Strawberries and tomatoes

The strawberry plants I potted a while back are doing quite well and I finally harvested about six strawberries yesterday. I discovered, to my horror, that the snails also like strawberries and have been chomping on the fruit and leaving little to taste. I’ve put the big planter box up on bricks to try to keep the snails away since the other plant hasn’t been bothered at all. The harvested strawberries are okay but not nearly as flavorful as the ones being sold about six to eight weeks ago just about everywhere. I don’t suppose I will ever have such tasty fruit.

My cherry tomatoes are also doing quite well, except for the ones that are crowded into a pot. Those are looking a bit yellow right now. If we don’t do something with them soon, I suspect they will just die out for lack of nutrients. That will still leave five plants, which I believe will be more than enough. Still haven’t planted regular tomatoes or chillies or cucumbers. Maybe this weekend I can put some chillie plants into a big pot like the cherry tomatoes.