My wild alpine strawberries have started cropping this week, and so far I am picking about a pound every two days - in other words, it looks like being a really good year for them. Are garden strawberries doing as well? What experience are other people having?

I should add that I'm in Yorkshire, and while we have been having dry weather, we're not yet at the stage of needing to water crops in the ground.

On 01/07/2010 17:12, kay wrote:
The Radio 4 programme Material World is sponsoring some research into
homing instincts of snails. As part of this, they are looking for people
willing to swap snails with their friends - you both collect snails from
your garden, dab different coloured paint on to their shells, swap
snails, release your friend's snails in your garden, then wait to see if
your snails, released in their garden (and identifiable by different
paint colour on shell) find their way back to your garden.

Click on 'The great Snail swap' link at the bottom of this page:
'BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Material World, 01/07/2010'
(http://tinyurl.com/38o7y8p)




It has all the makings of a great new Disney film.......... there's old
old, wise, slow snail who been round the block a few times and come to
terms with the hardships of life; then there's the young, bouncy, up for
anything, but a bit of a wimp when trouble strikes (he'll be the one
hiding under a leaf when the thrush comes along) and there's theeir slim
sleak and constantly complaining sluggy friend...... All cast adrift in
an alien world, desparate to make their way back to the home and friends
they knew and loved, dealing with adventure and tradgedy along the way....

Sorry - think I've overdosed on the wet stuff from the sky this morning;-)
Jill

On 02/07/10 08:52, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:12:01 +0000, kay
wrote:


The Radio 4 programme Material World is sponsoring some research into
homing instincts of snails. As part of this, they are looking for people
willing to swap snails with their friends - you both collect snails from
your garden, dab different coloured paint on to their shells, swap
snails, release your friend's snails in your garden, then wait to see if
your snails, released in their garden (and identifiable by different
paint colour on shell) find their way back to your garden.

Click on 'The great Snail swap' link at the bottom of this page:
'BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Material World, 01/07/2010'
(http://tinyurl.com/38o7y8p)

I do it all the time, except I don't paint them and my neighbour
doesn't know......

LOL

"Jill Bell" wrote in message
news
On 01/07/2010 17:12, kay wrote:
The Radio 4 programme Material World is sponsoring some
research into
homing instincts of snails. As part of this, they are looking
for people
willing to swap snails with their friends - you both collect
snails from
your garden, dab different coloured paint on to their shells,
swap
snails, release your friend's snails in your garden, then wait
to see if
your snails, released in their garden (and identifiable by
different
paint colour on shell) find their way back to your garden.

Click on 'The great Snail swap' link at the bottom of this
page:
'BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Material World, 01/07/2010'
(http://tinyurl.com/38o7y8p)




It has all the makings of a great new Disney film..........
there's old old, wise, slow snail who been round the block a
few times and come to terms with the hardships of life; then
there's the young, bouncy, up for anything, but a bit of a wimp
when trouble strikes (he'll be the one hiding under a leaf when
the thrush comes along) and there's theeir slim sleak and
constantly complaining sluggy friend...... All cast adrift in
an alien world, desparate to make their way back to the home
and friends they knew and loved, dealing with adventure and
tradgedy along the way....

Sorry - think I've overdosed on the wet stuff from the sky this
morning;-)
Jill

And there was me thinking you have been drinking from wet glasses
again :-)

Mike

On 02/07/2010 08:11, Jill Bell wrote:

It has all the makings of a great new Disney film.......... there's old
old, wise, slow snail who been round the block a few times and come to
terms with the hardships of life; then there's the young, bouncy, up for
anything, but a bit of a wimp when trouble strikes (he'll be the one
hiding under a leaf when the thrush comes along) and there's theeir slim
sleak and constantly complaining sluggy friend...... All cast adrift in
an alien world, desparate to make their way back to the home and friends
they knew and loved, dealing with adventure and tradgedy along the way....

Sorry - think I've overdosed on the wet stuff from the sky this morning;-)
Jill

You should write for Disney.

On 01/07/2010 18:12, kay wrote:
The Radio 4 programme Material World is sponsoring some research into
homing instincts of snails. As part of this, they are looking for people
willing to swap snails with their friends - you both collect snails from
your garden, dab different coloured paint on to their shells, swap
snails, release your friend's snails in your garden, then wait to see if
your snails, released in their garden (and identifiable by different
paint colour on shell) find their way back to your garden.

Click on 'The great Snail swap' link at the bottom of this page:
'BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Material World, 01/07/2010'
(http://tinyurl.com/38o7y8p)





Anyone on the South coast like to do a snail swap with me here in
Normandy :-) see if the buggers can swim?

--
David in Normandy.
To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the
subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
by a filter and not reach my inbox.

On 2 July, 14:39, David in Normandy
wrote:
On 01/07/2010 18:12, kay wrote:

The Radio 4 programme Material World is sponsoring some research into
homing instincts of snails. As part of this, they are looking for people
willing to swap snails with their friends - you both collect snails from
your garden, dab different coloured paint on to their shells, swap
snails, release your friend's snails in your garden, then wait to see if
your snails, released in their garden (and identifiable by different
paint colour on shell) find their way back to your garden.

Click on 'The great Snail swap' link at the bottom of this page:
'BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Material World, 01/07/2010'
(http://tinyurl.com/38o7y8p)

Anyone on the South coast like to do a snail swap with me here in
Normandy :-) see if the buggers can swim?

--
David in Normandy. *
* *To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the
* *subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
* *by a filter and not reach my inbox.

If they do swim then it will have to be Crawl

David Hill