Should strawberries be covered with say mulch for the winter? It is rather cold here
in the midwest, but the strawberries still have green leaves. I covered them one year
with straw, but I felt it did more harm than good.

Yes cover them but make sure the ground is frozen first. if not mice and
moles move in and eat all winter. I usually wait till the end of december
for this sort of stuff

--
Lynn


"sherwindu" wrote in message
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Should strawberries be covered with say mulch for the winter? It is
rather cold here
in the midwest, but the strawberries still have green leaves. I covered
them one year
with straw, but I felt it did more harm than good.

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sherwindu wrote:

Should strawberries be covered with say mulch for the winter? It is rather
cold here
in the midwest, but the strawberries still have green leaves. I covered them
one year
with straw, but I felt it did more harm than good.


Straw tends to mold and rot... Might try old sheets, leaf mulch
generally has been pretty harmless to any of my perennials plants.
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

I like the idea of waiting until the ground freezes before mulching b/c the
benefit of mulching strawberries in colder climes comes from preventing the
heaving caused by freeze-thaw cycles that dry out roots and often kill
plants.

"Lynn" wrote in message
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Yes cover them but make sure the ground is frozen first. if not mice and
moles move in and eat all winter. I usually wait till the end of december
for this sort of stuff

--
Lynn


"sherwindu" wrote in message
...
Should strawberries be covered with say mulch for the winter? It is
rather cold here
in the midwest, but the strawberries still have green leaves. I covered
them one year
with straw, but I felt it did more harm than good.