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Aberdeenplotter that's pretty much what we intend to do. The strawbs we inherited were planted right up against a nettley hedge, so this year we blitzed the plants closest to the hedge so we could get right round to weed and build a frame for netting.
It's hard to decide which cutting back or clearing up method to go for, this thread is quite mixed on the subject, but whatever, we'll let the runners come another foot or so further out into the veg patch, then cull the ones nearest the hedge when they start to struggle. I don't know how old the plants are, but this is our third summer here, they were all here already when we moved in, and they're doing really well. I don't think I could bring myself to kill off a plant to schedule rather than in response to its state.
It's hard to decide which cutting back or clearing up method to go for, this thread is quite mixed on the subject, but whatever, we'll let the runners come another foot or so further out into the veg patch, then cull the ones nearest the hedge when they start to struggle. I don't know how old the plants are, but this is our third summer here, they were all here already when we moved in, and they're doing really well. I don't think I could bring myself to kill off a plant to schedule rather than in response to its state.
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