Cold Spell Coming

I have dug up my old alpine strawberry bed, separated the plants into several clumps and stuck them in pots until I get a strawberry planter next week. Will they be ok in the cold snap forecast? It will be on or below freezing here. The pots are sitting on the patio in a south facing position.

 

Strawberries are pretty hardy Fu

Only the flowers might get a touch of frost, commercial growers mist them as the temperature drops so they get a film of ice over them to protect them from further damage, or did I dream that bit? Kristen will tell me if I did

 

Ok that's great ta - they nowhere near getting flowers yet.

 

If you did dream it, you might have been reading the same horticultural science book as me before you went to sleep. It says that commercial fruit grows (not specifically strawbs, just fruit in general) turn on the mist when sub zero temperatures are forecast. Water is remarkably good at storing heat (latent heat), so by doing this, the mist droplets have to freeze before the freezing temps get through to the plant that they cover.