Well, there’s one advantage to this bizarre summer weather
If we had our regular long hot dry summer, these strawberry plants (which, as you may have noticed, are still in the gotten-from-the-shop pots they were in when they came home 10 weeks ago) would have shrivelled up and died a long time ago. They came close a couple of times when we did get a (short) hot spell, and I had to dump water on them a couple of times a day to keep them from completely collapsing into dried leaves and twigs. But, no, it’s been cloudy, rainy, and cold for way more than I’d expect from a Portland summer, and thus these woefully neglected fruit-bearing plants manage to stagger along until we finally get around to finding a place to plant them.