Saturday was another cool August day (I very nearly typed autumn instead of August) with a few sunny spells to a least brighten up the day. Our average temperature for August has now fallen to 15.3°C and into the coldest August over the last five years spot. It still has some time left to make a comeback though.
We still haven’t decided on our strawberry varieties for our new patch to be planted up next spring. We did decide back in the middle of the strawberry picking season that we wouldn't bother growing an everbearing variety. Flamenco is our everybearing variety at the moment and it didn't perform very well back in early summer. Who needs poor performing strawberry plants.
For the second week in a row our old Flamenco plants have yielded up a punnet of delicious strawberries. A few fruits had some slug damage and a couple of strawberries had gone mouldy on the plants, not a surprise given the autumnal nature of the weather for the last couple of weeks. I think they've now done enough to earn a second chance.
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I tend to stick to Cambridge Favourite and Honeoye now, I've tried Gariguette and Mignon (I think that's what it was called) and a couple of other that were supposed to taste amazing, but they just didn't give a big enough crop. I'd be interested to know which one(s) you settle on, as I think I'm going to plant one of the beds at home with some.
ReplyDeleteWe're not really getting on very well at choosing our new varieties. So many to choose from and according to the catalogues all extremely tasty. I'll let you know which we eventually decide on.
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ReplyDeleteOur Florence were a no show this year despite plenty of cosseting - As you say no room for no show varieties.
All our strawberries were a bit disappointing in the main season this year Mal hence our decision to replant. It's made us really appreciate a few late strawberries though.
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