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wannabewriter
wannabewriter Member Posts: 114
edited 27. May 2011, 04:58 in Community Chit-chat archive
I just wanted to share with you that when I get home today I am looking forward to tasting my first ever home grown strawberry. It has been staring at me for too long, taunting me with its white-blush colour. But when I looked this morning, it was all lovely red and begging me to eat it.

Now, this might not seem a major achievement, but I have killed EVERY single plant I’ve ever owned, except my three lovely strawberry plants currently sitting on my kitchen windowsill. They are threatening to bear much fruit, and I will just have to eat them as soon as possible.

Does anyone else have non-green fingers, or am I the only one who kills all plants (except the strawberries!)....

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Well done to you and I hope the realisation lives up to the promise! Having not been able to eat fruit for most of my life (thanks to food intolerances) I have come late to the pleasures of fruit. Thanks to the immuno-suppressing drugs I can now eat the stuff and it's proved to be disappointing, to say the least. The quality seems to vary hugely. At least when I unwrap a Mars I know what I am getting. Perhaps the home-grown stuff is better.

    I kill plants too. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • constable
    constable Member Posts: 2,115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    I cannot grow any kind of plant, they die on me. Shame because I love plants. My parents-in-law have a whole garden dedicated to growing their own veg and they do strawberries, and they have two allotments now, I love it when we go up there, loads of freshly grown veg and fruit. You cant beat it.

    Karen xx
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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,430
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    That strawberry will be the best you have EVER eaten you know.....BUT make sure it is REALLY red if you can be patient.

    Lovely....

    perhaps your fingers are getting greener :grin:

    Hugs

    toni xx
  • katknapp
    katknapp Member Posts: 709
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    I confess im a mass murderer ...............of house plants,when i go to b&q,homebase etc the plants actually cringe when i walk past them :sad:
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Was a time when the only thing I could grow was stubble.. Last year though I proudly grew sweetcorn.. Potatoes.. Strawberries.. Garlic.. Onions.. Rosemary.. Thyme.. Lavender.. Apples.. I've got a small lemon tree that was bought for me a year ago plus two indoor plants.. None of which I've managed to kill. I'm gob smacked as I really really am a disaster with plants..

    My strawberries are coming back from the ones I planted last year, looks like a bumper crop of my favourite fruit.. Can't beat home grown. The spuds I grew last year were the nicest I'd ever tasted..

    Best of luck with the plants, be patient with the strawberries.. Lol
    :grin:
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  • jillyb1
    jillyb1 Member Posts: 1,725
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    I too am a savage house plant murderer ; my hubby now takes charge of all plants and won't allow me near any of them . For heavens sake , even an air plant on a rock has died in the past when in my care ! Jillyb
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    It is a bumper year for British strawberries as the weather conditions have been so lovely. Enjoy.


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  • flutterbye
    flutterbye Member Posts: 22
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    hope you enjoy your strawberry.....and hopefully the first of many :smile:
  • suncatcher
    suncatcher Member Posts: 2,174
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    I hope you enjoy your first home grown strawberry they are better than shop bought i only eat my own now. I find the shop ones too bitter. They are great with ice cream or cream or both go one spoil yourself enjoy Joanne
    Joanne
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Well? Did you eat it? How was it? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • wannabewriter
    wannabewriter Member Posts: 114
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    De-Lic-IOUS.

    Felt like a whole punnet of strawberries in one go.

    And now, I can see all the others ripening too, so just waiting for them to turn and I'll be able to scoff them as well!

    Yumyumyum.
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