Netto's Strawberries
Fragaria x ananassa

1.5 mutant fruits from 4 flowers. Not sure what’s happening.

Best strawberry so far. It tasted brilliant.
There are still more strawberries ripening on this plant, and they still haven’t been attacked by slugs!
Interestingly, 1-2 out of every three strawberries seems to be aborted at the early fruit growth stage. I wonder why?

One strawberry plant is, I think, trying to tell me it’s unhappy in its pot. It hasn’t produced fruit or even flowers. But it has just started to grow the fastest moving runner I have ever seen. I think it’s growing at about an inch a day. I wonder if I should leave it on and give it a chance to grow baby strawberry plants free from the confines of the pot. On the other hand I have also read that runners should be removed to improve the strawberry crop (which, let’s face it, is a dismal 0 for this plant). For now, my indecision means the runner stays attached, but not yet lying over bare soil.

Funnily enough, although there are three plants in the one pot, all the action seems to be happening with just one plant.

You can see that I have thoughtfully shared one of my strawberries with a hungry slug.
The other one didn’t taste half bad!

Look at this little guy! I’m so excited – my first ever strawberry.
How do I tell when she’s ripe enough to eat?

Strawberries have such cute little flowers. You can see the rose family resemblance. I’m certainly not picking them for display though – no, I want the fruit!!