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Everybody in Great Britain must be familiar with the bright red Strawberries both grown and sold everywhere in the Summer. They are, as everyone knows, a trailer that readily produces long runners along which will develop young plantlets that can be cut off and rooted to make new plants for future years and replace the older parent plants as they become less productive. However, several varieties have been bred with extra long runners that will grow up to 2 metres and unusually, will bear fruit as they develop. The idea is to plant these strawberries against a support framework and tie up the runners as they grow thus making them grow as if they were a climber. It is not a new idea and goes back decades, but has resurfaced and the plants are widely being promoted again. It must be remembered that they are not a true climber and in fact there was a court case some years ago that ruled they are actually trailers.
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