I presume your purchased some type of everbearing strawberry or day neutral strawberry if growing in a hanging basket? June bearing varieties would only yield for a week or two in June but the everbearing and day neutral types would bear sporadically over the whole season.

I have not grown them in pots, only in a matted row method. All strawberries propagate themselves from runners. Some varieties produce a lot, some little. I would cut them off. They will not root in the air as they need to be in contact with soil to root.

Since you have enough mother plants in your baskets, I would cut them off as they will serve you no purpose.

Thanks for the reply. I don't know what kind they were, they were just labelled as strawberry plants. Never thought to check more.

Is there any way to propagate them, or would I have to plant them whole lot in the ground? I'd like to get more plants (ie more fruit) if I can.

Thanks again

Yossu:

If you put your hanging basket on the ground over bare dirt, the runners will root in. Later in the season when established enough, you can cut the runner from the mother plant and dig up. pot up the runners in new baskets or use them to start a strawberry patch on the ground if you prefer.

Another option would be to put an unplanted hanging basket filled with soil next to yours and put the runners on top of the soil in the empty basket. I would pin them down with something to hold them in place until they root in thoroughly. Be sure to keep the soil moist!

Usually strawberries fill in an area with so many runners that when growing a patch on the ground, I would renovate the patch every 3 years. I would wait til the new crop of runners rooted in well (mid- August in my area) then dig them out. I would dig out the rest of my patch, till it up, get rid of the weeds and re-plant with the saved runners from that current season.

You basically will find the same issue if you keep your hanging basket for more than one year. Some runners will doubtlessly root in your basket and over time it will become too full of plants The key with growing them in a basket is to remove the excess runners so your basket is not overcrowded. It would be difficult to keep the basket moist enough if too many plants are growing in it.

Thanks again. At the moment, the baskets are over a path, so the only current option is to add more baskets around them. Having seen the number of runners already, I can see that this option isn't going to work for long.

I may see if I can move them, so they are either in the ground, or over it. Trouble is, we don't have much growing space, which is why the baskets were an attractive idea.

Thanks again.

I am faced with the same problem, but that is a very good idea. I must try it out, thanks :)