Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneYoung strawberry plants with toothed three-part leaves in black fabric grow bags packed together on gravel, a barcoded nursery label pushed into the compost, with tomato plants and a cane behind.Week of 15 JuneTwo small ripe strawberries on the edge of a white worktop, one ridged and misshapen and the other round with its green calyx still attached, a dark case at the right.Week of 15 JuneFive ripe red strawberries with their green calyces still on, grouped together on a stained paper towel set on a dark stove top.Week of 22 JuneStrawberry plants in a black fabric grow bag beside a black plastic mesh cloche, a single ripe red berry showing through the mesh, a runner trailing across the perlite-flecked soil.Week of 22 JuneA strawberry plant in a black fabric grow bag, its serrated leaves spread around a spent pink-brown flower and two small hard green berries, dark soil and neighbouring bags behind.
