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I read in an old book that it used to be normal to burn off the dead strawberry leaves in Winter; apparently the growing points survived and flourished.I wonder if a lick with a flamer might get rid of everything in the bed except strawberries? But I'm not going to buy one to find out - and I would certainly do a trial patch and see how it does next year - (or dig out enough runners first so you could repopulate the whole bed next spring).I could try my electric heat gun on the back garden bed (if I was even more gung-ho than I am), but I suspect the 'Hindenburg effect' might be crucial - where 90% of the heat from normal flames goes up, whereas a heat gun would concentrate it at ground level...Cheers.