Strawberries!

As I mentioned before, our strawberry plants went insane. Went from having 4 to 40+. I even gave a few away. The June Bearing variety are ripening up nicely, while the Ever-Bearing still has a little more to go.

Here are pictures of the patch and the first picked berries (5/25/09). And boy, ARE THEY GOOD!


Before & After!


Now here are pictures from today, a week later:

And just as many will be ripe enough to pick tomorrow! I love summer!

We put a net over the patch due to only getting one half-ripe berry last year, before some creature ate them all*. We have a rabbit under the tree, but I have a feeling it was a mole last year that had a hole near the patch. Along with Grammie's plastic owl, these seem to be successful against curious critters this year.

*Well, it would rip it off the plant, and then leave it with a bite mark- not even eating it- just to mock us!