Summer Strawberries.........Cycle of Life..

I cleaned up the strawberry stock plants yesterday - there are still a few tiny berries on them.
That means I took off the old leaves and thinned them out.
Tossed in some fertilizer and a copper spray due to all the rain.
Now we wait for new runners to develop so we can cut and root them for next years plants.
Then we toss the old plants.
This little cycle has worked for 5 years with the same plants.
Of course we only grow a dozen plants.
These plants give us all the berries we can stand from January thru May.
We pick a lot, eat a lot and freeze the rest of the berries for MM's fresh strawberry jam.
Awesome.......