Wait a few days until it dries. Try to plant strawberries on a cloudy day or during the late afternoon. Set the strawberry plant in the soil so that the soil is just covering the tops of the roots. Do not cover the crown. After four or five weeks, the plants will produce runners and new daughter plants.
Strawberries are very susceptible to frosts in the spring.
Mulches that have covered the plants during the winter months should be removed in the early spring when the strawberry leaves show yellow but should be left in the aisles to cover the blossoms in the spring when frost is predicted. This system is the best for growing June-bearing cultivars. Daughter plants are allowed to root freely to become a matted row no wider than two feet. This system limits the number of daughter plants that grow from a mother plant. The daughter plants are spaced to root no closer than four inches apart.