Strawberry Tunnel

The smaller nft system was finished back in January 2012 as a close up of a previous pic shows ...

 Since then, 1 single 'mother' strawberry plant purchased in September, has multiplied through runners and now completely fills this system in June 2012.

As I noticed new flowers on the mother plant I thought it time to prune. So a couple days ago I started removing any dead leaves and removed all the new growth runners. This will leave plenty of space and air flow for the flower stems to develop with much reduced chance of mold & rot. I counted over 200 new plant cuttings...

 Today I started planting them out into 128 cell seedling trays. I filled 1 tray and have almost twice that many again to finish tomorrow. (ill grab pic of finished trays and emerging flower stems tomorrow).
The 'after prune' shot.

Runners all tidied up and planted out, all 270 of them..

 New season flowers starting nicely. They will appreciate the extra space and air flow.