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["Harrick, Barbara" <b.harrick@ilslaunch.com>]

Happy Spring all!! About the strawberries. What makes you think these
are virus-infected? Are they exhibiting disease? I've had my
strawberries in the same place for 15 years, and pull the entire patch
every 3-4 years because the strawberries get smaller etc. I know this is
basic, but when you said "years old strawberry patch", it seemed to me
that it might be just age.  Barbara Harrick
Zone 6b

Barbara Harrick
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:27:43 -0500
From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries, replanting
To: Bill Russell <shaman8@verizon.net>, North American Fruit Explorers
        <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Bill Russell wrote:

> It seems that my years old strawberry patch is declining from,  
> probably, virus problems. So I plan to spray with weed killer and  
> replant. How long should I wait before replanting?
>
> ?
> Bill Zone 5
>
> ?
Can you plant them somewhere else for a while?

Current recommendations seem to be for at least two or three years'  
rotation inbetween strawberry plantings.

here's an example:

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:3eI9x5za9fkJ: 
www.newenglandvfc.org/sessions_05/strawberry/ 
Crop%2520Rotations%2520for%2520Long- 
term%2520Success%2520with%2520Strawberries.pdf+strawberries+rotation+dis

ease+control+cornell&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

Some people are recommending brassicas in the rotations for disease  
control: an example of this:

http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/PDIS-91-8-0964? 
cookieSet=1&journalCode=pdis