Teeny weeny strawberries

[mrpaulbradley]

Not a happy chappy. Came back from a couple of weeks away and my strawberries (if you can call them that) are tiny! Plenty of them but not even as big as rasps, and almost as soft.

Not been much of a fruit grower in the past apart from apples, any advice as to what went wrong?

[Potstubsdustbins]

Sounds like lack of food to me, could be wrong though.

Colin

[rustylady]

Where are they growing Paul?

[Two_Sheds]

Mine are the same now ~ it's the drought (for me at least)

[Aberdeenplotter]

My main variety is Maxim with berries about 4ozs. Small strawbs are really tasty as well though.

[Jeanied]

The older the plants get, the smaller the fruits seem to be. And in dry years the fruit is very small too.

[Snadger]

Strawberries are prone to viral attacks thats why its best to dig em up and start again with fresh plants in a different position every couple of years!

[Jono]

Reckon its the dry weather. I water mine more than any other crop, but its only the rain that makes any proper difference in my experience. Amazing how much bigger they grow after a few downpours.

[robD]

Yep, another vote for lack of water here too. You need to water them when they are flowering and beyond if it's dry.

[mrpaulbradley]

Lol! Believe me, the one thing we haven't lacked in Glasgow is water! Is been pi...pouring down, and even when we had the dry bit (about a week) they were well watered. and well fed also.
It could be location. They've been there a couple of years and it's a patch surrounding a big cut down barrel that I grow a variety of things in. Last year it was a poor yield but decent sized fruit, this year it's quality of the increased yield that's wrong. Me-thinks it's time to start afresh and find a new location. Times like this I wish I had a lotty. Running out of options in the garden!

[Aberdeenplotter]

here's a pic of a maxim berry and to show I can do magic and make a strawberry disappear

[Potstubsdustbins]

Pure magic thought of the tele have you LOL


Colin

[Hillwalker]

What happened to the 20p?

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'm a scotsman matey, what do you think?

[mrpaulbradley]

I'm a scotsman matey, what do you think?

He dropped it and it hit him on the back of the head!

There's the other old gag about copper wire being invented by two Aberdonians fighting over tuppence, but that'd be taking it too far.

So. Back on topic; maxim strawbs are the way to go!