Over winter help for cherries and strawb's

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    Apart from chucking on loads of 'oss muck', what else can I do to ensure a good crop of both cherries and strawberries next year?

    Cheers, Tony.
     
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    I would also like to know this on relation to strawberries and blueberries. Both produced a nice tasting crop - but not as big as I had hoped.
     
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    Remove the old straw and netting so birds can get into the strawberry plants and pick off bugs. Pull off old damaged leaves. Remove excess runners, use them in another bed to build up stock as strawberries exhaust themselves after 3 years.
     
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