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The vast majority of gardeners will tell you that you should not trim or prune strawberry plants. The reason given is that strawberry plants cut back early will stop flowering and fruiting because they put all their energy into growing the trimmed leaves. But this man, despite the puzzled looks of his neighbors, began pruning his strawberry plants. The neighbors tried for a long time to dissuade him, but the result the strawberries produced proved all the gardeners wrong. So what is pruning strawberry plants good for? The opposite is true: strawberry plants that are regularly pruned continually strengthen and next year they will reward you with much larger quantities of fruit.
What may have led him to take the risk
Despite all the warnings from experts and experienced gardeners, the man simply decided to try what would happen to the strawberry plants if he regularly trimmed the plants after each harvest of ripe fruit. The man decided to remove all leaves of the strawberry plants that were not completely healthy. That means he removed all dried, red, and yellow leaves. All these leaves may have an early-stage infection that can be very dangerous for the plant, so it is much better to remove the leaves for preventive reasons to avoid the plant dying precisely because of an infection.
Pruning after harvest
Exactly for the reasons mentioned above, the man began removing potentially infected leaves to prevent the spread of infection and the subsequent death of the plants. The sooner you remove the bad leaves, the greater the chance you have of keeping the whole plant healthy so that it will grow and bear fruit next season as well. If you take good care of it, the plant will reward you next season with a large amount of tasty, good fruit. If you remove unsuitable leaves from the plants already in summer, the strawberry plants will be able to recover from the pruning and prepare for winter. Thanks to this, they will survive the winter without the slightest problems, wake up in spring, begin to flower abundantly, and you will enjoy large yields.
