“I discovered quite by accident that the seeds on the strawberry will germinate. Some years back, before I started my own strawberry patch, I tossed the stems I had just cleaned in a flower pot. The next year I had a flower pot full of strawberry plants.”
What? You mean when you cut a stem off the plant and took the strawberry off the stem, you put the stem in a flower pot with dirt in it? Do I have that right?
The stem will not grow. But when a stem is cut off the berry most usually a seed or two gets cut off the strawberry. It is the seed not the stem that will germinate.