Strawberries! June 23, 2008
About six weeks ago I got my first set of berries - about eight in total and I was quite pleased with them.
Yesterday I pulled out my 6ish (probably 8th or 9th really if we count the casulties of ‘official quality control’) punnet. I’ve had strawberries almost every day and they’re still fruiting and flowering. Happy days. But it wasn’t always like this. Last year I started with no strawberries at all. I’d only taken my plot on about six months before the strawberry season and the plot was somewhat bare - we’d got the raised beds but they were still settling in and not particularly strawberry friendly being 99% manure.
From the downsizer forums I asked around for anything that would help me start - Sally on the forums sent me several fruit canes (most of which perished, but a few survived), several different types of seed and a couple of strawberry plants which from what I could see looked like they had little chance of survival! A few days later they had sprung right up and produced several strawberries that were very tasty. By the end of the season they’d sprung runners - in total I think we had about 25-30 plants from them which I planted up into boxes at the start of this year.
So thank you once again Sally, it was eversokind to send me those all the way from ireland and they’ve really made a tasty difference on my plot!
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