Winter Advice

Hi all, just wanted to check a few things before winter really sets in, we seem to have skipped autum here and gone direct to bitter winter cold and rain, I planted a small cherry tree about 6 months ago, (about 5 foot tall) the leaves have just all dropped off, its quite exposed so should i wrap it in garden fleece or something? (never used the stuff before so don't know what i'm doing) last year we had a lot of deep snow so its likely to be 2/3 foot deep around the tree some days
Also, i've grown some rhubarb from seed, planted it out a few months ago and it was looking quite good but a lot of the stalks are dropping off now, does it die back for winter or is it dying?
And should i do anything with my strawberries? there in a huge planter next to the house, looking quite happy at the moment but i'd be gutted to loose them in the comming months...

And while i'm here i would like to say a huge thank you to you all, you'll never know how much help you'll all been since i joined, i lurk more than i post and i've learnt so much and its discovered it so wonderous to grow and eat your own food, and i'm so looking forward to next spring!

Cherry tree should be fine.
Say hello to it as you walk past it.
Remeber to prune it in the summer months not Autumn/Winter, the damp increases the chance of a fungus infection on cherries.

Rhubarb does die back in the winter, it should start throwing up new stalks next year, did you give it a lot of manure, Rhubarb likes a good feed.

Strawberries should be OK but make sure the planter doesn't get too cold, possibly  a protective wrap of fleece could be useful. Strawberry's I had were fine in the ground but a planter can get cold enough to freeze and so clobber the strawberries. Unless it gets really cold again I would not worry greatly.

Strawberries will eventually deteriorate as they get virus infections over time so after a few years they will need replacing. Also by then the infection could be in the soil so new plants get infected immediatly. Again sounds worse then it really is but if the cropping drops off over a couple of years keep in mind to replace.

I have concerns about my strawbs too. I put half of them inside the (unheated) greenhouse and the other half of them are outside up against it. It's going to be their first Winter and it's also my first with the greenhouse. Do the ones inside need some kind of protection? I'm presuming everything freezes over inside the greenhouse too?