With the sun shining for more than 5 mins, I decided to properly check on my overwintering strawberries. I trimmed away all the dead brown leaves and a lot of the straw mulch to see if they had survived and what re-growth had taken place.
To my delight I found that all of the regular strawb had survived the winter in my garage and it appears that it was worth my efforts watering them every 3 days or so for the past months. Another bonus was that I found a plant label so I now know the variety of half my plants - Elsanta - a highly recommended variety to try, considered by the RHS to be an improvement on the Cambridge Favourite. The most successful is pictured.
I'm not sure yet how two pots of strawberries have faired. I gathered a large number of plantlets from runners last year and repotted them up 5 to a medium sized square pot. I cleared them in the same manor but couldn't see any real green growth as of yet.
I also cleared a couple of pots of Pineberries, one was my original plant which still had some green leaves from last year and the other was entirely formed of plantlets from runners (which again had little regrowth).
Lastly for today, I also cleared my original Leo Alba White Alpine Strawberry which still had a lot of green from last season but also plenty of new growth, identifiable by reddish stems.
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