i must have missed one of the runners last fall. we have an escape artist! a strawberry growing outside the strawberry patch. i try to redirect the runners back inside the patch, but this one had rooted already. the lawnmower will take it out though.
all the leaves and the row cover cloth removed
new green strawberry leaves already poking up. you can see how easy it would be to mix up the shredded leaves with all the rest of that when trying to pull them off each spring.
thats why i use the row cover cloth under the leaves. this way i dont end up accidentally pulling up strawberry plants. the cloth gets a bit gooey after all winter under the leaves though. i hang it on the clothesline to dry out and let the wind blow all the leaf bits off.
it looks much less gross after its dried off and windblown.
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