New life goal: Be a strawberry farmer 🧑🏼‍🌾 🍓 Why do strawberries give off runners? 👉🏼Survival propagation: Runners are a natural way for strawberries to clone themselves. Instead of relying on seeds, the plant sends out horizontal stems (“stolons”) that form little baby plants 🌱 ⚡️Energy trade-off: Producing runners takes energy away from fruiting, which is why heavily runnering plants often yield fewer berries 🍓 If you pot up a runner, how long until it fruits? 👉🏼Year 1 (this season):