FRAG A RI A, STRAWBERRY PLANT. 



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or it deteriorates. Since the strawberry plant continues to grow new runners all summer, 

 this curtailment has to be renewed at least every month. Tilling, hoeing, watering, cutting 

 off runners, &c. are the main tasks in cultivating strawberry plants not only during the 

 first year, but also during the three years that they're able to survive. 



V. In spring, when the upright shoots begin to appear, put straw mats up along the 

 southern side (*) of the plant bed to protect the strawberry plants from the constant effect 

 of the sun. They like shade & the shelter of trees. Cover the ground with leaf litter, short 

 straw, or better, dried moss, to maintain coolness & moisture. Steady growth is sustained 

 that way without too many waterings, which if too frequent, greatly diminish the 

 fragrance of the fruit. This is the proper care for all types of strawberry plants. The last 

 one especially is necessary for Alpine strawberry plants that in some areas can't survive 

 without the continued application of moss. A large number of these strawberry plants 

 perish after yielding their fruit, and it's most essential to preserve some of the runners & 

 to set their best-looking offshoots between each plant or between each row to restore the 

 plant bed & to keep it full. It's even possible not to thin out this strawberry plant at all & 

 to obtain a lot of fruit from the offshoots on runners that produce it even before they've 

 taken root. 



At minimum it's superfluous to pinch off the tips of upright shoots & even to cut 

 some off of strawberry plants that have more than four or five in the hope of getting 

 better-looking fruit. A strawberry plant rarely puts out more upright shoots 



(*)When strawberry plants are planted in the middle of 

 areas that are exposed on both sides & are not in espalier plant 

 beds or in gardens enelosed by walls. 



from mid-November to mid-February or later. 

 the straw mats are put up instead on the north 

 side to protect the plants from the cold wind, 

 if one wants to hasten the ripening of the fruit. 



