Putting our strawberries to bed

Have you ever put strawberries to bed?

What a strange think to say.

Well, that's what we did the other week during Discovery Time.

First, 

we removed any weeds from the  strawberry patch and picked the ripe strawberries to eat.

Next, 

we carefully lifted the strawberry plants and put hay underneath them, 

so they were sitting on a bed of hay.

Then,

we gathered sticks and put them around the edge and in the middle of the strawberry patch.

After that,

we put the netting over the strawberries so the birds couldn't get to them.

Now, are strawberries have been "put to bed."

A bonus for the school chickens, is that they get to eat the yummy weeds!