We decided to take some of Jamie Oliver’s advice and grow our own strawberries in hanging baskets this year.
We have (or rather my good lady has) been taking good care of them as they’ve grown from little shoots. We kept looking out for little green strawberries to appear and when they did we were counting the days until we could eat them! Unfortunately the local bird population had other ideas so we netted them up after one particularly juicy strawberry disappeared without a trace one day (and my good lady swears she didn’t eat it).
More and more red strawberries looked almost ready for eating and then last night we decided enough was enough – it was time to harvest! As the title suggests, they really do taste sweeter when you grow your own. We’ve bought a few boxes of strawberries lately but they didn’t taste half as nice as the ones we picked – they were delicious!
Of course my good lady’s creative talents with food presentation made them taste even better:
So if you’ve got hanging baskets filled with boring pansies or some other tedious flowers then why not throw them in the bin and plant something you can later eat? That’s my kind of gardening! And if you don’t like strawberries then not to worry, invite me round your house and I’ll eat them for you! š
Very nice! Do they grow alright then given that you don’t get any sunshine up there? š We’re growing broad beans this year.
What they don’t get in sunshine they get in rain by the bucket load! That’s probably why they thrive!
We thought about broad beans but the other half’s not a fan – I guess she has a sweet tooth after all!