Fall, Winter, and Spring Strawberry Tips & Care: Overwintering, Fertilizing, Propagation & More!

Strawberry plants can freeze and manage well in 20 degree F winters. They can even manage in temperatures as low as 10 degrees F. This is how I fertilize and care for them in the fall. This is a great time to propagate them. Come spring, I feed them 1x and let them go. I keep them outside all winter.

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[victorialg]

I put my runners inside a sandwich bag with about 3/4 cup moist potting soil. Close around the top with a loose twist tie. In about 2-3 weeks there are baby roots and can be moved to their permanent location.

[cwayres]

Could you do a video that talks about fertilizing of plants. Newbies do not know how often or even what to use on each plant. You have hit on it lightly for garden beds, but can you talk more about container gardening.

[Cordeliap]

I'm in north jersey zone 7. I do the same thing with my strawberries every year except I unfold paperclips and use them to pin the plants until they are well rooted, then once they are rooted I remove the pins and cut them free from the mother plant. I have two hanging planters on my front porch with strawberries in them. I leave them on my porch all winter instead of hanging because it gets lots of sun so those don't generally freeze much. They are always the first ones to come back to life in the spring.

[KonjikiKonjiki]

Thanks for the video. My folks grew mostly Fort Laromie and Olalalla strawberry plants in their garden, back when it would get down to forty below twice a year in the winter, and those babies survived it with just the snow on top insulating them. I tried strawberries for the first time this year, thanks for the video letting us know what to do with them at the end of the season. :)

[pd]

Thank you Gary, good information as always. Have a great week

[leahness]

I'm planting strawberries in my garden timing!!! Thanks for the info.🙏❤🙏❤

[vr]

Thanks Gary! This video covered exactly what I was trying to figure out with the strawberries I'm growing in a Greenstalk.

[carriesearskohles]

Super helpful! We bought some towers to try this year and my goal is to fill one with strawberries. Love seeing what you do with the runners and knowing I don't have to buy plants to fill all the pockets. I'm zone 5 but I did hear someone else say they just keep theirs close to the south side of their house over the winter and the plants have survived so far.

[melaniehouston]

Yum! Ty! I wasn’t sure how to add soil to existing plants without burying the crowns. I’ll just add fertilizer and fill the empty pockets with soil! What a concept. 😂. Ty again!

[nosaltiesandrooshere]

👍 Danke fürs Hochladen!
👍 Thanks for uploading!
👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you!
👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!

[janicevon]

I have the same strawberries! This is my first year using the stalk and I was just wondering what I needed to do for them over the winter. I had tried to cut the starts off but they all died. Thank you for posting!

[stassly]

We get total freezes here in Michigan and our strawberries survive. 👍

[nellanddudley]

Zone 7b in Maryland. I loosely mulch mine with pine straw that I remove in spring. On my third year with truly lush plants.

[pa.fishpreacher]

Inverted Clothspins work well too to pin the baby plant into the soil

[pearljamin]

I did a strawberry tower this year. Decided to do it without spending a bunch of time researching. Put a few plants in the top used yard staples to hold runners in place at empty pockets. They had so many babies every pocket is filled and more. Now w I’m here to figure out how to over winter, because in WI I know the odds are stacked against them

[bdaviau]

Great video as always! Completely unrelated question for this video, but on your last Friday ramblings... we had the largest harvest of white grapes ever in CO. I couldn’t figure out what do do with them until someone mentioned raisins and you can also use muscadines. Not sure if the harvest of muscadines was as prolific but using a dehydrator to create raisins was a great way to preserve for the winter months. Wanted to know if you’ve tried that yet. And much empathy to you and other gardeners for the burnout... I didn’t mean to add another laborious preserving suggestion to your already vast wrokload 😀

[Earthy-Artist]

I didn't receive any notification for this new strawberry video & I'm subscribed for notifications. I had realized I hadn't seen a new video from you in a few days & I know you upload videos pretty often so I went to your channel & sure enough there's a new video. It's odd {and annoying} how YouTube does that sometimes!! I wonder if others are not getting notifications? ----Regarding strawberries, I have to add an additional bed I want to grow them so next year we will have a total of three types fruits. So far we have a raspberry hedge, & our ground cherry's were a huge success in 2021 I have 9 plants they really took off in July & Aug. I succession planted the last 3 plants and we still have fruit coming in. Strawberries would be a great addition.

[scribble]

In N.W. Kansas, we can get down to -10 to -24 during the winter. How do I protect my plants for winter?

[UrbanGardeningZone]

Very nice informative video . like ur video . plz stay connected