We talk about strawberry plants. I thin out our strawberries so we can keep getting strawberries for many years. Thinning June-Bearing vs. Everbearing vs. Day-Neutral Strawberries. Not all strawberries are created equal, and their growth habits affect how you should approach thinning. I didn't thin the ones out on my plot that I took over.. There's over 100 plants in a bed about 7' x 7' - alot were runners. It's extremely overgrown, but still producing a lot of strawberries. I need to finish thinning out my strawberries and mint in my raised bed, and plant a few things yet. #garden #outdoors. Remove one, keep one. Strawberries, need thinning to 2 per pod. However, they have multiple stems per plant. So how many plants are sprouted here, and what should I pull out? Learn how to train and prune strawberry plants for optimal fruit production. Explore popular systems, essential techniques, and tips for healthy and high-yielding strawberry crops. When to ThinStrawberry Patches Wait until the plants go dormant to thin out overgrown strawberry beds.Try to thinstrawberry beds before late summer rains revive the plants. Strawberrythinning process. Close-up of a sanitary worker's hands in bright orange gloves using black pruning shears to trim young strawberry runners in a strawberry bed. Use a lawnmower for strawberry bed renewal when you haven't planted the strawberries in rows. Set the mower blades on the highest setting and mow the bed... Thinning a strawberry bed is probably the most important maintenance step you can take. It may seem drastic, but mowing the patch back is the best pest control method you can take. Wait until the plants go dormant to thin out overgrown strawberry beds. Dormancy begins four to six weeks after the harvest and lasts until the bed gets some drenching rains. Yes, strawberry beds tend to become overcrowded with plants if not thinned annually. Plants are jammed against each other so that competition for light and nutrients reduces fruit yield. Thin out and replanting strawberry plants shouldn’t happen until late spring, but I haven’t done it yet. Is that just because I’m lazy? So that’s what I got done last week – two new strawberry beds with about 40 new transplants in them. I have time (and plenty of runners yet to thin in the original bed)...
