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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:01 pm Post subject:
Don't think we do. But, now that Monty Don's been mentioned, Bugs should be along to be rude about him if that helps.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:03 pm Post subject:
I think her venom is likely to be a good stand in.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:11 pm Post subject:
Maybe we should be a bit worried then - here's some before and after shots for Almeria in Southern Spain, near Motril. Beautiul coastline, completely covered for miles and miles and miles in white plastic greenhouses. The picture only shows a tiny part of it.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:15 pm Post subject:
If they can't use the land for agricultural purposes, they can go out of work, and destroy what's left of the local economy, and they can sell the land for housing and branches of Curry's.

mrutty

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon May 22, 06 11:12 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Maybe we should be a bit worried then - here's some before and after shots for Almeria in Southern Spain, near Motril. Beautiul coastline, completely covered for miles and miles and miles in white plastic greenhouses. The picture only shows a tiny part of it.

See that's why you should buy Spainish Strawberries, we don't want tossers over here ruining our countryside.

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2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 10:49 am Post subject:
market here has spainish strawberries - £2 a box and some others than were dearer but can't remember how much. co-op has spainish strawberries in as well, I bought some reduced ones yesterday for the cheesecake I made my strawberry plants are starting to flower now

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:01 am Post subject:
Our greengrocer had two punnets of English strawberries for £1 on Saturday. They were OK, but not quite there yet - and nothing like warm, home-grown ones straight from the garden!

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:03 am Post subject:
Got little green protofruit on our plants. The strawberries at the market aren't calling out to me yet. When they smell good enough so they call you in to the stall, thats when you buy them!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:03 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

nothing like warm, home-grown ones straight from the garden!

Why do so many people insist on eating their fruit refrigerated? Never made sense to me.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:04 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Why do so many people insist on eating their fruit refrigerated? Never made sense to me.

Ditto tomatoes. They taste of nothing if refrigerated.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:05 am Post subject:

cab wrote:

The strawberries at the market aren't calling out to me yet. When they smell good enough so they call you in to the stall, thats when you buy them!

These passed the smell test. Just lacking a bit in flavour.

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:48 am Post subject:
The strawberries on my patio seem to have ground to a halt. Through april they were storming ahead with growth and a few flowers, but now we're in May nothing seems to be happening - a reasonable number of flowers but they've gone back to being dormant.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 7:24 pm Post subject:
My alpines are pruducing fruit but they seem to have slowed alot too. Might be the sudden drop in temperature gale force winds and heavy rain non stop.........

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 7:32 pm Post subject:
spotted strawberries in the farm shop today - they were their own. I think they do have a couple of polytunnels, but they do a huge market in PYO so I don't think the Oxfordshire countryside will be decimated by polytunnels.

Gai

Joined: 31 Dec 2004
Posts: 408
Location: Ireland

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 7:59 pm Post subject:
We ate the first from our own polytunnel last week. The outdoor ones have taken a heavy battering from rain, hail, frost & wind over the last week though.

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