How do you deadhead a strawberry?

Question

Im growing strawberries and the tag with the plant asked me to regularly deadhead them. I don't know what this means!

Answer 1

Everything, when it comes to care of the strawberry plant, is determined by location and variety as well as the type of cultivation you will use. For sure you will want to keep the stolons pinched back after you have harvested all the berries on that small branch. The flowers will form on small branches (that is the stolen) and will fill out turning from small green to that wonderful sweet red. You will get a few fruits to a stolen. Don't confuse them with runners. In some places the strawberry is planted and fruits harvested that year, and then the plant is turned under and mulched, to be replaced later. In some places the plants are set in late fall to root for the winter and get production in the next year. Not knowing your variety or where you are I would guess that you will want to keep all the stolons pinched off after you get your fruits. This is a good way to prevent diseases and force the plant to produce more stolons, but that is frequently variety dependent, as the spring produces do this only for a limited time, and the day neutrals and everbearers are different. If you have a solid plant of a spring bearing variety you will want to pinch off the runners early in the season to put plant energy into fruit production, then if you want later during the non-productive months, let them runner and re-establish these plants to increase or replace your planting. With other varieties you just keep the runners cut back and keep the plant fruiting till the season is over, but allowing maybe some limited runners to redo you plantings late. Usually one might buy some other plants next season, but all depends on what you expect from your garden. Send me some details on location and variety and I'll check the specifics for you. My guess from what you have said though is to keep the old stolons and the runners cut back to produce well, then keep late fall and winter stolons removed until the next spring if maintaining a patch as a perennial planting. Plants depending on variety, also, can become non-productive after the second or third season, or just replaced if grown as an annual crop.

Answer 2

I thik it means to cut the top of the strawberry after removing it.

Answer 3

Put them in a tye died t-shirt and send them off the a Greatful dead Show :-D

No, what deadheading is is to Pinch the flowers off of the plant. I do this at the base of the flower stalk. Spent time yesterday deadheading about 300 day neutral plants I put in in April. They will get one more round than I will let them go and make berries.

If you have everbearing or day neutral plants remove all runners

For June bearing pants you Deadhead all plants the first year, very depressing work, especially if you expected to get berries the same  year you planted them.

Answer 4

Leaves and flower buds will emerge shortly after planting strawberries.. Pinch off all flowers (this is called deadheading) during the first year in the garden, on June bearing varieties, and all flowers that form until July 1st on ever-bearing and day neutral varieties. This will encourage both plant vigor and production of runners to fill in the mat. Deadheading this years flowers means no crop this year but a much better crop next year and several more years of production.

Answer 5

i dont know