Strawberries - 2019 Edition

We loved having fresh good strawberries, and now that we have our little house, we decided we missed them enough that D made a bed beside the driveway and ordered 50 plants of Mara Des Bois.  We planted 35 and gave 15 to the neighbor across the street who loves to garden.

Even though we live in the "city," we have deer, woodchucks, skunk, squirrels, chipmunks, and lots of birds.  And these guys all love strawberries (well, maybe not the deer - they love apple trees).  To protect the plants from predators,  an arch of fencing was put over them, and when the berries began to appear, plastic mesh was put over the arch.

We were able to protect the bed from the mammals and all but one bird.

Alas, it looks like slugs like strawberries.

Time for "Sluggo".

So far, we have picked 17 strawberries.