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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

I have a crop of Elsanta just about ready ... yum yum ...
- Heavy crops of large, firm, attractive berries with a very good flavour.

Others I would recommend ...

Alice - an early very tasty straw with a long cropping time

Hapil - high yields of large, firm, bright red fruits and crops well on light soils and under dry conditions. The flesh is lovely and juicy and the flavour is absolutely superb. Highly productive and vigorous, it is not susceptible to most diseases and is hardy.

Tenira - a prolific cropper of medium to large sized, firm, juicy fruits and is resistant to the most common diseases

all available from Muir's who display at Chelsea
Razz

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

Lottie · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 54

Not jealous, not jealous....ok jealous... Embarassed

Sound lovely, Flo, no idea what my variety is, got them from John the builder... Laughing

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

I was also given an amazing pressie from one of the oldies ... 20 plants ... again no idea what variety but they taste yum!

Don't forget the nets!! With all this rain the fruit will be huge Razz

... lets hope they keep thier flavour!

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

Lottie · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 54

With the amount of rain here, Flo, I think mine are more likely to rot, then swell... *sigh* Need sun!!! Evil or Very Mad

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

STRAW !!!!! Very Happy

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

Lottie · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 54

Terribly kind of you, but I've had me brekkie... Shocked

I tried that, Flo, and the blinkin stuff seeded so I had corn growing with me strawbs... Laughing

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

Well you are supposed to dry it first you know!!

Folk also use membrane under the straw too ... that should fix the seeds! Very Happy

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

Lottie · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 54

Ahhh a cunning and masterful plan..... Cool

and I have some left over from the gravel garden so I can do it! Very Happy

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moonbells · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

Marshmello. Every time. Forget Elsanta - they are crunchy to me, and tasteless in their supermarket forms.

moonbells

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

ooo ... whenyou have lots of runners .... Very Happy

... pretty pleeeeease Question

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

moonbells · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:28 am Post subject:

I wish! I usually get given some fruit by my lottie neighbour Chris, who did give me runners... last year... so no prizes as to what then happened. Bah!

moonbells

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lily · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

I harvested 8 beautiful strawberries from my greenhouse this morning Very Happy

No idea what variety they are - we had several at the last house but lost all the labels Embarassed

and runners were potted up at random when we moved Rolling Eyes

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

Brought home a bowl of strawbs yesterday ... from the plants that my lottie oldie gave me , small but oh so sweet! Yum

OH & I ate the lot Very Happy

... son didn't taste a single one Shocked

... some people just don't know what they are missing !!

... but he ate yellow pea pods in his salad!! Laughing

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

SeedQueen · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 600

Does he know he ate yellow pea pods? I'm guessing not Laughing

The strawbs sound great. Mine should be ready soon with any luck