Strawberries

[Maydup]

Wow they really are something else this year aren't they? But selling quickly round here, I just managed to grab the last punnet of today's batch.

[237SJ]

I`d better get jam making then.

[albaqwerty]

From what I've hjeard radio and tv, there's a glut of the darlings this year.


yummy!!

[Elina]

Love strawberries!

[Frank97]

Sounds like a trip to Cheddar may be in order for me then, haven't had any yet this year.
I tell a lie, had some in January. The best looking and worst tasting ones I've ever eaten!

[mushroom25]

round here, they're strawberry's.

dontcha just love greengrocer's?

[boxtops]

The Kent fruit fields are anticipating a glut of both strawberries and cherries this year - yum.

I hope I don't have my usual stand-off with Tesco as to why they're importing hard black Spanish plums, when the Kentish Victoria plums were being ploughed back in previous years.....

[Elina]

Just to get your taste buds going.. http://img.food.com/img/recipes/22/94/72/large/picjnqpI3.jpg

[Ric.ror]

Oh it's a bit early isn't it
There's nothing on mine at the moment

[Elina]

Do you grow them in those pots with holes in ric.ror?

[Maydup]

Yes they are early and plentiful here. I do hope there's a glut and that they last all summer.

But I'd give all the strawberries i could pick for a bag of Kentish cherries! Last year Sainsburys sold them but i daren't tell my mother (East Kent born and bred) how much I paid for them; she'd have choked on her Gypsy Tart.

[askyourgran]

I've just washed a punnet of nice strawberries with a few raspberries for tea. It is a bit early in the year but these are from Hereford UK not those awful bland spanish ones.

[Ric.ror]

Well to be honest I only bought a plant last week from morrisons for£1
There wild strawberries too

[Elina]

I think they look lovely trailing in those pots ric.ror. Hope you get plenty off your plant!

[Maydup]

I can't seem to grow them fast enough to eat them myself. I like a nice big punnet with enough for breakfast as well as dessert in the evening.

[askyourgran]

Me too Maydup, I love cherries we had some lovely ones last year the crops seemed to last ages.

[woofgang]

The raspberries are good too. I make a pan of chocolate brownies and push fresh raspberries into it so every serving has a raspberry in it. so yummy.

[Peaspeculiars]

Walked past the greengrocer market stall and the smell of the strawberries in the sun lifted my spirits no end. Love the smells of summer to come!

[Ric.ror]

To be honest I'm not that bothered about strawberries really
I have planted about 5 different berry bushes this spring mainly to cover the ground which they are doing very well
As for eating them - I can leave them for the birds

[EcclesCake]

The fine folk of Ascot had sharpened their elbows at this mornings farmers market, there was quite a scrum at the fruit and veg stall to secure a punnet strawberries!

[maggiebee]

Just love going to Cairnie Fruit Farm in Fife and picking my own! Probably eat as much as I pick lol