Dawn wrote:
Henriette Kress wrote:

I'd just want to leave them be. Dig around the patch and plant some of the
plants off the runners in your newly dug garden.

Are you saying I can transplant the plants at the end of the runners and
dig the rest up? Or that I should selectively dig around the
strawberries when planting tomatoes?

You want to leave the ones that made it over winter in the ground.
If you dig them up you won't get as many strawberries.

And you can prepare for a few years hence by taking everything except the
mother plants and putting that into freshly dug ground, once it's freshly
dug. The first plant off any runner is strongest, the rest are generally
runts. You can plant those, too, but if you have too many, ditch those.

The tag only says "peppermint". No latin name. It survived the first ice
storm but didn't seem to make it through the second one. The patch has
been getting spring rain but so far shows no sign of life.

If it was any size at all last year it'll be back, once things warm up.

Henriette

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