Fruit Beds Finished

At last, the fruit beds are finished. We put the wire and net up on the strawberry beds, which completed the netting. It was by far the easiest, as it only needed one net, and it's only a couple of feet off the ground (by contrast, the rasperry beds' net is 7–8 feet up, and the blueberry/currant bed required three nets).

The strawberries have been extremely busy, sending out runners. We cut off a lot from the edges, to get the netting in place, but there are many more running within the bed. The prunings have been potted up, and we now have about 40 extra plants of each variety (Honeoye, Cambridge, Florence). Where they're going to go, I know not. Liz keeps suggesting a second strawberry bed...

We also sowed some more seeds: lupins, astrantia, and species tulips, all collected last Wednesday. I don't know how reliable they'll be (especially the tulips), but I thought it would be worth a go.