Well, not yet. The other week, our Strawberry plants arrived, and so I hurriedly installed them into their designated patch as the light faded. The last few plants went in by the light of my head torch. But after a few days of rain and a touch of sun, they’ve all sprouted new growth. Now, these ain’t your normal supermarket-variety (can’t rally say garden variety here… precisely because the strawberries aren’t garden variety!), but are meant to be much tastier. So hopefully, come November-December, there’ll be a lotta berry-pickin’.
Our two varieties are “Cambridge Rival” and “Chandler”. Apparently, these scored a taste-test mark of 95 and 82 respectively, compared with 25 for supermarket berries.
We have twenty odd plants, so if all of them actually produce fruit, maybe strawberry punnets would make a good Christmas present this year. Apparently, from what we ordered and planted, you can grow up to 10kg of strawberries – that’s 40 punnets! Well, that’s what they say in the catalogue, at any rate.
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