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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> When's the last time you moved your strawberry patch?  Strawberries do like 
> rotation, and you can get disease problems if they stay in one place too long.


I didn't plant them until the spring of 2006, so they haven't been there 
too long. But as crowded as my yard is with fruit trees, I'd have 
trouble moving them anywhere else. Well, no doubt I'd make room if I 
absolutely had to.

I do mow them off after they bear, and I usually remove half of them 
then. But considering how hot and dry it is here by then, they don't 
spread out very uniformly. I normally just end up living with whatever 
they decide to do. :-)

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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