I dug up all the old plants after the fruit stopped and made a new bed from the runners. Having been away for a few weeks I am starting to tidy up now for the winter. Weeded the new strawberry bed and found loads of green fruit, I cut them all off and deflowered a load more. I would rather the plants to be making roots than wasting energy on fruiting. I did also cut off loads of older leaves just leaving the juvenile ones, mainly to mark where the plants are so I whip around with the hoe now and again. Should I just let them hibernate now or should I give them a feed? They all had some chicken pellets when I planted the bed out but that was about 3 months ago. Everything else is also growing like it is spring, small tomato and potato plants, beans that have dropped, even a courgette, spring sprouting broccoli is in full swing and tons of annual weeds. Could do with a cold snap really.
