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Cover up strawberries?
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:34 pm
by womble
Hi
I have planted two lots of bought in strawberries, one a week ago and the other lot two weeks ago.
Where I am it looks like being about -2 tonight with maybe a bit of a snow shower.
Do you think its needed to cover up the beds?
I've only got some black plastic, so it would have to come off in the morning anyway I suppose.
I don't think its needed, but I don't want to chance losing the plants.
Thankyou for any advice.
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:53 pm
by oldherbaceous
Evening Womble, your strawberry plants should be just fine.
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:55 pm
by womble
Thankyou very much for putting my mind at ease OH.
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:13 pm
by Mike Vogel
There were strawberries on the allotment when I took it over, Womble, and they endure all weathers. Few die.
mike
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:27 pm
by womble
It was because they were bought in plants and newly planted that I was worried. I've done my own no problem before, but I didn't know the conditions these had had, before they came to me.
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:18 pm
by Johnboy
Hi Womble,
I agree with the others and add that Strawberries are surprisingly hardier than we all might think.
Last week I went past a commercial Strawberry Enterprise and the polytunnel frames are in place for later on in the year and the newly planted plants are covered in clear polythene sheet pushed into the soil at the sides. This is not altogether frost protection but a way of forwarding the crop and ultimately all they do is run a Stanley knife down the row once the polythene is on the polytunnel frames. Interesting as it maybe they are growing for profit and every advantage is sought to get an early crop.
JB.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:26 pm
by womble
Well it looks they survived a -3 last night and being covered with snow yesterday, thats after a week after bring planted bare rooted. So I would agree that in the future I won't worry about them at all
Thanks
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:00 pm
by Marge
Now this is weird, I bought strawberry plants last year and was told to keep them out of cold and frosty conditions.
I decided to do an experiment and left a few plants in the ground (south facing back border protected by a wall), and take the rest inside the garage to over winter.
The ones I left outside that have been subject to the craziness of the British weather (
) have fared better than the ones I kept inside.