After a failure of strawberries last year, I was detemined to have some this year, so I have looked after them supremley, they had sulphate of potash scattered and dug in at the beggining of the year, I have netted them, weeded regularly and cut off any runners, put straw around the base to protect the berries and made sure they are watered regularly.......result.......an abundance of strawberries, yipee, so many I am possibly, but not quite, getting fed up of them. Yesterday I made 4 pots of strawberry jam and a strawberry torte for pudding with plenty left over and that was from one days picking!!
Any that are not up to scratch I chuck in the chicken run, and my little chicks help themselves to the one round the outside. we are all happy