I ordered strawberry plants by mail from Park Seed, thinking I'd cancel the
order if my local garden center has nice everbearers at an affordable price.

My question is: Park wants to ship them March 15. I asked them to hold off
until April 15 and they were sort of giving an implication that they're
about done shipping them by then. I am zone 6a and it's often cold and wet
then. To me it's a crapshoot, wetness and temperature-wise until the last
week of April/first week of May. They're going in soil already worked up
last fall for them but I have always avoided working wet (clay-ish) soil.
But I have read that if you don't have everbearing strawberries in the
ground by April 15 you can forget having any yield this year. I'm hoping
that's a comment not appropriate for my zone. Hey, if they're in the ground
on April 15 I'm going to have to cover them most every night. Ideas?