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    My summer fruiting strawberry plants (variety "Alice") finished fruiting late June and I removed all the old leaves and tidied up the bed. Ten weeks later, the plants have all produced a mass of new leaves and look better and healthier than they did pre-fruiting.
    They are not producing any new flowers.
    My question is should I cut back the new growth now to enable the plants to re-grow again before the winter or let them over-winter as they are and cut back early spring.
    I have just cut back my everbearing strawberry plants and these are showing new growth after a few days.

  • #2
    I don't think there is any benefit to removing anything thats not dead

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    • #3
      Monty Don went at his with the shears on GW the other week!

      Always give mine a bit of a trim for the winter.
      Are y'oroight booy?

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      • #4
        The new growth will be feeding the roots for the winter - unless they are showing disease/dying off, if you cut them off now you will stress the plant unnecessarily. I am guessing Monty hadn't trimmed his post-fruiting and was doing it then.
        http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbia

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        • #5
          Thanks for replies.

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          • #6
            Hello,

            I didn't realise that I had to cut back old growth after fruiting. I've just been out attacking the runners and came in to Google when I could cut the leaves - I think I was expecting them to die back or something. Would it be too late to cut back now?
            http://www.weeveggiepatch.blogspot.com

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            • #7
              Just cut out the dead and grotty leaves and leave the rest as is.

              Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

              Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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              • #8
                Thank you Alison!
                http://www.weeveggiepatch.blogspot.com

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