How to Care for Strawberry Plants in the Fall
Growing your own fruits can save you a lot of money because purchasing fruit from the grocery store is expensive. Strawberries can cost more than $5 a pound, so growing them in your own garden will save you lots of money. Growing strawberries takes a lot of time and care before they will produce berries in the summer. Another, just as important time for caring for strawberry plants is before the winter freeze. Caring for strawberry plants in the fall is easy with the proper procedures. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Water your strawberry plants twice a week. Make the soil damp down to 8 inches.
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Cultivate and hoe out any weeds around the strawberry plants.
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Analyze each plant. The plants with the most flowers and leaves keep. Dig out any plants that just don't look healthy and are browning. They are just stealing nutrients from the good strawberry plants.
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Cut off any runners from the healthy-looking strawberry plants as there isn't much growing season in the fall and the runner will only take extra needed moisture and nutrients from the main, healthy strawberry plant.
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Apply organic mulch around each strawberry plant after the first freeze.
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