The plants had lots of pea straw round them which I found to be really great for the fruit, as it lay on the straw instead of laying on the dirt. Now I will dig what is left of the straw into the soil and add compost from my compost bins and lots of black gold, (or sheep poo from the paddock) to make a lovely soil to plant the young strawberry plants back into.
These plants I'm pulling out are only a year old, and will fruit well for another 2 years, but I like to start with young runners every year. I have heeled the young plants into another piece of garden until the bed is ready to plant into.
It's nice when the cats get involved too. Wednesday came out to visit and watch what I was doing. She found a lovely spot in the sun under the passionfruit vine. Unfortunately she wasn't much help when a large hairy spider tried to run up my glove!!
Hopefully we will have more fine weather tomorrow as well and I can do some more catching up in the garden.
Carole ;)
4 comments:
You and alllll of those spiders!!!!
Lovely garden pictures.
I am a little confused. It's your winter (cold) but you are gardening? I never a did a thing with my strawberries- maybe why mine did so poorly. Of course, I did not have sheep poo available! hee hee
a passion fruit vine, how exotic that sounds! bet you'll have a bumper crop of really BIG berries too!
Post a Comment