Really Fruitful Gardening
Amateur Gardening|May 16, 2020
Grow the best-eating strawberries yourself, says Peter
- Peter Seabrook
Really Fruitful Gardening
There has been much talk about a shortage of people to harvest crops, which I personally find difficult to understand. I spent a month in my late teens picking apples and loved it, up with the lark, out in the orchard with the birds singing, and up ladders picking rosy red, sweet ‘Worcester Pearmain’ apples.

Recently, I covered a strawberry harvesting story, and this is no longer the back-breaking job it used to be. Fruits are either chest high with the tabletop growbag system, or pickers are nine abreast, lying horizontal on a picking rig travelling forward, so the ripe fruits come to the pickers.

Strawberries are coming nicely into flower in my garden, and it will not be long before we have the seasonal switch from tart rhubarb to fragrant berries. Several early strawberry flowers in a low hollow, on a Reading allotment had tell-tale black centres. This is the sign of night frost damage – but with luck, subsequent flowers with yellow centres should set fruits OK.

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この蚘事は Amateur Gardening の May 16, 2020 版に掲茉されおいたす。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トラむアルを開始しお、䜕千もの厳遞されたプレミアム ストヌリヌ、9,000 以䞊の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしおください。