One plant seems completely oblivious to this...
Already one or two of the fruits are beginning to show colour..
We have some decent sized strawberries on many of the plants..
and all have a good number of fruits forming....
The only problem is that we have lots of them...
That's about two thirds of the total plants.. Perhaps I planted too many....
Maybe we should put up a "Pick Your Own" sign in a couple of weeks? It's either that, or live off jam for the rest of the year!
NB. We constantly remind ourselves that these all came from six plants we got free in 2009 from Homebase, in the UK. Now that's good value!
3 comments:
There yum no such thing yum as toooo many strawbs....
fresh with cream....
turned into an ice-cream...
or even better.... SORBET.
Just plain RAW... but sun warmed!
Baked in a cake....
chopped with cornflakes...
mashed with sugar and a bit of balsamic vinegar and spread on fresh white bread...
done in a tartlet....
Now I need to clean the keyboard....
I agree. They are fantastic if your potager is dry, like mine is. My problem this year is that I have not been able to weed them, so production will be well down.
We'll take some off your hands if you've got too many... I don't often get the chance to make strawberry jam because somebody eats all the strawberries... You can buy jam sugar and jelly sugar, which have different amounts of pectin, or you can add redcurrant juice to make it set.
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