The strawberry and asparagus bed got lost in the blackberry vines last summer and I just finished cutting them back. I can’t really dig them out without hurting the fruit and veg. even more than pulling out the vines has. The asparagus spears are about an inch in diameter and very tall, falling over to the south mostly, but leaning is the operative word. Now I’m using bamboo stakes and baling twine to fence them in and provide support so they get as much sun as possible.. Much of the bed is devoid of strawberries, overshadowed by asparagus and blackberry leaves, especially in the middle of the bed and I pulled out several, by mistake. I have 15 Shuksan plants are on the way, and I don’t yet know how many older strawberries I will be able to transplant. but all the strawberries I will get this fresh this year are from the Farmer’s Market. I have 18 pints washed, hulled and in the freezer. Cherries are also just coming out. I’m unhappy with my Sam Sweet Cherry, the cherries are small and sour. Hopefully feeding it will help.
I plan to use a corner of the stone orchard next to the garden for strawberries given the dog’s love of eating the plants and the stone orchard has a fence around it so I can use aged manure to amend the soil which is dense dark clay. The plants in the garden are doing ok, in spite of the clay, but we’ll see how big they are able to get or if the clay inhibits their routs. Certainly, the folks living here before said the garden grew well, so we shall see.
6/20, we had some lovely hard rain, unfortunately only for a brief time, not enough to move the rain gauge at all and only enough to get maybe 1/2″ in the bird bath. Raining again on and off 6/21, only the 4th time it’s rained since the end of Feb.
I have 2 pineapple guava plants, neither pineapple nor guava, the fruit has an interesting complicated taste. Neither of my plants, which are 3 years old, have flowered or produced fruit. With all the pruning recommendations I’ve read regarding fruit trees, I have just let the PGs grow slowly, on their own but when I looked it up, I read in more than one place, that pruning can enhance growth and flowering, and by G˚, it worked. These flowers are beautiful with pink and white petals which are thick like a succulent’s leaves and sweet. The stamens are a deep Chinese red.
I am thrilled to learn that the feijoas don’t need to have their fruit thinned, which I was afraid I would need to do this, the first year they are blooming and hopefully fruiting. 
I’ll need to prune out the lower branches of the 2 plants, or I’ll never find the fruit should it form, and fall. There is grass and buttercups growing around their bases.