Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: starry on June 10, 2010, 13:01
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and it was delicious even though it wasn't quite ripe split it in half and shared it with my weeder (my mum) it was a case that either eat it now or lose it for ever as I may not be around much next week !! :( :( :(
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Is great that the moment you first eat one isnt it :D :D :D :D
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I'm jealous Starry :) mine aren't even starting to blush yet, another couple of weeks for me i think.
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Makes you feel good doesn't it 8). I ate my 1st one today too. I only had one red one and it was really tiny..but oh so sweet nicest strawberry i have ever had :lol:
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those you grow yourself really do taste the best dont they, I hope you have many more
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Just about to have my first bowful of the season...cant beat it :tongue2:
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Just about to have my first bowful of the season...cant beat it :tongue2:
Oh right, it's gone from the first strawberry of the season to a whole bowlfull, Thanks very much Miss gloating BeanQueen :tongue2:.
You may well find that I'll be gloating 3 weeks after yours have finished :), although everyone will probably be sick of strawbs by then :lol:.
Are you having clotted cream with them? drool
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This is my first year for growing strawberries, and it's sooooo worth it for the taste.
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This is my first year for growing strawberries, and it's sooooo worth it for the taste.
Another gloater, spose you've had your first bowlfull aswell Jude :lol:
Hope you're all enjoying them :)
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Mine have been tasteless balls of mush ! :mad:
I've been so disappointed with them I've been feeding them to the chickens.
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Have you been feeding them Lardman? Just a thought because a fellow plot holder has been complaining of the same problem and he's been giing them fertilizers up until a couple of weks ago
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In the past I have only grown strawberries in a strawberry pot, which turned out to be a perfect lodging house for woodlice (hence no strawberries!) :(
For some reason I bought a strawberry plant from Ludlow market whilst on holiday last year which is now sitting in solitary splendour underneath an old hamster cage (wire part!). Slugs are circling!
Anything I get from it will taste wonderful I'm sure (is it possible to buy very small pots of clotted cream?) :nowink:
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I get woodlice in all my strawberry pots at home JatG, I always thought they didn't grow in pots very well (small mount of little fruits) because they were not getting the room for the roots.
Room for thought there, maybe I'll raise them off the ground in the garden in future
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Have you been feeding them
Nope - and they're not in my sand soil either. I was given them last year from a friend who potted them up in his garden soil. The Florian and Sarian I grew from seed aren't any better though.
They're heading for the compost heap at the end of the year unless they start to taste better as the summer goes on.
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I am jealous! I have lots of green strawberies and three which are half red/half green. Was very hard to resist them today, but hoping that the sun at the weekend will mean we can try them then. It is our first year too.
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I brought 4 home for my little boy, he can't wait for the rest now :)
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I am so jealous mine are just starting to swell no way near ready and now with rain and clouds all week it is n't going to be any time soon. I think I should start getting fruit from end of June depending on the weather. There is one thing for certain none will make it home the 500 yards from plot to home. My 3 little helpers, that is when there are peas or soft fruit to eat, ensure they do not go to waste.
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I get woodlice in all my strawberry pots at home JatG, I always thought they didn't grow in pots very well (small mount of little fruits) because they were not getting the room for the roots.
Room for thought there, maybe I'll raise them off the ground in the garden in future
I think the lipped holes in the strawberry planter provided the perfect dark and moist conditions amongst the plant roots for the woodlice to hide in. They then went about their business to the considerable detriment of the plants.
Don't think this is likely to happen in the open garden (hope not, anyway!)
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Still waiting for mine - I have two trays of alpine strawberries grown from seed this year but they have struggled and only now putting on any growth so no fruit off them this time but next year tiny strawberry heaven :)