Back in 2012 we posted about the wonderful yield of fruit we were getting from our strawberries and, of course, in the intervening years the number of plants has grown exponentially, leading to a problem: Too many strawberries!
I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but there it is!
Some of you may remember the wonderfully "understated" Strawberry Roulade??
We still have a freezer full of frozen strawberries, strawberry coulis, strawberry sauce and a cellar full of strawberry jam and we have supplied anyone willing to take some. So the time has come for desperate measures...
We have decided to downsize the strawberry patch.
These images show part of the strawberry patch in recent seasons...
But this year will be slightly different. We will rationalise the patch..
This stuff is going down and some of the hundreds of plants are coming up!
So if anyone would like any amount of abundantly fruiting strawberry plants, they are here for you to collect. Free and gratis!
Sadly we can't tell you the variety, as they originated from the runners of six free plants brought over from England in 2008!
5 comments:
They could be Cambridge Favourite...
the shape is right...
and ours went ber-zerk on our allotment...
the old plants do far longer than their allotted three to four years.
But there are hundreds of strawberry varieties...
so it is really anyone's guess!
Email us, please, when you've lifted them and we will come and rescue a dozen young ones...
we'll grow them in pots this year!
I'll have some too :-)
Tim, will email you.
Susan, you are most welcome to as many as you like! I have started digging them up but I'm leaving plenty of soil round the roots and keeping them damp, so they won't take any harm. Just let us know when you're able to collect.
If they are still available for transplanting when we arrive I'll put some in pots. Thanks
There will be some waiting for you, Gaynor, no problem! Now get on with enjoying Japan and stop commenting on blog posts!!! :)
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