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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

I always thought strawberries were mulched in the spring and the new  
plants grew up through the straw.

This kept the berries off the ground.

Since you have straw and berries at the same time, you get "strawberry"/.

At this time of year they are mowed down.

Later,
Tom

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:50:11 -0500, Mark or Helen Angermayer  
<hangermayer@isp.com> wrote:

> Any ideas  on the best time to mulch strawberries?  We've had a  
> strawberry
> patch for three years now and never winter mulched.  This year I'm  
> trying to
> do things right.  Jim's mentioned he's had good results with pine  
> needles as
> mulch so I thought I'd give them a try.  I've been able to aquire bags of
> needles but don't know when to put them on.  How much should the plants  
> die
> back before I cover them?  (So far the plants' foliage is as green as  
> ever,
> we've only had lows of 30F.  And trees are losing their leaves but not  
> fully
> dormant.)  Also after covering up the plants, do you have to remove the
> mulch in the springtime, or will the strawberry plants push up through  
> the
> mulch pack?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Angermayer
> Zone 5 Kansas
>
>
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