Proof that vegetable growing can be done by anybody. From a couple of under 30s – one who grew up growing and one who has just got going…
After an initial panic that our strawberry plants weren't growing as rapidly as we'd hoped, it turns out that even smallish plants can grow a fair crop of strawberries. This is the latest harvest! What this has got me wondering now is - how many strawberries could we have got if we'd started tending to... Continue Reading →
After a steady start, although still not the most vigorous plants, the strawberries are starting to produce fruit. Unfortunately a couple had already got pecks in from birds, so it was time to cover the plants with a net before we lost them all to our feathered friends! We made a simple frame up around... Continue Reading →
So I've decided I might not be such a strawberry pro! Although the plants are growing, they haven't produced plants that are nearly as big as we would've hoped! I have been watering them regularly to try and encourage them to grow, but it seems they just want to take it slowly! Last year we... Continue Reading →
The hanging basket strawberries are growing away now, I think they like their new planters! Due to the wind we've been experiencing, we haven't hung them up yet, but we will do once the weather looks like it's going to be a bit better! We're just keeping them watered as and when the compost looks... Continue Reading →
Although we mostly grow vegetables, we've also grown strawberries for the past couple of years. We gave you an update on our strawberry plants in the garden a couple of weeks ago, but here's an update on what we've got planned for some of the runners we took off these plants last year. Strawberries should... Continue Reading →
Last weekend, I did a bit of tidying of the strawberry bed. We're hoping for a slightly more successful season with the strawberries this year. There were two main reasons we think we didn't get many strawberries last year: We only bought the bare route runners quite late on in the Spring, which meant they... Continue Reading →
There are a few things that you haven't heard about for a while, so we thought we'd give you an update on these. Sweetcorn After a number of weeks where the plants didn't seem to make much progress at all, they seem to have got established now and have shot up all of a sudden.... Continue Reading →
We've grown strawberries for the last couple of years, but we felt like they needed a bit of a refresh this year for a couple of reasons: The plants we had been growing were becoming less prolific and the runners we'd taken weren't looking too great The plants we had been growing were given to... Continue Reading →
Having checked on the strawberry runners we potted up a couple of weeks ago, each of these have now rooted into their pot. Therefore, it was time to cut them loose from the parent plant so they can form their own plant. These will just be kept watered now until they have formed their own... Continue Reading →
