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Show STRAWBERRY IS VERY HARDY Plant Is Often Injured by Alternate Freezing and Thawing Mulching Mulch-ing Is Necessary. The strawberry plant is very hardy, standing severe and continued freezing freez-ing weather, but is often injured by alternate freezing and thawing, therefore we must cover to prevent this injury. Any coarse, strawy material, ma-terial, - like old hay, straw, leaves pine needles or strawy stable manure can be used for this purpose. Only a thin covering is needed, just enough to prevent thawing until thf warm weather of spring. Most growers grow-ers of strawberries delay cqvering until the ground becomes frozen so that a team may be driven over the ground without cutting It; but it is better In the home garden to cover the bed as soon as the ground begins to freeze. Blackberry canes may be protected in the same manner, but the roots must be started with a fork so that the bending shall not come upon the canes, which would be broken if bent over. : |