Strawberry Picking

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Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 06 3:17 pm Post subject: Strawberry Picking
I was reminded of strawberry picking as a kid earlier, when I was filling up my second big punnet of strawberries from the allotment. I wasn't playing the 'one for the punnet/one for me' game this time though...well, a few might have jumped into my mouth Can I help it if I have suicidal strawberries? Thing is, I only got about a third of the way through the patch, we've got so many of them!

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 06 3:32 pm Post subject:
ive been trying to fins pick your own so i can tach the kids the joys of hidingas much fruit as possible in your tummies!! not that many round here, i have to drive all the way to brecon befor ethey start to appear..what has happened to them all?

Rowanlady

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 195
Location: NE Hampshire

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 06 3:49 pm Post subject:

jamsam wrote:

...........i can tach the kids the joys of hidingas much fruit as possible in your tummies!! ..............what has happened to them all?

Too many hidden in tummies -

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 06 3:50 pm Post subject:
I don't recall seeing ANY down here actually, they used to be everywhere in Scotland/Cumbria. Perhaps they've all gone from there too though

piggybreeder

Joined: 18 Jun 2006
Posts: 122
Location: Kirkbride Cumbria England

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 06 6:02 pm Post subject:
I havent seen any around here for a long time, there used to be one on the main Carlisle to Workington road but thats gone. Ther is one on the A69 Carlisle to Newcastle road, they also do blackberries,raspberries and a few veg lines. Maybee somethin I can look into.Hmmmm me thinks.

Platypus

Joined: 14 Apr 2005
Posts: 56
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 06 7:21 am Post subject:
Still got several PYO places around here, mind you there used to many, many more until the developers took a liking to our village! We tend to go to the one on Titchfield Road, great place that starts the year selling Daffs and Tulips, then as the summer comes on it's PYO strawbs, rasberries and goosegogs, and finishing the year with pumpkins and wallflowers.

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