Mmmm, our strawberry crop is coming…. Cambridge Early, Florence and Honeye, although I’ve not figured out which is the earliest yet, since they all seem to be coming into fruit.
There’s me! I was allocated weeding last night while Deputy Gardener propped and shot, and Holly (pooch) scampered around with bits of plastic bottle (huh, what else has she been eating?!). The fruit cage isn’t covered yet – first job on saturday, to save our strawberries… and I am fretting about pea moth, too… gah, monsters.
The plot does have a healthy frog population which, I have come to realise, is to account for the extra-super-healthy salad beds (yum, yum, yum) and which we are delighted about. We eat soooo much salad all year that this is a great saving, and we’ve never EVER managed to grow salad in the garden. The solution is, obviously, to get frogs and sow saladini by the handful.
Ooh, here’s another gratuitous strawberry shot. Don’t look at that weed, will you. I missed a few.
Tags: Allotment
