first strawberry for the year

nearly ready Sue -Teazle and myself have an eye on it

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Bazza I have been eating mine for a couple of weeks now .
I hope whoever gets your first strawberry enjoys it

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We've been away and I hadn't netted mine over yet, so my first ripe berries have been pecked to pieces by birds. Tomorrow I'm putting an electric fence up....

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I often wonder how a picture was taken? so this is how I did it with my panasonic HC-X900M camcorder

Sometimes little legs are best

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Lovely picture, it looks good enough to eat It is a battle in my garden as to who gets there first, me or the blackbirds!

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netting is the answer. Get some bamboo hoops from your garden centre with some netting, that is what we do. not over expensive either

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I ate my first one yesterday.
I won't have many this year because they are all first year plants, taken from runners last year.
Some people say you shouldn't let them fruit at all first year to build the plant up, but I shall have just a couple here and there.