First Strawberry

IMG_2186, a photo by Pike-uliar Gardenings on Flickr.

The first strawberries are starting to come in. This one looks a little like a heart. Strawberry is pretty much the perfect plant. Doesn't need much water, plants itself - all over if you let it, tastes great, looks great. ONly downside is the little birds or bugs or whatever it is that nibbles them now and then. I pick em just a bit before they are totally ripe, when I remember, and that seems to help. But truthfully, after having these things for a few years, we have so many we can lose a few.