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Originally Posted by Rachel W
I have a question about strawberries in general. If strawberries are not picked from the plant one year, will you get more, less, or the same amount the next year?
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I would think the same. if left to rot on th plant. Which IMHO is a very bad idea attacting bugs, fungi, and other diseas problems. I remove all damaged, or rotted berries from the area ASAP. If you pick the flowers off the first year, you should get more berries the 2nd year as the roots would be well established. I myself have seen very little benefit to this. With other fruits I have like blueberries and fruit trees. I don't see much difference. the plants are so vigorous to begin with, mine never had a problem establishing. My biggest problem is more in controlling the spread of runners.