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Please give me some pointers. My strawberry bed looks like this. Half of it, 50% of it is brown, dried out. There was green growing through it, but as you can see, it looks like this. What have you done to take care of your strawberry bed when it looked like this?
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Might need some fertilizer or some more watering a bit of bolth also inspect the leaves and see if there is some fungal disease
Hey lady! I am no expert but maybe since they’re a spring crop they’re just going dormant for the fall/winter. My bed in zone 5 would start going brown end of summer and early fall and then pop back up early spring each year. Maybe others can spot something else, but that’s my best guess! ❤
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Definitely not an expert but I have a very prolific patch going on 4 years now. The most likely cause here is probably a fungus since it hasn’t started getting cold yet. You can treat it with copper fungicide but in my experience unless you have isolated and spaced plants it’s probably a fools errand. You can also pull off any and all diseased leaves but that’s also gonna take a lot of work for minimal reward. I usually see great returns despite the fungus and the fungus usually gets bad only when it’s really rainy so I don’t worry about it. If you are watering I would stop that though because more wetness will make it worse.
It's just time to give up…..they have a 3 year life span which is why they send out runners. They are not meant to live that long.
Maybe the heat? Cus mine is doing the same and it's been 102 and dry in NM 😢
Mine looked like that so i fertilized and increased watering frequency. They perked up big time!
Hi! Cut the brown leaves and fertilize it with fish emulsion so it can get an immediate boost.
Be blessed!
I had two towers and many of mine died out and the others are also struggling. But trying to bounce back. Even though I was watering I think the heat just took em out and then maybe I was supplementing with too much water. I’m in the south so it’s heat and HUMIDITY. 😢
Are the roots rotten?
Slugs??
I started to watch your video and had to run out and water my hanging strawberries..whew thanks!
Cut the leaves or they could rot. Thats #1.
Then fertilize with manurhe/earth mix and water more!
Sounds wierd but try mulching with straw
Pull out the brown leaves make sure you don't bury the crowns for regrowth, also when you have runners take them out and plant them elsewhere they want to regrow but will find it hard to compete with the other blooms, I'd also use worm castings. Keep your berries hydrated for bigger fruit not saturated. Brown and or yellow leaves come when the fertilizer is too rich, so take a few out plant them somewhere else or start a new bed, cover them with mulch but don't cover the crowns or they will struggle to produce fruit ❤❤
Cut the brown leaves off, throw some coffee grounds in and give them a little more shade.
Mine did this and bounced back after a week of more frequent watering. I removed any brown leaves.
It’s a very case to case problem. For example it could be drainage, watering times, sunlight, pest, fungal or bacterial growth just to name a few. Careful observation, research, and experimenting is your best bet. If your strawberries die off they’ll come back next year. They self propagate and can be quite aggressive even (which I don’t mind usually finding new patches of strawberries that I never planted)
Put Straw in the bed. " Straw berry" 🍓
Give you some what…? Lol that's the most unusual way I've heard someone pronounce the word pointers before
I would maybe offer some shade with garden cloth over your hoops. Let’s enough light in and also helps to deter insects and harsh sunlight. 🫶🏻
It's the end of the season it's inevitable but More water could help the berries are sucking all the water out of the leaves
It's getting hot so…
A little more shade
Squirrels keep eating my strawberries before I can get to them. I catch them on my camera.
Its probably tired! I would clear out the dead stuff so it doesnt get fungal, and then sprinkle in some compost
The amount of water required for these babies is more than I anticipated and apparently they really need fertilizer. I’m not big on using it but I think they’ll usually need it to produce.
Look up permaculture, and companion planting for strawberries, add in an allium like chives or green onions, lemon balm, bergamot or other combos of beneficial plants, mulch deep with straw or grass too
Fish oil and water every day
Strawberry plants only live a few years, which is why they send out runners. Or they could be dying because they are too crowded due to runners being sent out and not snipped off before the main plants were ready to die off.
If it’s been over two years since they have been there strawberry’s start to poison the soil that they are planted in after being there for a couple years
Mine looks like that currently. It was throwing tiny strawberries until August and now it is done. Maybe 50% brown.
Nothing? 😅 my strawberries look like this when it gets too hot. In early very spring like February in the PNW I clear out any dead bits but winter mostly takes care of it. I transplant new runners to any bare spots and generally don’t do much other than feed the worms with a compost bin in my bad.
I had to move mine to a much shadier area to get them looking decent again. And fertilized. Straw mulch and cut the brown leaves off