I figure if I deny them fruiting their berries at every turn (I’ve pampered, babied, supplicated, begged, hand-wrung over strawberry plants for 10 years) they’ll defy me and bumper crop me?
Cause the reverse has happened every time I try to grow them :)
Give it a try it may work. I do just the opposite by snipping off the runners but I plant in 12 inch squares and the plants are robust in this weird climate. I still have a third of mine to plant because of our crazy wet weather with another week of it to come. We both have serious Cabin Fever...