Monday, January 5, 2015

Winterizing Our Strawberries

These are our strawberry plantings. We do two types of plantings. The bare root cuttings, which are just the plants with roots and are fragile, were planted at the end of June. The plugs, which are plants with the root ball and soil attached, were planted at the beginning of September. When the roots freeze, the plants are covered with straw to keep them frozen until spring. The yellow straw reflects the sunlight and keeps the plants frozen until weather warms and they are ready to grow and bear fruit.



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