In which a jobbing foodie could do a better job than I.

[hirez]

The accidental strawberry plants have been fruiting like bastards lo this past couple of weeks. The downside is that since I planted them in a growbag and left them to it, they've had no nutrients from the soil to speak of, so the strawberries themselves are by and large the size of peanuts.

However.

Imagine, if you will, the Platonic ideal[2] of strawberry flavour. Something that has a next-to-impossible taste because it was carefully put together in a lab and then distilled by Belgian brewing robots[1] from the next universe over.

Each one is like that. As if someone has set off a small but powerful strawberry-flavoured hand grenade in your mouth.


I'm going to have to dig up some flowerbed so as to give them something to get their roots into as a reward. No doubt they'll never produce anything quite as striking again, but it would be bad form to do anything else.








[1] Like electric monks, but actually useful.
[2] Although, I probably don't mean that. Hm. An object which is the totality of strawberryness?

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Might they be wild strawberries ?

We have a patch of those that arrived from whoknowswhere, and they match your description. I don't think those berries go any bigger.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

You mean the kind that grow upside down from a bag? That you hang on your porch???

You wordpaint a delicious picture. Mmmmmm....

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Icon says it all.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Not as such: http://www.gothpat.me.uk/album/bristol/tn/strawberries.jpg.html

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Possibly, but the seeds came from a packet.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I would say 'come and try some', but you'd have to lurk round the back of the garage until I'd gone to work, then bunk over the wall and help yourself. Assuming that I'd not decided to have a post-breakfast handful.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooh! I thought they were these: https://www.topsytree.com/flare/next?tag=os|sm|go|gn

[aidan-skinner.livejournal.com]

Wild strawberries are amazing, and totally match your description. There was an abandoned lime quarry where I grew up which was lousy with the buggers. As a result I find El Santa utterly intolerable. Not very sweet but utterly *Strawberry*.

Totally jealous.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Intruiging. Perhaps you have de-evolved them. Been playing a lot of Devo lately ?

[margotmetroland.livejournal.com]

Freeze-dry them!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I suspect inadvertent Bonsai strawberries.

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

dont put them in the beds, they will get eaten by slugs. put them in hanging baskets as a reward

[quercus.livejournal.com]

A reward for particularly athletic slugs?

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

You do get wild strawberry seeds in packets - the other sort are best grown from runners (the long shoots strawberry plants throw off, which have little plants on the end, the way spider plants do). We've got both sorts in the garden, and I let them grow where they like. There's something fun about wandering around pulling up weeds and finding a strawberry every so often as a sort of reward.