How and Why You Should Rotate Strawberry Beds (BIG Lesson Learned)
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- After 3 years strawberries become big, overgrown, scraggly, messy, and unproductive. We learned the hard way and we paid for it. So in this video, we are discussing how and why you should rotate your strawberry beds.
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How you are doing it works just fine, however, it sure takes a lot of time. Here's an idea on a way to do it that would take a small fraction of the time....I would take out the healthiest plants that you want to keep, string trim the rest of the plants as close to the ground as possible, add about 3 inches of fresh compost on top to smother out the plants left, and then replant the healthy plants you took out right into the fresh compost.
I raise about 1/4 of an acre of strawberries and this would be a similar method to what we use in the yearly renovation process.
One thing we're trying is rotating rows. We've talked with some of our local Amish and this is a method they've used for quite a while as it does save on labor over time. Plus it allows for always fresh plants and some consistency in yields. The idea is to rotate the raised beds from outside to inside and the other way around the next year. Think of it as a bed 4' wide you have 4 rows in total going down the bed. When you first plant out the bed you plant two rows in the middle leaving the outer edge of the bed bare. Once your plants fruit and then send out runners you train them to the outside open rows for the next year. That next following year you will have a full bed of strawberries (two rows first year and two rows second year) and once the fruiting is done and before runners you rip out the outer row and repeat the process rotating outer to inner every year. Seems like a lot of work but really isn't as your spreading out all the work done in the video over a couple years.
Brilliant, thank you!
I like!
I bury small growing pots (or plastic cups, yogurt containers, etc. ) between the established strawberry plants, then pin the runners in the pots. The new plants establish roots in the little pots which makes transplanting a breeze! Plants usually become woody and less productive after a couple years (from my experience).
Several comments made me want to tell about the "old-fashioned" way of planting ... not in raised beds. The rows had wide pathways between. As runners formed, they were moved into those pathways. When the new plants became established, the "mother" plants were dug out. You could plant a single long row & move the runners across the field, thereby moving your beds, each year.
This works if you have the space but for those of us that only have room for one bed at a time, we can't keep rolling the bed along. So I like the comment that talked about using the solo cups to root the baby plants until they could be planted next year
You mentioned doing this previously, I chose not to ask because I trusted you, and now look at you coming through for me. Showing me the HOW TO! Thanks for taking care of your subscribers and customers Luke! I'm sure this took extra time. ❤
I was told 3 years is the optimal life for a strawberry plant. So... the way I rotate the plants is: every year around midsummer I take solo cups filled w/soil and clamp the babies onto the dirt in the cups by pushing the prong end - NOT the clamp end! - of a clothespin over the runner (close to a new baby crown so it's pressed gently to the dirt) - one per cup - and water them until they take root. Once they've rooted (about 4-6 weeks), you can clip the runner that connects it to the main plant and you have a new one ready for spring. I dig the cups into the ground and mulch over them for the winter, then in the spring you can plant them wherever you want them!
thanks for this amazing tip!!!
Amazing!!!
I love that idea!!!
Oooh great tips
Paul Gautschi says that he just puts down a 2" layer of wood chip mulch over his strawberry bed each fall and the old ones won't have the energy to come up through it but the younger ones do. Have been out to see his place two summers in a row and the patch always looks dense and lush.
Yes. I have been doing his method for years, but with leaves and compost as mulch. 6 inches feels like too much, but it works amazingly. So much easier and It fills up the soil to the right level, feeds the bed, keeps the soil moist, and replenishes the bed because it naturally thins out the strawberries. I first did a test bed. The bed I didn't do this to was far inferior. The mulched bed was amazing. My strawberry production skyrocketed in the Paul Gauchi beds (like 5x plus more). I felt sad watching Luke have to do so much work to get an inferior result.
Wow, now this sounds like it could work for me. I just don't have the space to have two beds that I can stagger and rotate.
@@kristaln135 I do it every year. Mine are June bearing so I've been experimenting with cutting them after harvest to the ground. Then covering them with the compost and mulch instead of waiting until fall to do it. Seems to be working well.
I was thinking about Paul Gautschi too! I am still longing to visit his orchard!
I'm really curious on doing this. All of my plants are young, first garden I am so thrilled with it!, and they have some daughter plants coming off of them. I'm waiting to cut the runners once they are well rooted. I don't want to smother any of the plants so how would y'all recommend doing the technique y'all are talking about?
I've decided to have three beds of strawberries and one bed of garlic. Since garlic is harvested early august, I will replant the garlic bed with strawberries and, in october, change the three year old strawberry bed to garlic.
Thanks for the post. We re-planted about 200 strawberry plants two years ago into a well fertilized and composted bed. They had been in the original beds for who knows how long, definitely undernourished and in need of a change. We got a good harvest the first (last) year. After mulching with leaves at the end of last season and mulching further with straw this year we had a very good crop and the plants look amazing.
I started with three plants last year. I've given away about 50 plants, and filled a 4x8 bed, a kiddie pool, and and have been potting up the runners. I've gotten probably 200 plants from those first three so far!
The dead and decaying matter helps with Soil fertility and water retention. So I think the best thing to do is just do minor clearance, so a mulch is left for above reasons. So rather than digging them all up, perhaps just ‘weed’ out the older or less healthy/productive parts of the plant. Then if necessary occasionally use a DIY liquid feed, but a mulch I believe should be left, this vid is interesting and timely for me as I just moved to a flat that has no garden so I’m preparing to grow Strawberries etc in Pots.
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I don't mind a short lesson. It allows me to watch all at once rather than pausing a lot to get my stuff done. Thank you!
I have strawberries in pots i don't have a strawberry bed . Strawberries are my favorite food. I'm constantly buying them.
Kind of funny that you mentioned this. I just pulled out all my strawberry plants, which we seem to do every few years as well. We only have one bed and only one spot for a bed, so no rotating for us, but I am hopeful that next spring, if I replant right away, I should get berries in the spring! You had some good info, though. I am glad to hear that your soil gets really compacted, too. I thought that maybe we were doing something wrong with that. We had an additional issue with our strawberries, though. We had grass growing in the strawberry bed and it was killing the strawberries, so I had the additional fun of digging out grass. Lot of good info in this video. Thanks!
i have 4 strawberry beds and refresh 1 of them each year on a rotating basis. It works great!
That’s a great tip for strawberries because I have a 2 year old small strawberry patch and right now runners are invading other plants ‘ space. Runners are growing under the eggplant! Staggering method is a great idea! Thank you so much!
Here's a tip...
At the end of each season, add some compost of top of the berry plants and then top with some wood chips or other mulch.
The weak plants will die back and the healthy will push through in the Spring.
That is how Paul Gautschi (Back To Eden) manages old beds without digging anything out.
I have been unsuccessful starting any strawberries this year, everything rotted at the start of the year and then we got hit and are still in drought.
One professional gardener in the UK uses the strategy of four beds, three are staggered strawberries and the fourth is parsnips. Every year the runners are taken from the three beds to follow on from the parsnips. The oldest bed is then dug out to be the next parsnip bed.
That's what I am doing only with Potatoes and bush beans. I'm going to do 5 beds, beans in 1 bed, potatoes next, then strawberries, since beans pull up nitrogen from the soil, & potatoes are heavy feeders, theyll follow the beans (which i will allow to compost on top of the soil over the winter). I just moved into a new home & am totally redesigning my garden beds for next year! Ill be recording the process & progress on my UA-cam channel if anyone is interested!
@@karen1nicola All I remember is that it was Gardeners Question time on BBC Radio 4.
I never knew you had to do this. I've never grown them but when you see a strawberry field they look so nice
Really needed this video, thank you! God bless you guys!
Hmm - bit confused. When you plant out new strawberry plants, from runners, they should fruit the next summer so you wont miss a season. I'm planting out a new bed now with fresh plants. Its late winter, early spring here in NZ. I'll get fruit this summer. Like you, i'll make a second bed with the runners from this first bed, next year. I'll try to remember to keep runners out of the first bed for the first following years then in its third year I'll pot up the runners and use these to replace the old three year parent plants. Likewise in the second bed. So often i've let them grow wild and then dont know which are the old plants and which are the runner plants. Aint gonna happen this time round!!!! Thanks for the video and nice to see Aiden again.
My same thought, Annie. I read about fall-planting strawberries last year, ordered plants and got them in early September, they had time to establish before going dormant and I had a big harvest this spring.
Jay Andrews Could it be that the winter keeps them dormant and that is why he doesn’t get a crop the first year?
Jay Andrews
Apparently they can produce within the first year as well. However second and third will produce the most. So you’ll have to replace them every 2/3 years for optimal production.
I wanna move to 100% beds rather than tilled lawn and next year I was gonna start a strawberry bed so this is veeeery good to know!! Thanks 🍓
I STARTED WITH 12 YEARS AGO. EVERY YEAR I GIVE PLANTS AWAY. I DID LEARN SOMETHING NEW THOUGH
I am a lazy gardener. I rake through the bed every late winter, pulling out the debris and the large berry plants. Then backfill with compost and amendments. Same beds for decades.
Thanks for explaining exponential growth correctly! It doesn't just mean 'fast.'
Wow! Lot of work!
God tip. Thanks for sharing.
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Doing my strawberries this week too. Very hot weather here in So California. Humidity is draining. Thanks for the info on the crown and roots! I pulled a lot of strawberries beginning of the month. I had to make room for beans and cucumbers.I have strawberries everywhere. Going to try and do a wall of strawberries this next season. I need the ground space. Stay hydrated!
Love the vertical strategy for this. Might have to try it since my berries are in a wheelbarrow which is becoming over grown. Great idea! So Cal over here too and can second humidity has been ridiculous, even up here in the desert .
First year container gardning for strawberrys. Have hung extra pots next to them for the runners. Cutting the runners once they root in the new pot. Not missing my extra large strawberry patch..
Wow I feel better now, I kept wondering why I didn’t have any strawberries other than one every few weeks. The plants look great, runners going wild. I kept wondering what I did wrong. I’m very excited for next year now 😭
I definitely understand what your saying I have been there done that and It drove me crazy to
Interesting to learn about the crown grown taller, with roots further away from the soil. Knowing this, do you think it's possible to trim the lower part of the crown, while leaving the upper part with some roots still attached, then planting it again?
There was a little oak seedling in the strawberry bed. I keep tree seedlings as Bonsai or plant them elsewhere.
There's no shame in it admitting you didn't take your own advice Luke. History proves over and over again people are great at taking other people's advice. However when it comes to taking their own; almost never happens .🤷🏼♀️ That's
where the problem is🤣. Your a super and (HUMAN) gardener. 💖
☺️ one plant can feed the world! Totaly
true
I grew up with strawberries in the garden and learned to always rotate strawberries beds not only because plants get old but to control disease. So close to 10 years ago, I started raising my strawberries (and most of garden) in raised beds and will never go back. Around here in Ohio 25 plants are under $10 so in the spring I plant these in new beds (total of around 30ft). By next year the beds will be full of plants and we will be picking berries. After the second year of picking, I clean up the bed and have enough time to double crop beans and edamame. So I always have 2 seasons of June berries. Also, I never let my runners go out over the edge. Move them around to fill up your beds and out of those 25 plants your will have many many quarts.
Your kid and I share a name, so it always throws me off when you talk to her. 😆
Its good to have friends. my strawberries are doing absolutely nothing but not dying the won't speed or flower. I bout stater plant and it has flowers and produced a few rotten fruit and nothing since then.
We did a raised bed for strawberries this year. Only our second year to try strawberries so we don't have the mat of old growth yet.
I see to put those in a higher raised bed so runners can be cut easier without hitting the ground and running..
I love strawberries but not enough to deal their sprawling nature.
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If you just cut back the runners they won't spread! They are actually easy to control, with just going out like once a week to cut back the runners!
Cmon, why are there that many dislikes? What’s not to love? Well let’s focus on the positive an look at all the likes. Thanks for Annother great post!
I have moved strawberries and gotten a great crop the following year! Even better because they were spaced out and could get more sun.
Could you hypothetically add more soil over time so the roots are covered by dirt when coming out of the crown to continue using the same plants?
I think it is interesting idea, but in reality it would continue to be hot mess. My dad used to cultivate 2 big patches and they would just go crazy. He rotated them every two years. We had a stream running under the property and I swear they were the best and biggest strawberries I have ever eaten.
I had the same thought.... I’m curious what the answer would be
@@plaisirdelanglais What do you mean under the property? Can they grow in the shadow?
@@burt591 No, meaning the stream or source you can call it made the garden always very moist underground so we didn't have to water as much. Only the top soil sometimes.
@@plaisirdelanglais Now I get it, sorry English is not my first language I got it all wrong
I knew it. Everyone has been telling me no u dont have to do that amd ive had the same problem its been like 6 yrs since i planted mine and it has decreased also. Plant numbers is up but yield is almost none and rodents moved in. I knew it im telling all them people who told me no
be patient and learn. stay blessed
Hello. Love all your videos. I, like a lot of people , am a first time gardener. I created 3 raised beds this season. At first I just filled them with dirt but after a while I got really tired of weeding. After doing some research I decided to mulch the bed. Its been great. Cuts down on watering and weeds are a thing of the past. My question is: Do I turn the mulch under at the end of the season? Next year if I plant from seed, I would think I would have to remove the mulch as the mulch is about 3" thick. Seeds won't be able to come through. Just curios as how you handle mulch in your garden.
I see you have found help.
Tip: when I move mine I am sure to keep them moist and in soil when moving them. Although, strawberries are pretty tough!
I just learned a valuable lesson watching your video. I planted 5 rows of strawberries and this year I have harvested 80 lbs so far and the season is finally winding down. 🤦🏼♀️ I really have room to stagger the plantings for the runners. Not quite sure what I’m going to do. Any advice would be great.
Do you till your raised beds every year or do you let it sit when you plant
I started out with 24 plants, no strawberries this year, now I know why, but the runners! I'll have to make another patch, but, I'm wondering if the little runners will be well seated into the ground before winter hits, or if I should wait until spring to transfer? we are in the North.I
Give it a year or two I just keep the runners in my bed. Still waiting on a great harvest. I will be topping off my bed with additional compost this fall.
We have to redue our strawberry bed this fall also they are so over grown and crowarded out each other
I've seen many gardeners pull and replant every spring while the plants are still dormant. Curtis Stone does just this. Less vegetation to deal with. And strawberries definitely don't like crowding.
Kind of random but how aren't you wearing shades on a sunny hot day like that? From Ireland, where we've been getting sooooo much rain after a droughtish March-May
I just started strawberries in pots this year. Should I be worried about rotating pots if they survive winter?
I'm assuming this is only valid for June-bearing strawberries? My two beds are day-neutrals. I planted them this year and will harvest from them next year, then renew them the following year...
In your site the garlic it's out of stock just for now or for the rest of the year ?
Gorgeous work! Hope y’all got a cool drink and a break after all that!
Is this the time of year to do this? Or is there a better time to do this?
We started ours in straw bales- so they are up off the ground. The down side is the slugs and they require a lot of watering. This is year 2 and not produced what I was hoping for. I will keep the best plants and transfer them to a new bed. May winter a few plants in the vegetable crisper.
Are you letting them could you so lot of runners? If so if they are producing runners constantly the mother plant is gonna be sending all of its energy to the baby plant and not on producing fruit
How many raised bed do you have? . Because this is a lot of work and how do you manage to maintain them
I have mine planted in a green stalk tower...how would I protect them from the winter? Will they come back next year?
At the pens on L code your Winter gets. They are going to U be less protected in something like that. They are going to U be less protected in something like that. You could wrap it in something like a bubble wrap or put it in your garage for the Winter just make sure you check it every once in a while to make sure it doesn't get completely dried out.
Do you compost the old plants or is there a disease risk?
How old are the plants you started with?
I bought 4 strawberry plants last year, then rooted all the runners over winter, then planted the 30 runner plants in the ground this Spring. the new plants did not produce much this summer, I pulled all the tiny strawberries and runners that are currently coming in to have the parent plant keep its energy.
The 4 original plants are in gallon pots, and they have produced better fruit, but I was going to plant them in the ground next year.
I was going to move the plants in the ground into the greenhouse to over winter then plant them in another area of the garden next Spring.
I hope I am doing this correctly to omprove the yield from both batches next year.
Do u re plant the same year or next year
Can I dig up my Easter lily bulbs now the flowers are done. They are in the strawberry bed. I want to dig it up and replant. I'm having the same problem. Low productivity. Old plants.
If the roots come from the base not the corm why cant you just cut off the corm? And I have done the same as you and planted two beds at the same time....so could i not just remove the dead and dying stuff and transplant the good ones in to one bed only and start fresh with the other bed? I still will have a season of little or no strawberries but at least i am back in the cycle of only doing one bed at a time? or am i missing something here?
I read the title and thought "GREAT! I've been wanting to see how hard it will be to physically SPIN my raised beds!"
Oh...not THAT kind of rotate....lol!
Thanks I didn’t no that about strawberries now I no what is wrong with mine
But i think cutting the runners off so they are mothers you can make them dense and have loads of fruit. Thats what i did the first few yrs and then i quit doing that. The first few yrs i did this and kept the runners in the bed and clipped them i got dense packed plants and tons of fruit then negleted them. Ive started over this yr i think they kinda work like blackberries in a way
Can you cut part of the old root off?
If you plant deeper, I mean the crown, to encourage the growth of new roots ?, or cut the stem and plant it ?, would it work?
I think the crown tends to rot if you burry them below soil level
You can't Plant the Crown too deep because it will rot by in his case with the soil level depleting he could a centrally just fill it backup when that would probably work but no matter what any strawberry plant 90% of the time, Yes going to decrease in production by the 4th year...
@@ginger_wby and if cut the stem?, and then plant
@@ElderandOakFarm so the only way is with new plants?
@@CorolaImperial after about the 4th year they will begin to decrease their production. You can still keep them, they just aren't going to do as well as of you planted fresh ones.
This year all of our strawberries are going into my vertical hydroponics. Just got to work out how to root the runners so that we can refresh the crop. Also tempted to put the excess around the fruit trees, with strawberries being shallow rooted can't see them harming the fruit trees.
How often do you have to do this?
@migardener ARE YOU ITALIAN? YOUR HANDS SAY YOU ARE! 🤣
Can you cut the roots off of an old plant and re-root the mother plant?
How did you winterize the strawberry bed like that big??!
Ok Luke, what should I do with a strawberry tower? Just take them out, refresh the soil and replant the best?
Some of his plans are for years old you do not need to do this if you just planted them this year they will be fine for a couple years. Also with them being in a tower they're not constantly producing new plants so they are gonna have more energy to keep producing lots of good fruit that way. The ones planted in the ground that are allowed to produce runners and baby plants get drained of their energy a lot faster. Always explain it like this it's like a mother and a baby and the umbilical cord, Every mother is constantly getting pregnant and the baby is always taking nutrients from her through the umbilical cord she is not going to have that much energy!
They have been in 3 years, and make tons of babies every year that I tuck into other pockets in my garden tower.
@@faithevrlasting Then I would probably suggest switching them out with babies
What type of strawberry are you growing that you find to be so invasive? We have a large yard, and we would like to dedicate an entire patch to strawberries, so runners would be helpful!
I wish I had that problem! I have just one strawberry plant.
For now, I had 4 and now I can’t tell you how many I have I lost count 🤣
@@amaterasu-9114 I'm waiting for that anxiously!
@@solmma probably need to replant and change the soil
I was waiting myself last year
Then I re-pot and put compost in bed early Spring
And I have so much strawberries and it fruited three times this year
Even strawberries and blossoms on still and today is the 24/8/20
I had so much runners its too much to count
I started taking out giving away and selling
As it's running everywhere
I had four plants originally
A friend of mine has had a Strawberry patch in his garden for decades without needing ANY work, mind you his garden is wild apart from a couple Cherry plum Trees, and a mature Pear Tree, that self seeded!.
That sounds like the strawberry variety that you want to plant! One that is well balanced and doesn't burn itself out~ I've seen strawberry-patch-burnout twice, once across the alley and several years later of our own patch, and I let the strawberry plants do what they wanted, with no fancy tips applied to them for the entire time. The runners drowned out the entire patch, along with cooked leaves from rust and a cold, dry winter. Strawberry varieties are bred for sale-ability of the strawberries, and other things like resilience end up getting bred out in the process. Spread that variety to the corners of the earth, we will need it~
Loriful You are absolutely right, I will go and see my old friend and get some of his patch, I was thinking of growing Wild Strawberries, as I like the idea of wild food plants, but my friends I think would be best for me. Plus I’ll be spreading the variety, as you said.
@@Kiyarose3999 yes! What he said!
Creatively Candace ?
@@Kiyarose3999 meant what loriful said! I agree with what he/she said. Get some of those plants...
Okay, question right off the top - rotate strawberries?? After several years? They take three years to establish in the first place. Several of the other top gardening channels say rotating is a commercial farming tactic and not required for the home gardener. ??
Curtis stone pulls and replants every year
A strawberry patch left alone for several years will burn itself out by covering itself in runners.
Strawberries can be harvested the year after planting- it shouldn't take 3 years for establishment. I've actually harvested the first year and got nice berries the first and second years, but they say it's better for root development to wait till the year after.
@@NashvilleMonkey1000 yes, but simply pull them just as you would weeds. Just thinking about strawberry farms, what do they do? Certainly not pulling established, productive plants.
@@largefamilyruralliving7434 must be the variety as even the packages for strawberries say it takes a year before you should consider allowing the plants to flower. Dunno, fruiting plants are finicky. After almost 6 years our 20ft of raspberry canes finally produced. 45 lbs harvested this year.
hi, Are they going to dormacy by now? Thanx
They won't go dormant in Michigan til, like, December.
I was looking for the proper medium for my plants, my plants have been non-productive the last few years.
I cut some of the runners off and I still end up with a hot hot mess
I put strawberries in this year and they took over everything. Got to figure out what to do about it. That did not produce anything worth while
Next year will be great! My first year the strawberries went crazy like you described yet produced almost no yield. The 2nd year, my oh my, a back yard of strawberries!
If you don't cut the runners when they begin to try to take root and produce a new plant then the mothers draw Barry plant will constantly be sending all of its energy into the baby plants it's kind of like an umbilical cord from the baby to the mother the baby is getting food from the mother.... lol. So like the other person commented, Next year you should have a good harvest but if you let all of those plants continue to make runners next year you won't have a good harvest.
We started with 6 plants and now have probably 200 or 300 plants everywhere
How do you protect them in the wintertime
I don't know how he does it but what I do is take a bunch of fall leaves and put them on top of the plants once they have died back you don't want to do this if they still have fresh green growth because that will kill the plant.I don't know how he does it but what I do is take a bunch of fall leaves and put them on top of the plants once they have died back you don't want to do this if they still have fresh green growth because that will kill the plant
Strawberries are quite resilient to cold winters, especially if they are covered by snow. Wetness, excessive rain, and freezing temperatures without snow can be an issue, though.
Thank you both
You should sell me some of the old plants you have on your website. I'd highly appreciate it. It's become impossible to find plants
Would pruning them work?
It helps.
I rejuvenate mine every year.
End of July, I cut every single one of them off above the crown and fertilize!
@@mngardener9257 I've never tried that. I thought it might shock and stunt next years growth. No?
@@nedcramdon1306 as long as you don't do it too late in the season.
I literally cut 99% of the green off (I leave any small new green) and remove it from the bed.
The first time is scary, but they grow back so green and healthy with enough time to send out runners too!
Sadly this doesn't work in Florida cuz it is too hot 😥
Is this why the oldest plants in my bed are now producing disformed berries?
Probably!
Where is the AFTER picture? =)
My.grandpa never moved his...there for 60 years
I planted 50 roots this year and only had a couple grow
That is a bummer.
Same. I planted my first strawberry plants this year but they took off growing, leafing, and runner-ing (lol). I got 3 teeny tiny strawberries. I think you let them establish then get a good yield the following year 🌱
@@jadeperri5183 you're correct. But you also still don't want to let the burgers a bunch of runners or they will be spending all of their energy on sending nutrients and energy to the baby plant
@@ElderandOakFarm true. Now can you cut the runner, separating the mother plant from the new one as soon as it's established or should you wait until the next season? ✌
@@jadeperri5183 I just posted a video on pruning Strawberries if you're interested!
Can you eat the crown?
It sure about the crown, but I've read the leaves are poisonous to humans
@@ginger_wby I read you can make tea from the leaves. But always check with your doctor. Actually now not sure if they meant those big main leaves on the plant or the little leafy top of the fruit 🤔
Always put strawberries in containers.
Why can’t you just mound around the strawberries?