First Strawberries!

Well, ok I have been nibbling on one or two before I harvested this less than completely ripe bowl of strawberries.  It doesn't really matter that they are not completely ripe because they still taste so much better than store bought.  My strawberry plants look like they have a fungus or rust- lots of brown spots.  Maybe they are too crowded together in that small little patch.  I think I'll thin them out a bit after they've slowed with the production of strawberries.
I have another bunny and I think he's here to stay unless I can figure out a way to make the yard less appealing.  He is pretty small yet, and I think there is just one, but he has put a significant dent in some of my plants.  He totally decimated a butterfly weed, trimmed back the coreopsis, and nibbled on young lupine.  I'm using blood meal, and cayenne pepper, and vindaloo (I had a large bottle and I knew I'd never use half of it- spicy!).  It may have slowed him down, and I see him out in the lawn nibbling too, so maybe he'll just eat the lawn vegetation if my plants become more distasteful.  I don't want to use alot of chemicals because I have strawberries, peppers, and onions mixed in with the perennials.

yummy!

still intact butterfly weed.

bunny decimated butterfly weed ( this is a different plant from above).  Looks like he used a pruning shears.

Pictures soon of the yard- it is growing greener everyday!