been out in the garden today to give them a feed some plants now have over 20 flowers on each and some are still forming, they must like the way i treat them, and as i said i dont plant the runners with the strawberry plants as i put 5 to a trough i put the in single plant pots at the side. some of the strawberry plants i got from from www,blackmore.co.uk have also started to do runners as well now. i will have to get the fruit net soon. my best friend keeps hers a little crowded too and she gets lots of fruit too, we think if you give them too much space they go mad forming runners and you get less fruit as a result (i have found this through my experience), i also only let so many plants form runners and cut unwanted runners before they start to grow. the plants are always tightly wedged in the strawberry picking fields so prehaps they get same result or conclusion as me. you can never have enough strawberries! i go me a old large cold water tank and it will fit a good 30 plants (my spacing style) so that will be min of 155 by august to my collection. haha