there was a riot going on

when i opened up the strawberry bed i found riotous reproduction afoot...twenty odd plants and stolons everywhere and while some plants are busily producing berries others are expending all their energy on producing daughters...so i choked back my natural disinclination to prune and got out my pocket knife and removed eighteen runners from various locations...painful but necessary for the overall health of the bed...i gave the newly pruned and more orderly ( by my anarchic standards anyway ) bed a thorough soaking with the garden hose...perhaps this will lead more plants to produce some berries...perhaps i will be pruning stolons all summer...we'll see...more as it comes up.