This Space for Rent

Well, there’s one advantage to this bizarre summer weather

MadGardeningSkills

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.