Priscilla H. Ballou wrote:
Boron Elgar wrote:

I grow strawberries for show, I swear...with what the critters leave
me, it is an exercise in futility.

Heh! I can relate. I get a few berries while I'm doing my garden work,
but not enough for a dish.... yet. The plants are expanding, and I hope
to add the adjacent bed into the strawberry fields next year.

I got hoops and netting to put over them, but Irene came along just
then, and I put off installing them.

i hope that helps.

i've really enjoyed my patch this season
and now that i've started some everbearing
plants i've eaten a few here or there all
season. one plant just bloomed again so
i might sneak one more berry in before
the weather turns inhospitable.

my one patch is now expanding to three
patches, so i can have more to put up. i
eat too many and we give away enough to not
have left me much this year to make jam with.
so next year i hope to do a little better.
and perhaps i'll try not to eat quite so
many.

i still have to finish thinning the first
patch out. one edge to go and that should
give me more plants to continue the takeover
of one of the bean patches. it will be a
good use of the space for a few seasons.


songbird *oink*