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Has anyone come across these?
http://www.aliexpress.com/price/indo...rbs-price.html And before anyone says anything there also white, yellow as well as red strawberries. David @ a sunny part of Swansea Bay |
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On Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:27:22 AM UTC+1, Dave Hill wrote:
Has anyone come across these? http://www.aliexpress.com/price/indo...rbs-price.html And before anyone says anything there also white, yellow as well as red strawberries. David @ a sunny part of Swansea Bay No, nor the '5pcs/bag SEVEN COLOUR Flower Seeds every Petal is one colour' - are they for real? NT |
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On 18/05/2013 11:27, David Hill wrote:
Has anyone come across these? http://www.aliexpress.com/price/indo...rbs-price.html And before anyone says anything there also white, yellow as well as red strawberries. David @ a sunny part of Swansea Bay what's the trade description act like there David? I cannot for the life of me see that the photograph of the flower with every petal a different and distinct colour is real!! I don't care what colour they are, if I ma growing for food Taste comes before all else :) -- Janet T. Amersham |
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On Sat, 18 May 2013 11:27:22 +0100, David Hill
wrote: Has anyone come across these? http://www.aliexpress.com/price/indo...rbs-price.html And before anyone says anything there also white, yellow as well as red strawberries. David @ a sunny part of Swansea Bay That multi-coloured flower looks like little bits of plastic stuck together. No way can it be real! The white strawberries (actually pineberries) have, though, been available commercially for quite a few years (apparently a much older plant that was thought to be extinct until "discovered" in the early 2000s). I've never been tempted by them as I somehow don't fancy a strawberry that tastes of pineapple. -- Cheers, Jake ======================================= Hobbling along and Urgling from the East end of Swansea Bay |
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On 18/05/2013 11:27, David Hill wrote:
Has anyone come across these? http://www.aliexpress.com/price/indo...rbs-price.html And before anyone says anything there also white, yellow as well as red strawberries. David @ a sunny part of Swansea Bay I am bit suspicious of the flower with every petal a different colour. I have seen white and yellow strawberry plants offered in the UK this year. Maybe RHS or Best4Plants or whatever they are called now. Also he http://strawberryplants.org/2010/09/...y-pineberries/ -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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On Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:14:41 PM UTC+1, Martin Brown wrote:
I am bit suspicious of the flower with every petal a different colour. I'm not. I'm hugely suspicious! NT |
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On 18/05/2013 11:40, Janet Tweedy wrote:
On 18/05/2013 11:27, David Hill wrote: Has anyone come across these? http://www.aliexpress.com/price/indo...rbs-price.html And before anyone says anything there also white, yellow as well as red strawberries. David @ a sunny part of Swansea Bay what's the trade description act like there David? I cannot for the life of me see that the photograph of the flower with every petal a different and distinct colour is real!! I don't care what colour they are, if I ma growing for food Taste comes before all else :) I did try growing black tomatoes either last year or the year before. They tasted roughly like wet cardboard and with a texture to match. They were not quite black either - more dirty unappetising brown :( Yellow alpine strawberries are OK though a bit small and have the distinct advantage that birds don't recognise them are ripe fruit. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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Martin Brown wrote: I did try growing black tomatoes either last year or the year before. They tasted roughly like wet cardboard and with a texture to match. That is unlikely to be due to the variety as much as the continual gloom of the last, for lack of a better word, summer. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Sat, 18 May 2013 21:13:35 +0100, Martin Brown wrote:
I did try growing black tomatoes either last year or the year before. They tasted roughly like wet cardboard and with a texture to match. They were not quite black either - more dirty unappetising brown I get these from a local chap, they are fabulous and sweet, good crisp texture. Highly sought after. Something didn't go properly I suspect. -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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Martin Brown wrote:
I did try growing black tomatoes either last year or the year before. They tasted roughly like wet cardboard and with a texture to match. They were not quite black either - more dirty unappetising brown :( I have found the same on both counts. Black cherry were the small ones, which were mostly tasteless, and prone to splitting. I am trying the last of my White Wonder seeds this year. But my attempts to grow anything but tomatoey coloured tomatoes has met with mostly disaster. We got some ok Cream Sausage tomatoes, but then the plants came down with blight before anything else was even fruiting. Yellow alpine strawberries are OK though a bit small and have the distinct advantage that birds don't recognise them are ripe fruit. I don't like alpine strawberries, but the white ones seem to be a lot nicer than the red. The red ones taste gritty. The white ones were a lot more palatable. I wonder if they're good for jam. White strawberry jam may go down well with the gardening club show (as a change from my aronia berry and redcurrant) |
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kay wrote:
I've never had any problem with birds taking alpine strawberries. I don't think they bother when there's so much else around which doesn't involve dangerous ground feeding. The main stealers of my pot of alpine strawberries are the little boys who find it much more exciting to search for them than for 'real' strawberries |
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