strawberry help please

I have a strawberry patch that is very heavily foliage, I think it's overcrowding the fruit and preventing air flow and sunlight thus ripening, should I trim out some of the excess leaves? Thank you in advance for any help.

 

Hi Cindy

From what you have said in your post they are growing/planted to close to each other , I agree with Looffah again some but not all leaves, the more you expose the more the birds will spot them


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