Right now in a lot of areas in Europe climate is quite cold – temperatures are low. Whereas some growers have flowering crops in unheated tunnels and night temperatures from around -8oC.
For soil grown strawberries there are some possibilities to prevent damage:
– normally i count for every 5oC of frost at least 1 cover with fleece (if no wind)
– During flowering every minus is allready dangerous
– A wet soil helps a lot in radiation of heat out of the soil and keeps temperatures better under a cover
– Close and cover early, so the soil has time to warm up.
Below 2 pictures of strawberries covered with fleece. The first one with old fleece, the second with new fleece.
color: the more in the direction of blue, the colder; the more in the direction of orange, the warmer.
