Chicken picking at feet

[fluffyknickers]

Thanks.

 

No its netting with miniscule holes almost like a mesh. I have just laid it across the strawberry bags at the moment.

 

Maybe I will remove it for a bit later and hang around the garden so the birds dont come.

 

Not sure what sort of thing I need to stop the birds getting to it as I have plants in the top and round the side - its the planters form lakeland.

 

Michelle

 

edited to add - its these

 

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/strawberry-patio-planters/F/keyword/strawberry/product/50949

[Christian]

If the runners have already rooted in the soil you can cut them off at the parent plant and put the rooted plantlet into a separate pot to grow on. I had 30+ last year, but only have a couple of plantlets left now. Will put them in the borders at some point/

 

Each plant will send out several runners, so if you chop them off now, there will be more later in the year for new plants.

 

My strawbs are getting a lot bigger now. No sign of any red ones yet, but hopefully they will do soon. Plans for strawberry jam are alive and kicking

[chickencam]

Our strawberries are huge this year, with all this rain

[Christian]

Been in the garden to let the hens out and my strawbs are turning red

[redhotchick]

I've just picked 7 juicy red "Cristina" and ate them for breakfast!

I cut a bit off each for the chickens and laughed as they chased each other for them.

[Lesley]

I've just had warm strawberries for breakfast as well - I had to share mine with the dog!

[Chook n Boo Mum]

What spoiled creatures we share our lives with...our 3 hair balls had to make do with a piece of well-done toast crust each after DH brought me breakie in bed this morning Chooks have just had a few over ripe blueberries to s"Ooops, word censored!" over !

 

Sha x

[Valkyrie]

Which variety of strawberries do you think taste the nicest? A lady near my mum brought her some home grown strawberries and mum said they were delicious - of course nothing compares with home grown anyway. But we were thinking of strawberries again - there were some when we moved in years ago, but they weren't that good.

[Old Speckled Hen]

My strawbs are doing wonderfully, especially after I raised my pots off the ground and netted them. They taste heavenly, warm off the plant, but oh how I wish I'd kept the labels.

They were from Aldi and they have done really well.

Did anybody else get any from there and keep the labels?

[redhotchick]

My strawbs are doing wonderfully, especially after I raised my pots off the ground and netted them. They taste heavenly, warm off the plant, but oh how I wish I'd kept the labels.

They were from Aldi and they have done really well.

Did anybody else get any from there and keep the labels?

 

Me, Me, Me! (jumping up and down with hand up!)

They are Christina, Alice and Amelia. What I have had off them has tasted good.

I have some Cambridge Favourite in my borders, but the quality is a bit hit and miss.

I picked 12oz tonight, I ate most of them but there was hardly a tasty one in the lot.

It's been wet here tonight though, and I have been told not to pick them after rain.

[chickencam]

We have quite a few unknown ones which have been moved around from runnrers over the years, but we have quite a lot of Marshmallow which are lovely, quite pale and soft but they have a nice clean flavour. I don't like the ones which taste slightly muddy and are often darker red.

[Cinnamon]

 

Me, Me, Me! (jumping up and down with hand up!)

They are Christina, Alice and Amelia. What I have had off them has tasted good.

I have some Cambridge Favourite in my borders, but the quality is a bit hit and miss.

I picked 12oz tonight, I ate most of them but there was hardly a tasty one in the lot.

It's been wet here tonight though, and I have been told not to pick them after rain.

 

 

I got those too - they are great aren't they?

 

I had a plant given to me by a Freecycler who came to pick something up the other day, & its really lovely - has cerise pink flowers

It actually split into 3 when I repotted it, so I have hopes that they will do well. Even if the fruits are rubbish,its a very pretty plant.

[chickencam]

Do you know whether it is a trailing one? We had one in a hanging basket once that was so pretty with lovely pink flowers and long slim fruits that didn't taste of much but the plant was lovely. We lost it in the first frost of that year.

[Guest]

we've just had our first bowl full of this years soft fruit! Yumptious

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2781887&l=6f8dc1cfd4&id=568396756

 

also got some alpine strawberry seedlings in the greenhouse but they won't be ready this year.

 

you can see our strawberry bed in this pic that the phtographer took from the local paper

 

http://3401.e-printphoto.co.uk/nqrw/index.cfm?z=z&y=y&p_id=11733075&c_id=30499&action=view

[Valkyrie]

Good grief - what whoppers you are going to be munching!

Now I'm dribbling.

[Guest]

this is what they looked like last year when we first put them in, we haven't done anything special to them, apart from a bit of weeding, we've just let them take over the bed...

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=545897&l=c9df8dda52&id=568396756

[Lesley]

Haven't they come on!

[Guest]

I know! Must be a good spot for them, plus the chicken poo Ian dug in before they were planted must have helped

[Willow]

Despite omlet netting and netting that raised bed one of our original omlet girls is sneaking into our strawberry bed and eating them

 

Hopefully by next year I'll have a secured them away better but I was having to persuade OH to justify a whole bed to one crop and she isn't making it easy !

[chickencam]

chicken poo the secret ingredient

[Guest]

you have try this, mmmmmmmmm!

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2829412&l=6637fafd70&id=568396756

[chickencam]

They look great.

 

My hubby made a strawberry, raspberry and redcurrant trifle with proper homemade jelly, it was delish

[Cinnamon]

OK, we have had a problem with the straw I put down

It looked lovely & did work at keeping them up off of the ground,but it seeded & thick long MASSIVE clumps of graww grew all over the strawberry patch.It took me 2 hours to weed it all out

 

I just bought normal rabbit hutch straw.

 

Has anyone tried Aubiose, as I am loath to put straw down again?

[Old Speckled Hen]

I grew my few, maybe 30, plants in strawberry pots with great success.

Having seen how the wild straws survive even the most vicious hedge strimming/cutting I am going to try mine vertically next year. I'm going to try to build a strawberry wall so that all the plants hang down. Mmmmmmmm will have to think about it but may well solve a lot of strawberry husbandry problems. Or maybe this is a stupid idea