posted 1 year ago
At a former garden, I had everbearing strawberry plants that were called a "crown" variety. They were entirely runnerless (unless stressed---then there would sometimes be some runners.) To reproduce, they made another plant(s) right along side the original = every 3-4 years you had to dig up the clump that was now 50+ plants. The original and older center plants had deteriorated, thus forming the ring/crown of younger plants.
This past spring, I wanted to establish a strawberry bed. I spent hours on the Internet and couldn't find anything but alpine strawberries that were runnerless. I've raised red and yellow alpine strawberries from seed before---totally different from what i was looking for.
Does anyone recognize what I've described?