I picked my first strawberry today - not the one in the picture as that is not quite there - but it was a big fat juicy one - and I devoured it before remembering that I should have photographed it. Tasted delicious.
After last year's dismal crop, I had decided that the whole strawberry patch would get a make over at the end of this season and had largely ignored it. This year I have got a good supply of nice fat strawberries developing nicely. The patch has been there for about 6 or more years, having been generated originally from 3 plants (Marshmallow) that I bought for £1 from the Kitchen Garden. I will keep some of the runners, but intend to replace them with Royal Sovereign which I think is a much better cropper, judging my my neighbour's plot.
I have also got a few tiny flowers coming on my runner beans. I took a gamble and planted them out early to much scoffing from the old hands. Looks like my gamble paid off and I will be the first one to be picking runner beans this season.
The Melons also got planted out. Unfortunately I am suffering with the munchings of slugs and snails this year and came up with an ingenuous method to protect the young plants - hope it works.
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