First Strawberry of the Season

 The wall of strawberries I installed a at the beginning of May is now producing edible fruit ...

Photo 1: First Strawberry of the Season (15th May 2025)

We picked eleven Malling Champion strawberries on the 19th May. They were sweet & delicious. The wall feature also looks good with the double flowers of the Summer Breeze strawberries ...

Photo 2: Wall of Strawberries (23rd May 2025)

I haven't had time to set up the solar-powered watering system yet so I'm still watering by hand. And, as is clear from the above picture, I haven't had time to put up any netting to protect the fruit from birds. Where does time go? Fortunately, either the birds haven't discovered the ripe strawberries yet or they find access to the ripe fruit too difficult.