Tag: strawberry

  • Strawberry Fields Forever

    Strawberry Fields Forever

    I would be happy growing strawberries in fields forever, if I had a field, but I don’t. So I’ll have to just stick to my small raised bed for now. You don’t need big fields to get a good crop of strawberries, you only need a small space because the plants can be packed together…

  • Strawberries – How to Multiply your Number of Strawberry Plants

    Strawberries – How to Multiply your Number of Strawberry Plants

    Do you love strawberries? Yes! I do too and I love a freebie or two. Strawberries are one of the fruiting plants that love to give the gift of more plants year after year. How do I get more Strawberry plants next year? Well I’m glad you asked, I’ve just finished potting up about 11…

  • Strawberries – My leaves look like lace, what’s eating my strawberry leaves?

    Strawberries – My leaves look like lace, what’s eating my strawberry leaves?

    It’s June, it’s Strawberry harvesting season, and some pests want to butt into the harvest party like an uninvited guest! The latest pest on our Strawberry plants, have shredded the leaves leaving elongated oval shapes in the leaves. The strawberry leaves look like lace, so let’s look at what might be eating the leaves. Strawberry…

  • August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, strawberries, Baby squash, ball courgettes, Carrots, French beans, spinach, tomatoes.

    August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, strawberries, Baby squash, ball courgettes, Carrots, French beans, spinach, tomatoes.

    The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…

  • August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.

    August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.

    The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…

  • Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest

    Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest

    The new fruit plants – 2 blueberries bushes, 1 blackberry bush, 5 summer fruiting raspberry canes and 2nd strawberry plants have all performed extremely well this year with regular harvests from Early July (we are in the UK). If anyone is thinking of getting some berry bushes or fruit canes, do it, you won’t regret…

  • July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.

    July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.

    The vegetable garden is in full bloom and everything is going well. Due to all the rain we have been having, there has been no need to put the watering system or use the water from the waterbutts, luckily it has all fallen from the sky so far. Here’s a picture of the vegetable garden…

  • Spring Flowers of Fruit

    Spring Flowers of Fruit

    All the fruit trees, bushes and plants we have in our garden this year are now flowering. It is a glorious sight, with the pink Apple blossom and white flowers bells on the blueberries and the white petals on the strawberries. All ready for bearing fruit this year. We also planted some flower bulbs in…

  • Jobs in the Vegetable Garden in February

    Jobs in the Vegetable Garden in February

    Last weekend was the beginning of the better weather for the UK, so I was out in the garden giving the vegetable plot a spring clean and my husband was clearing out our shed so we have a bit of room for my new potting bench from Aldi (bought last year) so we can sow…