Beginner Gardening: Strawberry plants, 0 by triplenickle

triplenickle wrote:
I planted 50 plants two years ago and did as instructed to pinch off the buds the first year. This year I got twenty pounds of strawberry's off of the plants. We are getting ready to turn them all in to straberry jam in a couple of weeks. They are all in the freezer now.
I cut them back last year and covered them with straw which they grew right up through and the berries laid on the straw as they grew instead of the dirt.
I did have a problem with birds eating them. Next year I am going to put up stakes with white fabric on them.
A question: the instructions said to cut them all back after they are done producing. The problem is that I don't remember when it said to cut them back, after producing or in the Fall?
Can't find the dirrections I got with them. I purchased the plants from Park Seeds and they arer producing very good. Some are the size of a silver dollar, big.
triplenickle