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We English love our strawberries and cream...
Strawberries are incredibly easy to grow and are technically not berries.
The summer is coming and now is the time to plant them! (Yes now!)
Strawberry planters are great for several reasons - fruit is easier to see and pick - a big boon for the aged whom can't bend down and can be placed in easily accessible level surfaces like patios. They're great space savers as you're growing up not down. Once established, they're quite pretty too with a tumble down effect of fruit pouring down the sides. You can also move them about easily, so if a hard frost is due, you can move them into the greenhouse over the winter season.
In the UK you can buy strawberry planters but most people have a hard time with them because they don't set them up right to begin with and they're a real pain to water.
This instructable shows you one of the best ways to setup a strawberry planter to make feeding and watering a doddle!
Strawberries are incredibly easy to grow and are technically not berries.
The summer is coming and now is the time to plant them! (Yes now!)
Strawberry planters are great for several reasons - fruit is easier to see and pick - a big boon for the aged whom can't bend down and can be placed in easily accessible level surfaces like patios. They're great space savers as you're growing up not down. Once established, they're quite pretty too with a tumble down effect of fruit pouring down the sides. You can also move them about easily, so if a hard frost is due, you can move them into the greenhouse over the winter season.
In the UK you can buy strawberry planters but most people have a hard time with them because they don't set them up right to begin with and they're a real pain to water.
This instructable shows you one of the best ways to setup a strawberry planter to make feeding and watering a doddle!
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Signing UpStep 1What is a strawberry?
A berry is a fleshy many seeded fruit with the seeds imbedded inside the fruit (specifically a single fleshy body)
Strawberry seeds are infact outside the fruit, therefore they cannot be classified as a berry.
As it says here "Strawberries aren't even in the berry family at all. Nor are strawberries part of the "straw" family; They were originally known as "Strewberries" because they were found Strewn among the foliage."
In most part of England you'll most commonly find them growing natively in dry stone walls, with tiny alpine berries full of flavour, but not as big and juicy as modern cultivated stock.
Most people now assume 'strawberries' are called strawberries because when grown in fields to keep the fruit fresher for longer they are surrounded by a mulch of straw which also suppresses the weeds and reflects some of the sunlight to ripen the berries. I'm sure someone will tell me if I'm wrong in the comments. This in inevitable, so knock yourselves out.
Strawberry seeds are infact outside the fruit, therefore they cannot be classified as a berry.
As it says here "Strawberries aren't even in the berry family at all. Nor are strawberries part of the "straw" family; They were originally known as "Strewberries" because they were found Strewn among the foliage."
In most part of England you'll most commonly find them growing natively in dry stone walls, with tiny alpine berries full of flavour, but not as big and juicy as modern cultivated stock.
Most people now assume 'strawberries' are called strawberries because when grown in fields to keep the fruit fresher for longer they are surrounded by a mulch of straw which also suppresses the weeds and reflects some of the sunlight to ripen the berries. I'm sure someone will tell me if I'm wrong in the comments. This in inevitable, so knock yourselves out.
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Nov 21, 2010. 10:38 AM1-2BGardening
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Very cool idea! Would love to know or see photos of how these have worked out in the long run.
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Jul 4, 2010. 1:43 PMDamionLee
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Thank you for this i'ble. We had some strawberry plants in the garden of our new house. They have been dug up so we can grow them properly and are currently sitting in our kitchen temporary potting solution whilst we arrange something permanent. This looks ideal - so will be giving this a go soon. On a techy note, not only are Strawberries not berries, but they are not actually fruit either. They are 'pseudocarp' (because the reproductive organs are external, from memory).
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