my first ever starawberry!!!!

[tammykins1968]

this is a pic of my first ever own grown strawberries

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we picked one today and cut it into four so we could each have a taste.
bloody ansome

oops wrong spelling at the top. ;-)

[Melinda]

W00t!

Congratulations! It'll be the first of many!

[Shaun]

that looks good cant wait till mine rippen then strawberries and cream yum yum

[rissa]

I,ve got a few strawberry plants,
there just beginning to form fruit.
Trouble is my kids get them before
i get a chance.lol

[Newtothis]

Congratulations on your strawberries, I've just noticed the largest strawberry of ours turning red today.....can't wait to taste it....It will be a four way cut for us too

[Kimby]

Can't wait for mine to ripen - I'm not sharing it with anyone!!! Lol

[Lesley Jay]

I hope you have all got a net over those ripening juicy strawberries because the birds pinch them!!

[Newtothis]

lol another thing to add to the list....

[Hollie the Wollie]

Oh wow that's excellent! I have got some growing but the fruit is still very small and green.

Can I ask what may be a silly question (that has just had me start doubting the whole name given to the Strawberry) but it looks like there is straw in amongst the plants. Was this to protect from frost?

[Newtothis]

I think it's to protect the fruit from touching the ground and rotting...another thing I should think about!

[Newtothis]

At the moment my little ripening one is on a nice flat piece of rubble to keep it off the ground

[Hollie the Wollie]

Originally Posted by Newtothis

I think it's to protect the fruit from touching the ground and rotting...another thing I should think about!

Oooh perhaps I should do this with mine. I have some hay - that will do, don't you think?

[Kimby]

Definitely Hollie - get something under that lovely fruit!

[hiyatim]

this looks yum!! my girlfriend is severly allergic to strawberries so i cant grow them (although i did try to grow alpine ones unsuccessfully )

[Newtothis]

I looked in wilkinson today, and only saw some chicken wire type stuff.....do you have to make something yourself out of that kind of material, or can you buy something already appropriate for the job?

[Newtothis]

Too late it's gone to the birds! This morning some naughty bird or birds polished off half of the ripening strawberry before I came down for breakfast...After breakfast I went out to take a picture of the half eaten fruit and it was gone, vanished no trace except for a piece of the stalk on the ground

[Lesley Jay]

Originally Posted by Newtothis

Too late it's gone to the birds! This morning some naughty bird or birds polished off half of the ripening strawberry before I came down for breakfast...After breakfast I went out to take a picture of the half eaten fruit and it was gone, vanished no trace except for a piece of the stalk on the ground

Oh no!! The birds are devils.

I just use a roll of green garden netting to throw over the plants and weigh it down with bricks or something to stop it blowing away.

[tammykins1968]

my big cat Felix keeps any birds out of my garden he's a cool outdoor cat.

[Newtothis]

Well at least my 4 year old has a good story to tell, she was the one that discovered the strawberry turning red, then found it half eaten and then found it gone b haha strawberry nets need to be sorted pretty soon.

[Newtothis]

Originally Posted by tammykins1968

my big cat Felix keeps any birds out of my garden he's a cool outdoor cat.

Aw I do miss having a cat, great company when you're out in the garden especially.