Well, a small one, anyway. Last year we bought some very cheap strawberry plants and stuck them in a flower bed where they failed to produce anything edible. This year, however, they have given us some sweet strawberries – a whole (small) bowlful. And we’ve been able to pick them at peak ripeness. Delicious. Please excuse the shocking lack of focus in the picture. The one I took using the flash made the strawberries look purple.
We also have some small and very sour cherries, about five radishes, a handful of gooseberries, some spindly rhubarb and some snail-chewed bok choi. And there will definitely be potatoes. It’s better than last year, and if our gardening continues to improve at this rate I reckon that we might have a good harvest by the time the Engineer leaves home (he’s six btw).
I love this. Your garden is like my garden, a work in progress and any harvest is a pleasant welcome. I wrote a similar post about the first strawberries this year, http://banbamama.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/the-first-strawberries-picked-by-little-hands/.
So far we’ve only harvested lettuce leaves – not too bd once you’ve washed out the attendant greenfly. When you consider the cost of lettuce, it’s probably worth the enormous amount of time it takes to clean it up! But there’s lots of summer still to come.
Your strawberries look great!