First Strawberries

[gojiberry]

Mine are marshmallo and they are delish, they are in a raised bed with netting over the lot as my blackbirds love any fruit. I also grew some alpine strawberries from seed in Jan and the plants are looking brill and just starting to flower which I didn't really expect this year. I only sowed half the packet and I have about 40 plants.

Ian

[Cloud]

I also grew some from seed Sarian F1 plenty of fruit this year but not ripe yet waiting to see if they taste as good as Irresistable!

[scarey55]

Couldn't resist a chance to show off - well, I don't get that many
All we need now is a bit of sun to ripen it off.

[Cloud]

Sorry scarey55 but didn't want to p*** on your bonfire.Mine are larger than that

[scarey55]

Bummer

Well I hope you enjoy yours. Are you just planning to eat them or will you make some jam or wine or something.

[Cloud]

I would like to make some jam but only got 15 plants.
Hope to take some runners and increase this,but at the moment I just wanna eat em!

[zazen999]

I had my first 3 last night - sweet as anything. Next 2 are ripening as we speak.

[scarey55]

Hope to take some runners and increase this,but at the moment I just wanna eat em!

Hope you're like me next year, I had so many runners I couldn't give them away quickly enough this year.
but then, if you give them away there's not so many for you to eat

[trebellangeminired]

Ate 5 mignonette today. Money can't buy such things... Look forward to comparing notes on Sarian. Mine still very small.

[sewer rat]

I sold twelve punnets (12 x 400g = 4.8 kg !!!!!) at the Farmers Market on Saturday - now that's a result - only got 60 plants !! And still they are producing fruit (and runners )

[TonyF]

We've been eating then for about three weeks now, despite the lack of sun.

Plenty of the larger cultivated fruits but thousands of the small 'wild' strawberries, we're giving them away by the box because we just can't keep up with them and they seem to be sprouting up all over the garden. We even found some growing on the roadside outside the house yesterday.

[Cloud]

Ate 5 mignonette today. Money can't buy such things... Look forward to comparing notes on Sarian. Mine still very small.

My sarian are rirenening and should be ready in the next couple of days,be intresting to see what they are like.

[Cloud]

Well had another load of berries took them to work and they lasted about an hour,then came home from work and picked some more.They seem to ripen fasyer than I can pick em.

[trebellangeminired]

Ate the one ripe Sarian, small but delicious : )

[Gwyndy]

I have never had such a large crop of strawberries. The plants are loaded.