Baz wrote:
Yes, hers are purple too.

I wonder if the purple ones are earlier ripening than the rest. or if I just
happened to plant them out earlier. I may also have put them too near the bees.
I thought it was a good idea to surround the bee hive with the things that
needed polinating, but I got a memory drifting back that they don't like the
pollen to be /too/ near the hive ...

We have strawberries, just had the first ones. The rest will be ripe all
through summer hopefuly.

The ones on the allotment are going through a bit of a migration, as the giant
strawberry patch we inherited was in a bit of a mess, so we've kind of nuked
it and moved the plants to grow through weed blanket on nicer soil (they had
been in the same 1/4 plot sized patch for many years before we had them, and
the soil underneath was like sand - we probably could have resuced it with
feeding and constant weeding, but it was getting too much). Hence I'm not
expecting this year's crop on this patch to be great. But I also have some
on the flowerbed at home, which will be later (more shaded). We also had an
upright pallet that was doing well with them last year, but Nick moved it and
the panels he put in for shelves have collapsed (*sigh*) and he's not got
around to fixing it yet, so that isn't going quite as planned.

Rhubarb is ongoing. Have you over harvested? Normally pick up to October.

This came from a giant split up plant that we only planted where it now is,
umm, think it was last spring. So they've actually done an awful lot better
than they really had to for a first full year's growth. I could probably
take more if I wanted, but it's looking a bit sad, so I think it's time to
give it a rest.