Hello there my friends it's Kevin from Epic Gardening and today we're talking about

strawberry plants aka straws. How do you prune these bad boys so that you get

really good yield of these beautiful

juicy strawberries really no matter what variety you are planting. So I've done a

couple of different episodes about this in the past

Specifically with my friend Kaleed Maduji the plant charmer now he's really well known for growing strawberries in rain gutters in these vertical A frames and he does it on a commercial

scale so he really has to have his processes dialed in so learning from someone like

him is really informative so what he likes to do is he will prune off all flowers before, let's say, about a month or so of growth.

So he'll do that for about a month or so because he wants to divert all energy towards foliage growth

until there's enough that he feels like he'll have a really nice and healthy

flush of flowers and the strawberry fruits. So this is a technique that I tested in my

herb slash strawberry bed and I think I went a little longer. I went maybe six weeks or

so of pruning off the flowers and sort of just hoping that that would work out and it actually really did.

So what I noticed is the strawberries, as long as I caught the flowers early on before they really

started to develop, because the know the longer they develop the more

energy is being effectively wasted on something that you're going to cut off anyways so I

like to go out every one to two to three days and just clip with my micro-tip pruners off even the very, very small flower buds because

that's going to just stop wasting as much energy.

Anyway, so I did that and it kept throwing out new leaves and now I have a massive

flush of strawberries just getting ready to come to harvest. So turns out that

technique works pretty well. These are all ever-bearing varieties.

Now there are some classic methods for how to prune strawberries that I will go over.

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