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I haven't been around much, but I'm a bit bummed I missed out on yesterdays thread, because it was a strawberry and last night I consumed my first ever home grown strawberry
It was only little bit it tasted good!
savour that strawb experience. Strawberries seem to be a high value target for every single bird in the neighbourhood so protect the crop
It was savoured! I put some netting over the box, so hopefully that'll make the birds leave it alone
Homegrown strawbs are the BEST! More to come I hope.
Heaps more on the way!
Home grown strawberries are the best! So sweet! I hope there are lots more to come on your plant, keep the water up to it and it'll keep producing
There's about a dozen strawberries that are already beginning to form, and that's just on the top. There's heaps more under the leaves. I started with 4 plants and now the entire planter box looks like a jungle
They'll keep coming, I've been picking a handful a day. They don't make it inside ๐
Wow, congratulations!! I have the shittiest luck with strawberries - wilting, mildew, not to mention slugs AND birds - so that is a very rewarding outcome for someone who was so nervous about growing plants :)
Hope you feel inspired to continue on your horticultural journey :D
There's been a few things nibbling away at some of the leaves, but (touch wood) everything's mostly alright. The pineberries are a different story, though. The gnats killed one of the plants and the other seems to not be doing much of anything. It's not dead, but it's not producing runners, or flowering, or fruiting. Birds (and hopefully slugs) will be deterred by the netting we chucked over it though!
Thank you!