We have Strawberries.
I'm lazy, I grow mine in special terracotta Strawberry pots, that sit on the wall surrounding our terrace; 9 plants to each pot. This way I can control their water supply, manage the wretched ever-present slug problem, and also grab a handful every time I pass by.
I'm lazy, I grow mine in special terracotta Strawberry pots, that sit on the wall surrounding our terrace; 9 plants to each pot. This way I can control their water supply, manage the wretched ever-present slug problem, and also grab a handful every time I pass by.
Before long, this year's Cherries will be ripening, as well as our tiny crop of red currents and raspberries.
There will be no glut this year (last year was exceptional), but there WILL (we hope) be bowls of red fruits on the Magnon's meagre table.
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May Magnon's meagre table be filled with abundance, good health and prosperity. Those berries would love your smile. Experiment: smile and say thank you to one pot and not the others and see what happens!
Oh, how fast the seasons are going. It hardly seems any time since your last cherry harvest.
and what a harvest...
Morning Cro - when the strawberries arrive summer is not far behind. Mine in the greenhouse are still green - the ones in the garden are nowhere near ready yet. You are right in what you say though I don't think there will be any gluts like last year. I didn't know what to do with it all.
We just made pigs of ourselves.
Strawberries and cherries - two Nobel-worthy inventions indeed. With the slug problem I find that it helps if you picture them as little politicians in the making and revel in their removal from office...
Miniature Guillotine perhaps?
We have a ways to go yet before it is red fruit season here, although, with this early heat it may be upon us a little sooner this year.
If you had a Julia Bird all the berries would be gone in minutes. I should know.
my mate grows them in hanging basket, to defeat the slugs!
After last year I was hoping for another bumper harvest but the lack of sunshine and a mystery chomper has adversely affected my crop this year. I even sent the head gardener outside last night with his torch to try and find the strawberry thief, without success. (He got spooked by mysterious sounds coming from the field; turned out to be our neighbour's horses blowing him kisses!)
He'll be going out every night now...watch him!
Lovely! I had one strawberry plant survive and got a second to put in the garden. Like you, the slugs here are merciless, even when i've spread gobs of diatamaceous earth. sigh.
We're a ways off from red fruit, too; i'm hoping the raspberries do well this year. The cranberry plants survived the winter so maybe we'll have a bit of luck there, too.
I plopped a strawberry plant in my tiny garden last year and I've got my first green strawberries growing ever! I'm excited. I hope nothing eats them! *slurp*
I just harvested a small batch of strawberries from one of my ghetto pots, which I keep my berry plants in. I started 4 more pots for, hopefully next year's batch. I felt blessed, I had enough for strawberries, homemade whipped creme, and angel food cake!
Nothing is meagre, Mr M, everything is a blessing...
Have a wonderful week and upcoming weekend.
Awe your alittle ahead of us! Aren't they beautiful. I love waking up in the morning to find a bowl of strawberries on my kitchen counter for my breakfast. My hubby spoils me.
Berry nice...
I tried growing them in strawberry pots a few years ago, but got very little fruit. Now I just go to a local "pick you own" farm and come home with an abundance of them. I do love making frozen diaquiris in the summer.
I can taste these, across the miles.
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