Oct & strawberries

[HOBIE]

Its October & my strawberry plants have flowers on ? Has been cold in last week but !

 

[Redkite]

They make 'em tough up North Hobie! 😛

 

[grovesy]

I have been picking the odd strawberry still, but I am in Essex!

 

[trophywench]

I do believe you should have at least cut them back by now, if not completely scrapped them? You can grow new ones ready for next year from any of the runners.

 

[HOBIE]

I have been picking the odd strawberry still, but I am in Essex!

Good for you Grovsey. It might be just me but I love stuff out the garden. Sun out all today

 

[grovesy]

So do I . I also like my autumn raspberries which I have had into December

 

[Pumper_Sue]

@HOBIE I have the very small wild strawberries in fruit in my garden. Raspberries have just finished fruiting after a 2nd bumper crop this season. My landlord gave me the canes for a birthday present a few years back, so I put them in some very large tubs on the patio.

 

[HOBIE]

@HOBIE I have the very small wild strawberries in fruit in my garden. Raspberries have just finished fruiting after a 2nd bumper crop this season. My landlord gave me the canes for a birthday present a few years back, so I put them in some very large tubs on the patio.

I don't know what it is but don't they taste good Sue. It feels healthy 🙂

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

We went to take down the remains of our runner beans today and discovered they had new flowers too

And we have primulas out - it's clearly spring!

 

[Pumper_Sue]

We went to take down the remains of our runner beans today and discovered they had new flowers too

And we have primulas out - it's clearly spring!

Fuchsia's and roses are in full bloom as well 🙂
In contrast it was very dark at 7am when I removed my body from the bed this morning 🙂

 

[trophywench]

My fuchsia forest is absolutely overladen with blossom but that's nothing new, has lasted till January some years! and although the hydrangea blossom started to 'turn' over a month ago, it's still firmly on the plants and hasn't even gone brown yet. Batty.

Sue been meaning to say - gorgeous! - I adore primroses!

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Sue been meaning to say - gorgeous! - I adore primroses!

Thank you, I had the privilege of being allowed access to a private woodland where the primroses grow and 100 year old daffodil bulbs bloom every year in a derelict mill garden, my camera came with me on my walks 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Gorgeous - we used to have free access to a bit of ancient woodland (Water Wood, in the Forest of Arden) which not surprisingly had a fast flowing stream, complete with bluebells, primroses, wood anemones, some rare orchids and all sorts of other stuff. Sort of like the words of 'All things bright and beautiful' in reality! Plus wood wasps, worker bees as well as bumblies, and the sort that live in holes in the ground, ordinary wasps, giant (about 3 inches usually) hornets and all sorts of dicky birds. The latter included, unsurprisingly, about (what seemed like) a million wood pigeon. A friend used to swear the latter sat in branches, cooing 'arseholes, arseholes' at whoever walked below, as they deposited their effluent upon said humans ! Still makes me laugh when I see/hear one anywhere, 40 years later!