How to Trim Strawberries

Before you trim or prune your strawberries, you must identify them as a June-bearing, everbearing or day-neutral type. June-bearing strawberries produce lots of fruit in the spring and include varieties such as Delmarvel and Seneca. Everbearing strawberries produce fruit two to three times during the year and include varieties such as Ft. Laramie and Ogallala. Day-neutral strawberries continuously grow fruit from spring until fall and include varieties such as Tristar and Tribute. Once you determine the type, trim or prune your strawberry plants according to their type.

Hand clippers
Lawn mower
Sickle or pruning shears

Instructions

- 1
  Trim the flowers off of June-bearing plants the first year. Do not let them fruit. You will be rewarded with well-rooted, large plants that produce lots of fruit the following year.
- 2
  Prune June-bearing strawberry plants after harvesting in early to mid-summer, using a lawn mower set to approximately 1-1/2 to 2 inches high. Rake and remove the debris. The plants are now ready for fertilizer and water, and the areas between the rows are ready to be rototilled and weeded. For smaller planting, use a sickle or pruning shears to trim back the plants 1 inch above their crowns.
- 3
  Trim the flowers off of everbearing and day-neutral strawberries until the end of June the first year of planting. Then allow them to flower and produce fruit. In subsequent years, you do not need to remove the flowers. Mowing plants after harvesting is also not necessary.

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