Show Straw Mulch A Mulch A 1 Cover I IFor For the Strawberry berry BedA Bed A blanket f foi i the bed should bo pro provided ed to protect the plants from the se cro drying winds of winter ind from injury due du to the heaving a of the soil mois ture tore Some sort of a mulch mul h covering I is advisable especially in trio toe north northern northern northern ern part of the Middle Wc t or in m re where alternate freezing and tha thawing mj occurs m early winter and in inthe inthe the spring S c Some e muck clay ind sandy loam sOil sal from which thela the tea la to ter does docs doc not drat dral drain readily are arc tally rotor notor ous sf heavers heaver when they freeze and aw and the plants V 1 be thrown tIre tare out of the ground or then broken so 0 they I I a ill dry out In en die Among the tl-tc materials used Bor or mulching are arc manure manur s any pine needles needle wild hay and epa ops OP grown groan for the purpose Stra Straw is perhaps more marc commonly used ar any ani an other o her ma material It shou hou of course be flee from grain and need leed seeds In gen elal the time t mulch is as soon as the ground is us f frozen ozen hard nough to bear working o 0 over r or when tIe tl ti e a punts have ceased active growth The mulch much should Be e a scattered over the beds bedl so 50 that Some me w will l fallon fall on the plants but nu nl of it between the ther r rows ws In the tiring the plants w II 11 grow up h the the- straw and the will ber beres berlles es WI will th be kept clean |