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Growing Strawberries in the Winter

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I sometimes wonder why we can buy reasonably decent strawberries  up until a few weeks before Christmas (OK, not fantastic, but at least they're nice small ones and taste of strawberries), then suddenly the shops switch to the large, dark red tasteless ones that I refuse to buy. Someone must buy them though, or the supermarkets wouldn't bother importing them.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Bright shiny things to attract the gullible😐
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I'll wait for some proper strawberries but, judging by the conditions this morning, it might be a while before I produce any myself.


    East Lancs
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    JennyJ said:
    I sometimes wonder why we can buy reasonably decent strawberries  up until a few weeks before Christmas (OK, not fantastic, but at least they're nice small ones and taste of strawberries), then suddenly the shops switch to the large, dark red tasteless ones that I refuse to buy. Someone must buy them though, or the supermarkets wouldn't bother importing them.


    Check where they are coming from you can get British ones well into November. So possibly those dark red ones are coming from a lot further away than the others.
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