Six Small Strawberries

I bought this strawberry plant for $1.50 two years ago. It was on clearance late in the season, so I wasn't surprised when I didn't get any berries. Last year I had higher hopes. It had spread significantly and pink berries were appearing all over. But I only got to eat one. All the rest were eaten by some other critter (possibly a combination of critters). I put out beer to catch slugs, but the only result was that I had to get rid of slug carcasses. Ew.

This year is better. I haven't done anything special, but this week I've gotten six small strawberries. Some animal has gnawed little holes in some of them, but I cut those bits off. Not perfect. And I haven't yet gotten my money's worth of strawberries. But I'm calling it a victory. That's my vegetable garden philosophy in a nutshell - if I harvest something, anything, it's good enough.