Many gardeners are tormented by the same question: is it worth covering garden strawberries for the winter?
The answer to this question is provided by the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
The specialist named 3 situations in which you simply cannot do without shelter.
1. It is worth taking care of the availability of covering material when young rosettes were planted in a new bed not in the spring, but in the second half of summer or in the fall.
Such bushes do not yet have strong roots, so they are afraid of winter frosts.
2. If you did a radical pruning of strawberries in the fall, you won’t be able to do without cover, no matter what.
Because the bushes have lost their “cap” of leaves, they have become vulnerable to the cold, and even a slight drop in temperature can harm them.
3. The third case is directly related to snow. If the snow cover has not yet fallen to the ground, and frosts have already arrived, help the plants survive this difficult period by throwing agrofibre on the beds.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
