hehe if only you could see the reality of how little attention those strawberries tend to get! Earlier in the year they got weeded when you couldn’t see the leaves for the weeds.

*nods* if the fruit grows on the new raspberry stems (so it fruits on this year’s growth) then they’re autumn fruiting ones (at least according to “Raspberry Reg” who gave us most of the info when we started out on the plot – he told us to cut down the stems once they’ve finished fruiting), as summer fruiting raspberries fruit on last year’s growth (like my blackberry does). But just to confuse things, my autumn raspberries tend to produce a little fruit in early August (still in ‘summer raspberry’ territory) before they do the main crop from September!

Yeah, I think the heat was what killed off a lot of my original strawberry plants. How much attention do blueberries need (I’ve never tried growing them)?

It probably sounds daft, but the first year we did nothing to make a path through the berries, and lost quite a lot of fruit that we couldn’t reach! Since then I’ve tried to keep a random pathway through there, but I have to keep up with maintaining it, otherwise the berries grow back!