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First outdoor strawberry!!!
Kids shared the first outdoor strawberry yesterday hurrah. You always know summer is on the way when that happens. Got loads of flowers and green berries on my plants this year so hoping for a bumper crop.
Thinking I will try to get out in the garden this week as baby no4 due any day now so hopfully a bit of exercise will get things going lol.
ali x
Thinking I will try to get out in the garden this week as baby no4 due any day now so hopfully a bit of exercise will get things going lol.
ali x
"Overthinking every little thing
Acknowledge the bell you cant unring"
Acknowledge the bell you cant unring"
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Thats good news!Kind Regards
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I got 24 baby strawberries I got this year in strawberry planter and in 2 lots of plastic tray pots. Hope I get a crop even if its small for first year0
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Big Head
Kidding ali good for you most of mine are dieing/dead so my first strawbs this year will be Aldi's 
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That's great Ali - mine haven't got any flowers on... Does mean that they probably won't flower now?
Sending labour vibes your way for number 4. Hope you're not struggling too much in this heat?!0 -
Congratulations, Alibobsy! (and on the strawberry, too!)0
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littleme96 wrote: »That's great Ali - mine haven't got any flowers on... Does mean that they probably won't flower now?
Sending labour vibes your way for number 4. Hope you're not struggling too much in this heat?!
Strawbs can go very quickly from flower to fruit. There are early, mid and late (aka everbearing) vareties, the early is what the op probably has. I have a mix, half have flowers, half not.Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).
(I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,
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cootambear wrote: »Strawbs can go very quickly from flower to fruit. There are early, mid and late (aka everbearing) vareties, the early is what the op probably has. I have a mix, half have flowers, half not.
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Mine are only just flowering, Sophie variety, I think thats how its spelt?Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...0
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I bought a plant from Tescos last year. It gave about 20 strawbs and 3 runners but this year there is at least 50 flowers on it at the moment. The other 2 I got from B&Q are lagging behind with just a few flowers on each.0
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I bought a plant from Tescos last year. It gave about 20 strawbs and 3 runners but this year there is at least 50 flowers on it at the moment. The other 2 I got from B&Q are lagging behind with just a few flowers on each.
Are you sure this is a single plant, not a matted clump of crowns? The reason I say this is that the expected yield per strawberry plant is about 8-10 oz.per mature plant. You would be expecting well over 2 lbs (Possibly 4) of strawbs from just one plant!Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).
(I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,
(Sylvia Pankhurst).0
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