Guess what?
I'll be gorging on wild strawberries pretty soon! I can't wait!
In case you don't remember (or have not been here before) - it's the same plant that travelled through half of Europe in an ordinary postal package, straight from my parents' garden to mine. It looked rather sad right after the transit:
The brave strawberries regained life pretty soon, within a month or so being covered in fresh green leaves and sprouting first tentative flowers.
Now the plant has plenty of small, yellow-still fruits and I'm counting the days down to my first strawberries-and-cream of the summer. Yeah!
True, this will probably be very tiny dessert - I expect a spoonful or two after I've shared it with my other half - but IT WILL BE THERE. And at present there is no chance whatsoever of buying wild strawberries on the Irish market. It's simply not possible, at least as far as I know.
Well, I've had my share of gardening failures (sad story of a raspberry bush, anyone?), but wild strawberries are definitely a bright success.
Another week or so...
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