More strawberries next year!

Now is the time to get your new strawberry seedlings propagated for next year. Just peg a runner from the parent plant onto a pot of soil with a bent paper clip and eventually it will set its own roots so you can sever the 'umbilical' cord when it establishes itself. More strawberries next year!

Today's lunch

My lunch today will comprised of quiche from down the street, cucumbers from the backyard and strawberries from the front yard. What are you having for lunch?

First strawberry for the season

The first strawberry for the season..YAY! This is a Hokowase strawberry, one of four I have growing in the front raised bed. Together with twelve other strawberry plants of three different varieties in the same bed I hope to have a bumper crop this season. First time I'm growing strawberries so fingers crossed.

Strawberry flowers

I planted these strawberries back late last summer. They suffered a setback with bug attack and rot when winter hit and I had to cut them back hard. They're doing better now and even flowering. Hopefully I'll get a bumper crop this year before the birds get to them.