With winter coming I'm getting nervous about losing my strawberry plants. I really don't want to have to buy new plants next year - I spent a lot of time and energy working to keep the ones I have away from the squirrels. So I started searching for answers.
Apparently strawberries like to go dormant during the winter. We can cover them with mulch or hay, if they're planted in the ground, or move them to a dark shed for the winter. But, that seems a little sad to me.
Then I found out that we can dig the entire plant out of the ground and move it to a container to "save" it. Hey, cool. See this section called "Storing Strawberry Plants (Non-Bare Root)" on this page: http://strawberryplants.org/2010/11/storing-bare-root-strawberry-plants/
They call it "overwintering" strawberries. I like to think of it as "saving" them. :)