More fruitiness

Last weekend Andrew went off on a trip to Homebase to get some pea seeds. He came back with five strawberry plants. He did also get the seeds, don't worry. More of those on a later post which will germinate in 10-14 days.

Back to the strawberries. Here's Andrew planting them. Doesn't he look the part in his sun hat?


We planted them under some black plastic we had lying around. Apparently it's best to plant them under something, to keep the moisture in and to keep the strawberries off the soil so they don't rot. I don't think we chose the best thing to plant them under though, something porous would have been better. Not that it's rained for the last week so that probably wouldn't have made much difference. They used to always spread straw under the plants to do the same job. Hence the name of the plant. According to Sue, Andrew's mum. We believe her. She's usually right.

On the subject of fruit, our raspberries have finally started to bud. Thank goodness. I am very much looking forward to raspberries. I want to try making raspberry jam.

Behind the raspberries you can see our gooseberry bush which seems to be doing very well. Gooseberry jam, anyone?