Ahh, but the strawberries...

... that's where I had them.

We too, have had a bit of trouble with the strawberries this year.

Whilst all of our neighbours have been harvesting bucket loads, our plants produced a miserable yield.

So, I decided to bring in reinforcements. A dozen plants were ordered from Ken Muir and these arrived today. We drove straight down to the patch to pull up 12 of the existing plants and replace these with the new ones.

The new plants are Flamenco, a 'perpetual' variety which should crop from mid-August to mid-October... so we may even get some fruit this year.