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Will June bearing strawberries flower more than once (after pinching off)?

TheRainyGardenTheRainyGarden Posts: 51
edited April 2021 in Fruit & veg
I heard that I should pinch off the first sets of flowers to encourage leaf growth and then will get more strawberries. I did it for several of my strawberries and then read online that I should not do this with June bearing strawberries other than in their first year. This is their second year, and last year no flowers set fruit anyway I didn't do it right. My question is, now that I've pinched off the flowers... will they grow back?

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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    You may get a couple very late in the year but June bearing strawberries make their flowers in the autumn the year before so pinching them out is not a good idea.
  • TheRainyGardenTheRainyGarden Posts: 51
    Thank you!
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    When strawberries have Finnished fruiting,you cut them back,there's nothing to see over winter.mine were new plants last summer,I bought chilled plants you could allow to fruit in the first year and have never pinched off flowers
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Each year I grow strawberries in rotation. Grow on, flower, fruit (tomato feed at this time and for next step) leave to grow runners, pot runners by pinning onto the soil and leave them to grow, cut runners off in September,  move to a shaded corner for the winter, leave main plants in the bed over winter, when first sign of new shoots cut dead leaves back in spring ( dead leaves just give a bit of protection to the crowns) and use new plants to replace any that aren't thriving. 
    This seems to work for me @TheRainyGarden
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