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KarenNEIA Sumner, IA(Zone 4b) Aug 30, 2009

I have a june-bearing strawberry bed and I usually mow it off right after I finish picking the last of the berries. This year I didn't do that. Does anyone know if it is too late? Maybe should just let it go until spring now. Should I be afraid of mowing off their winter protection this late in the season?

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Indy Alexandria, IN(Zone 6a) Sep 13, 2009

I would not mow them now. They need energy at this point to make their fruit buds for next spring

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HelenVT Charlotte, VT Oct 01, 2009

I never heard of mowing strawberries. Will the parent plants bear as much as they did the year before? I had a friend that would rototill half of his bed after they got done bearing and let the daughters spread out into the newly created bed. What do you think of that? I myself just recently made a new bed of composted horse manure and put new plants in it. I never got around to doing it earlier and now I wonder if I made a huge mistake.

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Indy Alexandria, IN(Zone 6a) Oct 01, 2009

Rototilling half the bed and letting new runners grow out into the tilled space will work perhaps. It depends on how well the older plants put out runners. It didn't work on a portion of my patch this year which was exiremely dry after June 25th.....strawberries need regular watering in kind of large amounts with their shallow roots.

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CompostR south central, PA(Zone 6b) Oct 02, 2009

I think you have to mow shortly after harvesting because then you'll mow off only the large old leaves. You don't want to mow off the tiny new leaves forming in the crown. By now the new leaves will have gotten too big I think.

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