Thursday, June 14, 2012

First strawberry

My grandmother's birthday was 13 June and we always had strawberries for her birthday tea. Sometimes just 2 or 3 strawberries each, sometimes a bowlful each. So I always judge whether strawberries are early or late by whether they ripen before or after Grandma's birthday. Yesterday, 13 June, I ate my first strawberry, from one of the new plants in the blue-glazed strawberry planter. Not particularly tasty so I probably won't set up my green-glazed planter with runners from these plants. (I am planning 3, each a different colour, so I know which pot has first year, which has second year, and which has third year strawberries.) I also had 8 autumn raspberries. Lots of fruit on the loganberries, but a long way from ripening yet.

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