Hey guys,
I kinda burned myself out this year and basically forgot all about gardening in the fall months. As part of that, I forgot to cover my row of strawberry plants. I finally established a long (~35 foot 30" wide) bed of strawberries only to forget to cover them for winter. Obviously, we just went through quite the cold spell here in Wisconsin and all over the country. We had single digit, even just below zero temps for days on end. I believe they did have some snow covering them for the majority of this. Are all my plants likely to be dead now!? Is there anyway to check whether or not they have survived that cold spell? Things are starting to melt now so I should be able to check the plants. I feel like such an idiot for forgetting. Sigh.
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We often bought what they call 60 day runners. These are plants lifted in the early spring while still dormant. They are then cold stored until we planted them in late June. Then 60 days later they gave us an autumn crop and then followed up with an early spring crop under glass protection.MoonShadows wrote:I never knew they were stored frozen.JONA wrote:Bare root runners are regularly stored frozen so that they can be planted at various times of the year to ensure round the year cropping. No harm to them at all.
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Well, I be darned!JONA wrote:We often bought what they call 60 day runners. These are plants lifted in the early spring while still dormant. They are then cold stored until we planted them in late June. Then 60 days later they gave us an autumn crop and then followed up with an early spring crop under glass protection.MoonShadows wrote:I never knew they were stored frozen.JONA wrote:Bare root runners are regularly stored frozen so that they can be planted at various times of the year to ensure round the year cropping. No harm to them at all.
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