This is called “vivipary”. The seeds on the strawberry plant are sprouting using the strawberry fruit as a source of food and water. If you are patient, you can separate the little sprouts and plant them in a soil media and grow. While not common, it can occur in overripe stressed fruits.
This time of the year when many of the spring-blooming plants are long done and the summer-blooming ones are fading out. You want a little more color to take you to frost and beyond, try fall-blooming aster plants. These plants are deer and rabbit resistant.
Try my favorite flower, the aster. Much tougher than mums, they will come back for many years. Many varieties growing from 1 to over 4 feet tall with a rounded growth shape. The colors are from white to pink and red to purple. If you pinch the stems back in June, you will get more buds.
Do not get these workhorses confused with the China aster or pompon aster. These are single to double flowers which bloom in the spring and again in the fall as annuals. China asters have bigger blooms but are much more delicate to grow.
The wild aster is a white flower blooming on roadsides and other places this time of the year. The word aster is Greek for star. There is a species native to most countries including this country. Queen Victoria planted them and Thomas Jefferson cultivated the China aster.
How do I prepare my lawn for winter? Keep watering if it dries out. This will allow the grass to go dormant healthy.
Now, this is the time to control your perennial weeds. In the fall the weeds are growing, most of the time there is less wind, and the temperature is cooler. Use any broadleaf herbicide for lawn use, follow the directions.
Late season fertilizer application will help the lawn go dormant and be there for early spring growth. You can fertilize until October 1. Make sure your ground is moist before applying fertilizer.
If you have a thatch problem, now is the best time to remove it, allowing 4 to 6 weeks to recover before the soil freezes. If the thatch is thicker than ½ inch, remove it.
There is still time to overseed your lawn to make it thicker. If you are going to sod the area, start now.