Some of this autumn's new strawberry plants, grown from this summer's runners, have decided that it's already springtime:
Some of this autumn's new strawberry plants, grown from this summer's runners, have decided that it's already springtime:
Finished today - a job which we started two years ago but which was interrupted by unforeseen events.
We believe it to be bird-proof, unless they arrive armed with wire-cutters.
Now I need to turn my attention to protecting the strawberry troughs:
There's no peace for the wicked, it's said.
It's mid-October and the outdoor strawberry troughs are still producing good fruits, plenty of new flowers and sufficient runners for even more plants next year.
At the first warning of frost I'll transfer them into the greenhouse, so we may still be cropping them in November:
The greenhouse-based chillies are doing well too, only a handful is yet to turn red: