Three years ago my daughter and I bought three little strawberry plants at a school fair. Each year they have multiplied, and now we have about fifteen pots full of plants on our tiny rooftop deck. This spring we are drawing them at their different stages of development for our Botany block, and the process, from bud to fruit, is pretty fascinating. The strawberries are terrific. Unfortunately this year a squirrel has discovered them and visits often. What’s so annoying is that he (she?) doesn’t simply eat an entire strawberry, but takes large bites out of several and then wanders off. One day I caught him trying to BURY one as if it were a nut.
Your rooftop deck must be a beautiful place.
Strawberries, raspberries, tulips, eggplant! Squirrels once left our entire eggplant harvest, half-bitten, strewn on the neighbours’ porch. When I was a kid, one summer we blamed a neighbour boy for chopping the heads off the tulips, but I’ve later realized it must have been squirrels, because they do the same thing in my garden now.