Fragaria x ananassa

Deformed strawberry ripened, and is only the size of my little fingernail! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Deformed strawberry??

should be formed right as grows.. need to wait and watch

Freshly plucked from the backyard. Looks like my little net cover has been keeping the creepy crawlies and birds away from my #strawberries after all. #gyo 🍓🍓🍓🍓💚

Yumbo! ❤️

Well will you look at that little beauty! #firstfruit #homegrown #strawberries

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The first fruit of my strawberry plant has yet to even turn red and already fallen prey to some keen predator. I've put a net on my little strawberry patch now. #strawberries

Sigh... 😕 Good luck!

I'm happy to report that there have been no new chomp holes since applying used coffee ground to the base. In fact my little strawberry patch has literally perked up, just like how we do after coffee hehehe... Ps: The petals fell off the one I'm holding... can you see the tiny berry starting to grow? So excited because I have never eaten homegrown fruit before!

Yummy

#strawberry

Bought the tiniest potted strawberry patch from Woolies one night a while back (it was only two bucks on sale so I thought why not try). Spruced it up, plucked off the only flower it had back then, and let it adjust to life in my backyard... Since then, it has been doing well, putting out about 5 new flowers and starting to spread its dark pretty leaves out. Only thing... I suspect a caterpillar might be munching on it now and then. #strawberries #strawberry

Snails love them. Suggest putting straw around it. Or surround it with crunched eggshells.

@brightcolours ok, thanks! A friend suggested used coffee grounds, so I just did that two days ago... Will try eggshells if coffee doesn't work.

Coffee grounds are good too.

And sawdust.

@brightcolours hmm don't have saw dust. But coffee grounds and egg shells are definite staples in this household!🤗☕🥚