Strawberry plants in snow

SteveV2

Linda32 wrote: »

No you don't have to cut them back.

Sweet, hopefully I will have 5 plants on the go this year. (Along with a barrel of spuds and a couple of tomato plants).

ALIBOBSY

I am just going to tidy mine up in spring, by removing dead leaves and debris, but as far as I know they don't need to be cut back at all.

ali x

ALIBOBSY

SteveV2 wrote: »

Sweet, hopefully I will have 5 plants on the go this year. (Along with a barrel of spuds and a couple of tomato plants).

We started small like this and now the whole back garden is veg and fruit lol.
Be careful its addictive.
BTW if you like strawberries last year as well as the strawberry bed (we started with 6 plants and now have about 20 all grown from our own runners) we got a couple of hanging baskets with "everbearing" strawberries in. These were from Morrisons I think and about £5, but we got loads of delish berries right through the whole of the summer. they just keep growing pretty pink flowers and lovely fruit. They looked good as well as being great producers, plus were well away from the slugs. Ours are hung underneath a garden arch so the birds can't get at them either mmmmmmmm.

ali x

evie451

I have noticed they tend to die back to one green leaf so i do a tidy up nearer the spring cut off the dead leaves and give them a good feed......never had one die on me yet!

cootambear

You only need to cut away leaves in late winter to allow the new green leaves access to light. The is no point putting them outside now, the shock will be bad for them. Try early spring.

ginnyknit

I bought a very sad specimen at the end of last season for 50p and what it lacked in looks and fruit it made 10 good runners so am looking forward to seeing how it goes. My step grandson did get 4 or 5 fruits off it last year, amazing how a 3 year old catches on to what the plant produced, no one else got a look in! Glad I left it in the snow, just luck because I did ponder what to do with it.