Strawberry Plants - knowing when they're done!

cootambear

iQueen wrote: »

Oh, bu**er! Just ordered some fruit trees from Parkers, from their Spring booklet. I didn't realise they had a wholesale site!

I was tempted to buy 3 varieties, to cover the whole season, and that included CF. This year, I just wanted to something acceptable (and cheap). I shall buy some seed for next year's crop.

Have you any suggestions for early and lates? I get a lot of rain in normal years, pretty temperate climate, and also my garden is plagued by slugs!

gariguette are a bit early, and mara des bois will crop though till the autumn (chefs dispute which is the tastiest)

strawbs will grow in pretty much any type of soil, (I grown mine in gravel and sand!), but they dont like standing in water, unless your ground is boggy then no probs

climate again is no prob, they grow in alaska and the tropics, but ours is ideal

slugs, we try, but no one has a complete solution

throw a few pellets around, but accept some losses

cootambear

iQueen wrote: »

When you look at the age of the foodies, is it surprising that they promote whatever a supermarket will pay them for?

We now have at least TWO generations that have never experienced the REAL taste of fruit and vegetables - just the insipid, under-ripe, manufactured carp, demanded by the supermarkets! No one takes the complaints of older people seriously, blaming our 'failing' tastebuds, rather than admit that the supermarkets are selling us rubbish. Before long there will be no one left to complain.

jamie oliver gets a nice earner from promoting supermarket foods then has the cheek to get pious and into blaming parents for not buying `real food` for their kids