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Planting barefoot strawberry plants

I am using 2 inch net pots. The roots straight out of the package almost filled the pot. I could not get roots through the bottom of the pots so I sort of spiraled them around the pot and then added a little media on top to hold the plants upright.

How do others do this? Do you trim the roots first? I tried a small pack as an experiment but have 100 more schedule for delivery.

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Permalink Reply by David - WI on January 30, 2014 at 10:22am

A lot of the ones we got had more than one "plant" growing together in one package.

I carefully rinsed the roots off in a bucket of water, pulled away any black, dead root material, and separated them into individual "plants". Keeping them in the bucket of water while separating the roots made it a lot easier to gently pull them apart.

Then I carefully poked the plant into the net pot however many times it took to get at least the "main" root through the bottom of the pot... about like threading a sewing needle.

I tugged the root down to pull the plant down into the pot where it wanted it, then added hydroton around the root mass to hold it in place.

The first ones I did like you describe... all died. (Not necessarily because of that.)