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My first ripe strawberry was DEVOURED by starlings the other day :-( That'll teach me not to net them.........I'm making sure they're not getting near the rest though!!!

im finding it very frustrating with my strawberriw ate my one and only ripe one yesterday and low and behold one was winking at me this morning, my son said he wanted the second one but................... i couldnt resist gonna tell him the slug ate it i have plenty of green ones they just seemed to be going one at a time

I have had to be a bit creative with my strawberry growing this year and try to use some height because of space restrictions.

I have created a 'strawberry wall' (see pics) and I am very pleased with the result, I just have to figure out where on earth I am going to put year 3 of my 3 year cycle plants next year

I have also bought myself 4 'Maxim' strawberry plants recently, apparantly they can grow to the size of the palm of your hand, so I couldn't resist to try them for novelty value alone. They are growing huge already as you can see in the pics, I just hope they will taste as nice.

I have the tastiest looking strawberry just daring me to eat it, everytime I enter the garden, but I promised myself that I would get to eat a bowl of strawberries this year so I am resisting, as last year they all got eaten individually whilst in the garden deadheading etc, my bad!


It hasn't been all plain sailing though, I lost around 15 plants over winter, to what I thought may be vine weevil grubs. However on closer inspection it appears they have rotted away due to being to wet with the water retaining gel crystals I used.

I have learnt from that mistake and planted all this year runners in compost alone.

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wow thats some strawberry wall good use of space, strawberries are thirsty plants spesh when in fruit hope you have a load of water butts sooo jealous