Above is pictured a Fall set Strawberry bed. Each plant is covered 
with 3 quarts of pine sawdust after the ground freezes or shortly before. 
Of plants set last Fall, our loss was about one percent. 
Cover each plant set in the fall with about three quarts of pine 
sawdust after or shortly before the ground freezes, to keep them from 
heaving. Eight or 10 inches in diameter and three or four inches deep 
is enough for strawberries. Brush it off the crowns in the spring, leaving 
the rest on the ground to work into the soil. 
Pine sawdust around most any small fruit plants in the fall is a 
good thing to prevent heaving. You will find fall set plants make more 
runners than when set in April and will bear a larger crop. It will save 
much valuable time in the spring that can be used for other work. 
From our own experience, we can highly recommend fall planting. 
We do most of our setting that way now. 
7000 QUARTS TO THE ACRE 
From Everbearing Strawberries by the 
Sawdust Mulch System 
This is possible the first growing season and the same amount the 
second year under the spaced row system, if the soil conditions are 
favorable. 
It is being done in home gardens and in larger commercial plant- 
ings. See diagram showing method of planting. Use such varieties as 
Gem, Streamliner, and Superfection for best results and set your plants 
early in April, if possible. 
This revolutionary new system has increased interest in growing 
Everbearing Strawberries tremendously. Plants are set in rows one foot 
apart, plants one foot apart in the row. Plant four such rows, then 
leave a space of two feet to provide a path. Then plant four more rows 
and another path, and so on. 
The first crop of weeds usually appears two or three weeks after 
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