Strawberries galore

It seems that the Strawberry Empire is now in session. Everyday we're bringing back punnet-fulls of them.

You wouldn't think it to look at the strawberry beds, but there are a huge amount hiding under those leaves.

Elsewhere we've pulled out the onions and planted loads of tomatoes. We've never really had decent success with onions. This year they seemed to start out OK, but instead of the bulbs swelling up, all they seemed to do was split. The end result being loads of small, unusable onions rather than anything decent. We might try looking at a different variety next year.

Meanwhile, we've now planted 4 beds of Ailsa Craig tomatoes. Though not full beds as we still have a couple of the Dwarf French Beans in one of the beds.

The Wife's flower bed has also had a makeover. Back in the spring we planted a whole load of wildflower seeds. Except the majority of them came up as weeds. A lot of chard and Lambs Quarters, so those we're all pulled a whole load of the Spyder flowers were put in instead.

But it still didn't make much difference to the greenhouse which are still as full as ever.

The very back corner of the plot is still a dumping ground and bone yard. I've thrown down a load of weed membrane in an attempt to cover everything and keep the weeds down. Not really sure what to make of this area in the future. It's kind of awkward sandwiched between the Apple Tree and the Artichoke. At the moment it's a place for all my buckets of spuds and unused water barrel.

Any thoughts as to what I could do with this area?

At the otherside, the front of the plot, all of the troughs are now planted which petunias. We seem to get a lot of comments from people walking past about. Which was kind of the point really.