nearly ready, our first strawberry
Get the cream out...... yum!:P
WOW! :P
just hope we get it before any beasties do ;D
Is it outside? I've got some forming on my plants in the greenhouse but nowhere near ripe.
no, it's a 4 year old plant in a pot in the poly..we emptied a bed last year and always put 3or 4 in pots inside..there are 2 now, one each ;D
That looks lovely, we've got a trough of earlies on the patio which are forming well, but don't seem to be doing as well as last year. The 50 or so plants we have on the lottie are flowering well, really healthy - they did badly last year. There's no rhyme or reason why these things happen.
I'll skip the cream if you don't mind !!!!!!
:-[
we just eat them as they are, no cream either :)
I've got strawberry envy :P
and ive got strawberry anxiety
Just showing promise of fruits to come here Manics. Netted them yesterday. Is it a case of 'you cut I choose?'
Saddad, have you tried the soya alternative to cream? Quite palatable I find. (and also good in scrambled eggs :P)
just sweating now..the only prob we may have is slugs..and if ray can get there before me ;D
They do look great.
Mine havent even opened there flowers yet. But looks like they will soon.
I'm just wondering how I can split the two between everybody here ;D
Never mind the cream - has anyone tried them with freshly ground black pepper? It's mind-blowingly fantastic.
Ate my first ripe strawberry today, and I nearly didn't see it!
I had left some plants in pots from runners I had last year, only just got around to planting them out in a spare bit of ground today, one had a just ripe fruit hiding around the back of the pot.....didn't wait for cream.... :P :P :P
two become one, we're definitely eating one soon
Hey, I got one too! ;D
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A couple of mine are getting close. ;D ;D ;D
My first 'proper' crop of strawberries from yesterday, from outside. They were too good for cream I'm afraid ;D
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Amazing - what sort are they?
Hope that they tasted as good as they look
Where in the world are you to get so many so early :P
Yum yum yum. Too good for cream i think. :P
Quote from: flossie on May 08, 2007, 21:38:22
Amazing - what sort are they?
Hope that they tasted as good as they look
Where in the world are you to get so many so early :P
They are a mixture of the French varieties 'Gariguette' and 'Gento' I believe, I'm in France. They normally start cropping in the last week of May here but they are very early with the weather even warmer than usual.
They were gorgeous. I only eat my own strawberries for 3 or 4 weeks of the year and it is something to really look forward too. I planted runners in my polytunnel last year and have gained an extra two weeks on the season ;)
well, we sat in the poly, listening to the rain yesterday, on our fishing stools and each ate a delicious fresh from the plant strawberry..they were everything we'd hoped..sorry to make you drool ;D :P
Drool, drool. :-*
I love the Gariguette strawberries, my favourite....I'm slowly building up my stock from runners, can't have too many! ;D