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Show Spring Is Best Time for Planting Strawberries Late summer or fall is not the best time for planting strawberries. You cannot hope to get a full crop next year, from fall planting. Spring Is the best time. That gives the entire season sea-son for growth and will Insure a full crop the following year. l'lants set out now will only give u few berries next season. Keep away from the old bed ; take a new piece of ground as clean as possible, In good shape and well drained. riow or spade It up and ninke the surface as fine and level as possible. Then, following a little rain, dig up strong, healthy runners, run-ners, leaving a small amount of dirt around the root, and transplant them as quickly as possible In the new bed. Put them in rows four feet apart and about eighteen inches In the row. |