Ah, nice to have a good rest. Why are you quitting strawberries? I did - too much work. And the magpies and bugs would eat them.
My beans haven't done great. They kept getting eaten by slaters and I've been a bit lackadaisical really on the garden front. I need to be more dedicated! I think coz I know I'm going away, combined with grief and a hip issue, meant, most of hte time it's all I could do - can do - to pull a few weeds, and what survives, survives.
These were annual strawberries, so delicious and had no snails or other problems in this container. BUT, I also have lots of perennial fruits - raspberries, peaches, pears and blueberries. It's too much dang fruit! I have started a few perennial plants, so I should have some.
I can understand your doing a bit less in your garden this year. It's been quite a year for you. You're going away again?
I was shocked at how many beans my eight foot row produced. I came to hate beans, they had to be harvested every single day for nearly two months. Green, so I couldn't see them easily, and I had to bend over. I wish I could plant everything in elevated beds like my strawberry bed, which had almost no diseases or pests.
See it's opposite to me, my raised beds are full of slaters!!! Grrr. Haha I love beans. Steamed and with seedy mustard . The best. My sister hated them. My Dad would always say how he ate green beans in the army like it was some exciting story.