Lucy the Puggle Dog and I have been hard at work in the garden today pulling up strawberry runners and sprucing up the pallet gardens in the backyard.
So far this year we’ve grown lettuce, beans, strawberries, chard, zucchini, celery and spinach in the pallet garden. Lettuce has done the best.
The strawberry runners had overtaken one of the pallet gardens so we went ahead and pulled up all the Swiss chard for the chickens.
Originally I was planning on re-planting it alongside the chicken run, but once we got the chard down there the chickens saw it and started flipping out, so we just fed it to them.
Happy chickens lay happy eggs, right? 😉
If you have never planted strawberry runners before, it’s supper easy. Just dig around the plant and gently pull it up. 
Try and take a little of the soil it was grown in with you. When you replant the runner, make sure the soil is level with the strawberry crown {dark green part above the roots} and give it a quick drink of water.
It’s been my experience that the runners will play dead for a week or two, then they’ll magically come back to life once the get settled into their new location.
Trust me, it won’t take long for the roots to take hold and grow. By next summer this pallet will be full of green leaves and fresh strawberries.
How about you? Are your strawberry beds a mess? Do you just pull up the runners and toss them, or create new beds for them for next year?
~Mavis wants to know.
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