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This is roughly the harvest every other day. Already have a gallon freezer bag full. No complaints here.

Carrots and peppers were kind of a wash last year so we just let the strawberries run rampant. They're happy as hell and the fruits are have gotten bigger as the plants matured. The left side was clear enough to put beans where the tomato plants used to be. I was planning on skipping tomatoes as well because they got absurdly large and bent their cages, but some of the fallen ones must have seeded because we had 3 little tomato plants shooting up. They're in separate pots now and hopefully that'll be more manageable.

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[-] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

How do you keep rabbits and squirrels from eating them?

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

No joke. I have a rather large bed and colony of plants and none of this tracks for my experience.

[-] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Also curious about this! Rabbits are stealing all our berries, and especially as the plants start taking over the beds

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The squirrels eat the fallen seeds from the bird feeder, and the buns just haven't shown up yet I guess. We have some netting we're going to throw over the beds but thankfully no critter issues so far.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

We used hula hoops, schedule 40 and some cheap netting. This was from early May i think.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Ooohh. I like that. Thank you for the great advice!

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I always spend hours looking for fancy garden setups then give myself a 20 dollar budget and improvise lol

[-] trinsec@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Oh nice! No trouble with snails? I simply cannot have homegrown strawberries because snails and slugs get to them first.

[-] Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Damn, real nice

[-] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago
[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

How lovely! I recommend strawberry lemonade!

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

when life gives you lemons.

burn life's house down! with lemons!

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ooh did not think of that. We have plans for jam but we definitely will have enough for lemonade as well.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

How do you get strawberry plants to produce so much?? My plant has produced a total of 15 strawberries over the course of 3 years. I want a harvest like yours. Maybe I need to get more plants?

[-] brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh no what a tragedy, I can help dispose of the excess.

[-] gazby@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Alright, how many have this exact collander? ๐Ÿ˜‚โœ‹

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I have three massive gooseberry bushes. There is loads of gooseberries every year, and birds pick all of them off as soon as they ripen.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago

Make some homemade jam. It's pretty easy if you don't do a full canning and will use this up quickly

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

And if it's too runny for whatever reason you have flavored simple syrup for cocktails ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

If you have too much of that you can add liquor as a preservative to make your own cordial.

It's funny how many delicious things are methods to save food when you grow too much

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Oh that's a great idea.

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