another plant.

I was wondering if I could fashion something out of a bag, and tie it onto the runner, but I think it would be too heavy and too unpredictable in the wind. Any suggestions?

 

Good idea Jenny, thanks - I have another bag sitting unused (just need to find it); I was going to put them into pots for now, as their season is done fruit wise, and then I was going to plant them on toward the winter.

To be honest, I am not sure how to over-winter the strawbs in the bag?

 

I only got a handful of plants from the local Homebase to give them a whirl - there are some left to come, but I don't think we'll get all that many more now; strawbs don't do repeat fruiting do they?

 

Sadly not Steve - the planter has two strawberry plants on the top; bricks might be an idea if I can lay hands on some though.

 

Ooooh, now that is a good idea - thanks Kristen

 

They seem to be fairly decent fruiter's (I think we should adopt the word fruiter and get it into the dictionary), so its got to be worth a shot. I need work to settle down again to give me the chance to get back out there and get it done.