Is more important than fashion.
Actually most things are more important than fashion.
This was J and I maintaining our strawberries after reading about the process on Jodi’s fabulous blog. I think I learn something from every single one of Jodi’s posts.
I kind of imagined that my strawberries were finishing because their quality was diminishing. It never occurred to me that they needed maintenance!
We tidied them up thoroughly, and I am now in the process of propagating new plants from the copious runners. Based on the number of runners my hokowases are putting out, I think I may end up with 4 times the number of plants next season. That might go somewhere towards the number I’ll need to provide 2kg of berries in a single picking, like Jodi!
I think I actually have quite a ways to go 🙂
500m2 in Sydney 
I should go out and do mine too – I thought that after reading Jodi’s blog the other day. And I noticed a few good runners too that I should propagate. A job for later in the week perhaps.
PS love the hats!
I’m simply trying to rescue my strawberries from death after the lack of water while we were away…
It never occurred to me that that witches hat would also make a good sun hat! I keep hats and sunscreen at the back door and S knows they must go on before we go out unless it’s really early morning or late afternoon or we are literally only going outside for 2 minutes… But your neighbours must seriously be worried about your mental health by now… 😛
I’m hopeless with sun protection – I detest sunscreen, and would far prefer to avoid the sun or wear giant hats than put it on – only when it’s totally necessary. I’m glad they have conditioned J at daycare to wear the stuff.
But then again, I have no redheads in my family ;P
Ah yes, my mental health. I guess I must at least be labelled ‘eccentic’ 🙂
I think it looks very fashion forward dahling…
I have a bit of a quandarry with my strawberries, they are everywhere, not producing much, but sending out runners whily nilly so I could propagate heaps and move them to a sunnier spot which I think they will be more likely to fruit it but I’m not sure the unknown variety I’m growing is particularly good flavourwise. The eternal dilemma – save money or start again and try something else that may taste better…..
You’re funny 🙂
Well I bought 20 runners from Diggers for a reasonable price, and they have put out several runners each already. I think that it will work out very cost-effective to develop a reasonable sized patch, albeit over a couple of years.
Variety-wise, the family very much enjoys the hokowases, but for me I think they are actually a little too sweet. I would prefer a touch more acidity.
Just what I needed! I’ve noticed runners but I’ve no idea what to do with them!!