Bad strawberry crop this year?

[GardenFan]

Can I ask if everyone elses strawberry crop was as mine this year? I took a quarter of the crop and the slugs\snails\woodlice had the rest in the daily down pour that has been this summer.

[Madasafish]

ABYSMAL.

Rasps great...

[Flummery]

Mine were good - starting to get a bit of botrytis now but there are always one or two. However, they are in a cage. Our tame blackbird loves strawbs too!

[Lance]

Hello Garden fan
If it makes you feel better I have had the same problem. At first I thought it was mice eating them so I put some traps around then thought it could be birds so I netted the area. Slugs have been a bit of a problem but worst of all are the masses of woodlice which nested in the straw I put between the strawberries. I have since cleared the straw. Does anyone know a good method for getting rid of woodlice? Worst of all the rains make strawberries mouldy.
High hopes dashed for this year

[muckdiva]

ABYSMAL.

Rasps great...

Same here

[terrier]

No rot yet but no ripe strawberries either,still living in hope.

[HeyWayne]

See my blog to see what happened to my strawberries - the weeds had'em!

[mrs potato head]

Ours are only just getting going, almost gave up hope. Raspberrys total failure. Nothing on Loganberry, guessing it to late for them now?.

[mrskp]

I was giving up totally on my strawbs. Only had a bowlful off about 20 or so plants. Though I'd give them a haircut last week and found far more fruit hiding under the leaves and loads more blossom.

I'm hoping for great things over the next week or so. I really am confused by this though. I thought they should all be done and dusted by now.

These are second year plants and not one runner in sight yet for next year. I'm just assuming that they are still to come once this lot of fruiting is done.

[SarzWix]

Mine have been terrible too... Either they've started rotting before they were fully formed, or they've git a pink tip end and something's started eating it or... Basically I've had about 2, off 10 2 year old plants... Gutted! Off to the pick-your-own farm, hopefully their's will be ok??!!

[Jardiniere]

My strawberries were virtually non existent but I did have 8 apricots on my tiny new tree!!!!!
Raspberries had been moved so didnt expect anything but had a reasonable crop of gooseberries (one bush)
am thinking of growing the strawbs in raised window boxes next year - attach them to the side of the shed, garage, lean to, anything. Anybody done this with outside strawbs?

[cottage garden]

Strawberries have been absolute pants this year...I have had only one that hasn't been chewed by mice,slugs or woodlice. Even the green ones have changed their minds and now are going mouldy.

Autumn raspberries are ENORMOUS though....only a few so far but well over an inch in length.

[SueA]

I had some really nice strawberries in baskets at the beginning of June but haven't had many off the other plants in pots & the veg. bed as the rain has ruined the blossoms & the slugs have nibbled lots of the fruit before I've got to it, so not a very good year here either.(Pic. of the nice ones I did manage to eat myself!)

[Mrs Dobby]

The ones we've got planted in hanging baskets and oil drum planters (cheers PW!) in our back yard have done well (or so we feel, no idea really as its our first year growing), but the ones on the plot have been terrible!

Mind you, we do have quite a few flowers appearing now, so perhaps they are just going to be late this year!

[Sue]

I think down in the south, that early heat in April really helped, I've had 46lb of strawberries off different varieties. Had a lot of slug and bird problems which means we are fighting for the last few now.
Mine are in their second year and were grown from runners from my 12 original plants, got about 30 plants. I realise after they all grew to full size, that I'd planted them too close together but in the end this helped to keep them dry under all the leaves.
The raspberries are a different story, I'm on my second lot of 10 canes and these are stunted and producing tiny fruit, ground alternatively too wet and too dry for them I think. I'm going to give up on them and train a loganberry on their wires instead in the hope that a deeper root system will work.
Blackcurrants haven't been great either.
Sue