Propagating 🍓Strawberry Runners

The mother plant is in the cup while the daughter plant is attached to the mother by a runner.

To make more strawberry plants, the easiest method is to propagate them from runners-which are long, trailing stems that naturally produce new plantlets with roots, allowing you to simply root them in soil or rockwool cubes, and then separate them from the parent plant.

Propagating 🍓strawberry plants is a fun way to introduce your child to the concept of asexual reproduction.

A strawberry plant propagates asexually through the production of "runners" (also called stolons), which are horizontal stems that grow out from the main plant and develop into new, genetically identical daughter plants when they root in the soil; essentially creating clones of the parent plant through this form of asexual reproduction.

Your child can propagate their strawberry plants growing on the Tower Garden using flexible silicone cups, a rockwool cube, a 📎, a aclothesline clip, and some rooting powder.

Science comes to life in the garden when you observe and learn about the natural world through gardening.

Clip a flexible silicone cupcake cup to the Tower Garden cage. Dip the daughter plant into rooting powder and secure onto a retaining wet rockwool cube with wire or a paperclip. Once it roots in, cut the daughter plant off of the mother and plant! Keep the rockwool cube wet. Photo credit: Andi Durkin 💛🍓

Happy Gardening!