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Re: Strawberries

I planted 25 of each type so I could enjoy strawberries all summer long but still have lots for jam making in June.   I think I could have let the fruit come on everbearer type and not picked them back.   Seems to me I got conflicting information on that variety.  I took great willpower to make myself wait an entire year for my very own fresh strawberries.

Another thing that we talked about was mulching the plants over the winter.  It is recommended to mulch them with straw, or something similar, when it starts getting cold enough for the ground to freeze.  I did not get a chance to get the straw down before we got cold weather.  However, the weather has been so strange this year.   About two weeks age we had 8 inches of snow.  New Year's eve it was about 5 degrees.  Now we are having 55 degree days with rain (El Nino).  Since I was cautioned not to put the straw down too early and warned about the fact that it could become a nesting place for rotents, I had mixed feeling about mulching.  So far the winter has not been that severe and I do not think my plants have suffered.  However, it is only January and anything can happen.  I still keep wondering if I should put the mulch down anyway.  Thoughts on this?

You wrote:
>Are these summer or everbearing types?

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> From: Susan W. Smith <sws2@psu.edu>
> To: 	
> Subject: Re: strawberrie
> Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 8:24 AM
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> I can't remember off-hand the name of the varieties I planted. But this
is what I did to put in by strawberries last summer.  I amended the soil
with conmpost.  Planted my strawberry plants.  I was amazed at how they
packed 25 plants in such a small package.    The only piching back I did
was to pinch off all the blossoms so no fruit was produced.  Other than
that all I did was make sure they got enough water, either from rainfall or
the garden hose.  Each plant has put out 3-5 runners and I just let them
go.  I think some people pinch these runners off.  Is this just to keep
your patch under control or to keep all the grow in the original plant?  If
they keep multiplying at this rate, they will take over my garden on about
another year.  
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