Above was my attempt at an artistic close up, I am really enjoying documenting the garden and would love to take some good photos... hmmm... I think I have some way to go yet.This one below seems to have some sort of bug that has tunneled its way around the top of the berry. Still seems okay though.
Another tunneled one... I chopped off the top and ate it, and wow, the freshness really makes a huge difference. It was much softer, not mushy, but without any supermarket crunch to it. And it was delicately sweet, I guess the more they ripen the sweeter they get?
There are four main plants in total, but they have shot off some runners and there are probably around 10 plants now. My mum gave them to me about a year ago, and I kind of halfheartedly dug a few holes straight into the hard ground and plonked them in. No nice chicken soil, no manure. I don't think I even watered them in. I'd had no luck with anything growing for so long that I didn't really put any effort in. And of course because I didn't put any effort in, I wasn't really rewarded with anything either.
So what's different about these? I think, I could be wrong, but I think it's because I got enthusiastic about growing things and started to plant and water everything around them, I'd give the strawberries a little water too. And I think that's what it is, water.
Another tunneled one... I chopped off the top and ate it, and wow, the freshness really makes a huge difference. It was much softer, not mushy, but without any supermarket crunch to it. And it was delicately sweet, I guess the more they ripen the sweeter they get?
There are four main plants in total, but they have shot off some runners and there are probably around 10 plants now. My mum gave them to me about a year ago, and I kind of halfheartedly dug a few holes straight into the hard ground and plonked them in. No nice chicken soil, no manure. I don't think I even watered them in. I'd had no luck with anything growing for so long that I didn't really put any effort in. And of course because I didn't put any effort in, I wasn't really rewarded with anything either.
So what's different about these? I think, I could be wrong, but I think it's because I got enthusiastic about growing things and started to plant and water everything around them, I'd give the strawberries a little water too. And I think that's what it is, water.Needless to say, with my newfound enthusiasm, they are now in danger of being drowned :O.
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Those chomps look like grasshoppers having dessert. The home-grown ones can be superb, they don't look as fancy as the commercial ones, but the flavour makes up for that. And that's why we grow them - the flavour! If you want fruit, cut off the runners, they will produce runners at the end of the fruiting season. Select the ones which did best and away you go next year in fresh acidic soil. Ease up on the chook fert, though, and add potash - worm castings are great too.
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