Morrisons Stawberry Plants

sb44

I bought a couple of strawberry plants today from Morrisons, £1 each.

I don't normally buy them at that price but there were about 3 decent sized runners on each one.

The only thing is it didn't state what variety they were.

Does anyone know what variety Morrisons are selling at the minute?

Ta.

cootambear

sb44 wrote: »

I bought a couple of strawberry plants today from Morrisons, £1 each.

I don't normally buy them at that price but there were about 3 decent sized runners on each one.

The only thing is it didn't state what variety they were.

Does anyone know what variety Morrisons are selling at the minute?

Ta.

Its worth asking them, odds are they`ll be elsanta. I also hate the way supermarkets label strawbs by origin, not variety.

sb44

cootambear wrote: »

Its worth asking them, odds are they`ll be elsanta. I also hate the way supermarkets label strawbs by origin, not variety.

Yes, I was going to email them but thought I'd ask in case anyone else had already contacted them.

NeverInDebt

Tesco today labled strawberries by origin and variety. Granted they only had two varieties but 3 different sources. These were British strawberries as I wont buy foreign ones

cootambear wrote: »

Its worth asking them, odds are they`ll be elsanta. I also hate the way supermarkets label strawbs by origin, not variety.

NeverInDebt

£1 seems a lot for one plant. I got 12 last year for £3 from Suttons think they were called Cambridge

sb44

NeverInDebt wrote: »

£1 seems a lot for one plant. I got 12 last year for £3 from Suttons think they were called Cambridge

So did I but I was using Morrisons car park and wanted to spend £2 to get my parking fee back so went for these.

Plus, as I said they had a few runners on them so I will have at least 8 plants altogether as the runners had long roots already growing from them.

The Cambridge Favourite are beautiful but I thought I would try another variety as well.

NeverInDebt

Yes the Cambridges ones are nice, mine are quiet ready yet still have them forming into fruit

I got 12 extra plants from mine last year could have got more now have 36

Just ate some Tesco strawberries with ice cream of course. Yummy cant beat English strawberries foreign ones dont taste of ought

sb44 wrote: »

So did I but I was using Morrisons car park and wanted to spend £2 to get my parking fee back so went for these.

Plus, as I said they had a few runners on them so I will have at least 8 plants altogether as the runners had long roots already growing from them.

The Cambridge Favourite are beautiful but I thought I would try another variety as well.

cootambear

NeverInDebt wrote: »

Yes the Cambridges ones are nice, mine are quiet ready yet still have them forming into fruit

I got 12 extra plants from mine last year could have got more now have 36

Just ate some Tesco strawberries with ice cream of course. Yummy cant beat English strawberries foreign ones dont taste of ought[/QUOTE]

The english climate is probably the best in the world for growing strawbs.

Therefore, variety X grown in a polytunnel in Spain, tastes worse than variety X grown in fields in england.

But heres the big but.

Variety is more important than origin.

There are about 1,000 varieties of strawbs.

99% of which are better than the supermarkets.

You know me well I hope. I think that this self sufficiently mallarky is vainglorious.

But this is about taste.

Supermarket varieties of strawbs taste like minature turnips.

Grow yer own from tasty varieties.

cootambear

oh

and btw

if you pick up a pack of strawbs

sniff them through the airholes

if you are not immediately overpowered by a delicious scent

then throw them back in disgust

sb44

cootambear wrote: »

NeverInDebt wrote: »

Grow yer own from tasty varieties.

Yes and for anyone thinking of growing strawberries, def try Cambridge Favourite, they taste superb!

I have about 12 new plants too from the runners last year, can't wait, I've discovered they are outstanding in muffins.

I think I may have a go at strawberry gin or something like that this year too, assuming we have enough strawbs that is.

sb44

NeverInDebt wrote: »

Yes the Cambridges ones are nice, mine are quiet ready yet still have them forming into fruit

I got 12 extra plants from mine last year could have got more now have 36

Just ate some Tesco strawberries with ice cream of course. Yummy cant beat English strawberries foreign ones dont taste of ought

I bought some from Tesco last week but only because they were reduced to about 50p and they did taste very nice, didn't notice what variety they were or which country they came from.

I also bought some reduced in the CoOp last week which came from Spain (not sure of the variety) but they were not very sweet at all, won't bother with those again even if they are reduced.