Wait until they’ve rooted and you can’t easily pull them out. Then snip it. If you cut too early/ where they can easily be pulled out, there’s a high failure rate since they won’t be able to take up nutrients at those levels. If you can pull them out easily, just plant them back in and wait another 2 weeks.
I pin the ones i want to root. Wait until rooted, then snip and remove pin
Had yellow wonder and forced my daughter to eat one as well 
she was like “Oh wow! More?” After i begged her to eat it for a few minutes while she refused. They’re her strawberry candy now.
Also I’ve learned one thing sun the deer:
No leaves but berries and fruit = extremely sour fruit no matter the variety. They won’t get sweet without leaves. The deer wont eat the actual berries but will risk it all for strawberry and raspberry leaves. That seems to be their favorite out of everything aside from peach and Nectarine leaves and branches.
I’m sorry about the deer. Until you have a fence, have you tried the deer and rabbit spray? I use it on plants they like in my front yard and as long as you spray it, it works really well. Smells putrid, but it’s just eggs, garlic thyme and some other things. I do it at night and doesn’t seem to affect pollination.
They don’t care lol. I bought all the sprays a few weeks ago and granules and my dogs even pee on the short fence that we have up.
Mine right now. XD
I did not know they did that from runners either, and pointed it out to my husband. I was like, “What? Never seen that before!” And he looked and shrugged and said, "Strawberries gonna do what Strawberries gonna do!
Well, grow and learn…while ever and June bearing both did great on my hot deck in spring/early summer, the everbearings ripening now are mostly rotting. The ones in my vegetable gardens (less hot and less direct sun) are totally fine. Will switch out the deck for june bearing. In the spring!
Is there enough of a difference between galleta and earliglow to make it worth getting galleta? If not, I might just fill in the bed with a mix of FF and earliglow runners.
My only June bearing that was able to really produce this year: Denali, had the leaves eaten up too much by the deer so they weren’t able to come to full potential or sweeten up. 
However they did have a different taste when it was ALMOST time before they got mowed by deer again. It was strange but good.
For collection purposes now that i have room, i got a bunch of June bearing this year too: earliglow, Sparkle, honey delight, ac Wendy, some others i can’t remember. I think I’m going to try to collect them all like Pokémon cards just to do so. Everyone will get 1 5 gallon pot or a 2x2 ft square in one of my raised beds. Before this year, i stayed away from June bearing due to room and time.
I bought 12 metal raised garden beds for strawberries earlier this year because i i felt like it one night. 9 are still sitting in a box waiting to be made 
Sounds like something I’d do…
I decided I can fit another narrow raised bed and was looking at epic gardening this time. I have two sprout and 2 XL plus multiple extensions Vegos. Epic has a chart on the website comparing sizes and on it is time to build…they list it as 40 minutes!!! Hysterical and totally absurd. You can’t even unbox these things and get the plastic sheeting off in 40 minutes! 12 would be very daunting.
Kevin from epic gardening doesn’t even do the blogs anymore. He’s hired other people to do them now and i don’t think they’re plant people as much as we are.
I think there are better options than vego. I actually returned my vego because they felt inferior some other brands that I’ve bought. I made a shaky video and showed it to Tiirsys one night while making it i can send it to you if you like haha. Been meaning to edit it and post it but I’m terrible at filming.
Between listening to TikTok stuff or songs and trying to make those beds… and a toddler stealing my tools as i go… takes me about 3-4 hours each
On another thread, i mentioned how my musk strawberries came into their own after mulching them with chic manure. 1st 3 years there werent many berries but after fertilizing with the manure they really took off and fruited heavily. i got these from Drew and i dont think they are named cultivars. just wild plants. if anyones interested raintree carries musk cultivars. they arent cheap but you only need a male and female. they runner like crazy. The Strawberry Seed Store sells seeds if you’re cheap like i am. id share some of mine but i dont know which are female or male.
I’ve been seeing the musk “Bubble berry” on sale at half off from lowes. I’m not sure if they’re the same variety as the other musk strawberries however! They do seem to fruit as soon as the new runners are established. The thing i see about them says they’re everbearing but that may just be because the fruit shortly after rooting. Either that or something else is making them fruit.
Oh I was thoroughly unimpressed with vego. They are absolutely identical to sprout in nearly every way, compatible (I put some sprout panels on my vego boxes), identical color… the Vegos scratched so easily. Not a single sprout scratch setting those up or deconstruction and reconstructing. Countless vego scratches with one set up. A friend got the birdies, and I’ve heard the finish is better.
I’ve found work pro has the best ones where they like up perfectly like puzzle pieces. Forgot the word for it right now but they line up perfectly unlike all the other ones I’ve bought. However they only do small beds and although the plastic is thin, i like them.
Nossta has the thickest beds out of all the ones I’ve bought so far. All 15 of my metal beds are from them so far including over 10 round beds that i have some of my trees in. Still have to setup the other 6 wherever they are…
This spring, I decided to roll the dice on my first attempt at growing strawberries by planting Rutgers D’light. The description from Indiana Berry didn’t have much info but I had heard good things about the other release from Rutgers - Scarlet. As they woke up, removed all the flowers to give them a good run at establishing this year. They’ve had some spotting on the leaves earlier this spring but that’s mostly gone now that the rains are less frequent. So far they seem to be producing quite a few runners and I hope to get a good tasting next year.
have you tried stringing up a few fishing line “fences”? put a few fishing lines at deer-head height, around where you don’t want them to go
they do not like bumping into invisible dangers
I had them 
but my dog chased, ran into, and broke them and the deer watched… since then, they realized that it can be broken and have been breaking them. 
I got motion sensored sprinklers and they’ve been working so far.
Did you make those pots? I want to sell my runners but really don’t want to buy more plastic pots…I tried making some from shipping paper, but it was a pain…
