Berrylicious

Someday soon, we'll be having berries in our garden.... a blackberry and a strawberry!

Aren't they beautiful? They were a gift from garden-friendly friends, Katinka and Pieter. And we love them! (the plants and the friends).

This is where they've settled:

Blackberry on the left, strawberry on the right.

See that plant behind the strawberry? the one that's slightly lighter in colour? That's called borage and it helps strawberries grow beautifully, because it's a companion plant. It makes gorgeous blue flowers too, and from what I understand, it's mainly used for it's seed oil. 

On a more negative note, we've also had some bad visitors to the garden: worms! On the nasturtiums, eating them at an alarming rate. I zapped them with the organic pesticide I keep stashed in the top shelf of the kitchen cupboard, but everytime I look at this picture I still get the creeps.