strawberry flowers

Strawberries are looking great with lots of flowers and fruit (still in the green stage but coming) My friend Michelle who gave me a bunch of starts last spring, told me to pick off all the flowers last year to let the plants grow more and that I would get a better crop of strawberries this year-she was right! It killed me last year but glad I listened. So far the birds aren’t interested  in the strawberry patch but I’m gonna put up some little hoops over the strawberries and put some bird netting on them to keep those birds out. I just have to do it before those strawberries turn red!