Strawberry plants - dead leaves

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SUTTY1

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Re: Strawberry plants - dead leaves
« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2010, 22:35 »
I've got my stawbs growing thru' weedfabric and slugs love to over-winter there and lay their eegs there. I'm not a fan off slug pellets but set beer traps in spring, got over 100 slugs this year and little plant damage :D

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Re: Strawberry plants - dead leaves
« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2010, 23:05 »
Drunken slugs?

I'm pretty keen on using straw... it gives the slugs something to munch on if they must and distracts them from my beer strawberries. It's hard work for a slug clambering over and through straw. The straw dries quickly after rain so reduces humidity around the plants and discourages slugs from enjoying a sauna... they are not so keen on a relatively dry environment where the sun can shine. The soil underneath can "breathe".

Straw also makes for a better (IMHO) resting place for the strawberries to ripen until I turn up and enjoy searching for them.  ;)

At the end of the season, when the straw begins to break down, it can be forked in and adds to the texture of the soil. 
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Re: Strawberry plants - dead leaves
« Reply #17 on: November 25, 2010, 23:30 »
That all makes good sense learner!

I mainly use the fabric because i have quite rampant marestail and with the strawberries being in for 3/4 yrs, find it keeps it under control

As for the drunken slugs they get feed to the alcoholic chickens :) :)

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Re: Strawberry plants - dead leaves
« Reply #18 on: November 25, 2010, 23:32 »
That all makes good sense learner!

I mainly use the fabric because i have quite rampant marestail and with the strawberries being in for 3/4 yrs, find it keeps it under control

As for the drunken slugs they get feed to the alcoholic chickens :) :)

And your choice makes good sense to me too!  :)

(Lucky chickens!! - nice eggs I bet!)
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Re: Strawberry plants - dead leaves
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2010, 22:39 »
What I generally do is at the end of the growing season is to set light to the straw that has helped keep the strawbs of the ground, this kills any diseased,dead leaves etc. This dosn,t harm the main plant, and it will happily produce a crop the following season.
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