It’s spring and chances are your strawberry patch looks like this:
Strawberry bed rejuvenation is very straight forward but it is also an essential part of strawberry care. The bed pictured above is an example of a ‘matted-row’ planting system, but the following guidelines apply for most home-garden strawberry patches. Remove all dead foliage, thin plants to 4-6 inches apart, and add fertilizer (ours is 4% Nitrogen(N), 4% Phosphorus(P), 3% Potasium(K), but any all-purpose organic vegetable garden fertilizer will work). After you clean up your strawberry patch should look something like this:
