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I have 4 varieties of strawberries and this is their second year. 3 varieties are impeccably behaved they have a reasonable amount of leaves and lots of good sized fruit - enough to share with all my neighbours - yesterday I picked 3.5 lbs in 20 mins.The other lot are Florence late fruiting variety. They have a lot of small fruit setting and a huge amount of foliage and runners. I have just noticed they also have wooly aphids. I planted them at the recommended distance apart but think there is so much foliage that there is no air circulating round the plants and as there are lots of blind fruit the flowers were probably hidden under all the foliage. This morning I have trimmed back a lot of the leaves and cut off any runners - is this the right thing to do? What is best to put on the woolly aphids - I have Neem oil.?.
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I use a weak solution of ecover washing up liquid in a spray bottle for all my aphid issues on climbing beans, it seems to be strong enough to diminish the aphids without affecting the fruit flavour or plant growth. I've not tried it on my strawberries but, can't see why it would be any different.I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.
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