2025 - What I did today

Again I found vine weevil grubs in my strawberry tubs   and the plants loose on the top of the soil where their roots had been eaten. After all my work last year to get rid, I'm really disappointed.  Robin had a hot dinner though. I'm looking into whether nematodes might be he answer, but they're quite expensive every year.  I fear I might just have to accept that strawbs will have to be a  border plant. I can always grow spuds in the strawberry planter. At least I didn't dig out the border strawberrie,s as I had planned to late season last year and took runners in pots, so I've plenty of stock.

That's why I gave up growing strawberries in containers. I suppose hanging baskets would make it more difficult for the weevils to find the plants, but they're harder to keep well watered. I did use tree glue around the legs of my planters one year, but it kills other insects too.