Harvest and process strawberries

When fertilizing strawberries, the rule of thumb is: one third before flowering, two thirds after harvest. So in August (at the end of the month) is the main annual fertilizing in the strawberry bed, so that the plants still grow vigorously until autumn and form new flower buds for the next year.

Since the size of the fruit and yield of strawberries decrease with each year, after three to four years at the latest, the crop should be completely renewed and a new strawberry bed should be planted in a different place in the garden. August is the ideal time for this.

At the latest at the main harvest time, it can be seen which strawberry plants bear particularly well. Only so-called best bearers should be used for propagation, because low-yielding mother plants usually pass on this negative characteristic to the young plants.