Thursday, April 9, 2009

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Without care plant may be overgrown by larger plants or eaten up. In this location farmers use to actually flood the fields once or several times a week as shown here in the picture. The foam on the water is from chemicals added.
Plants are water sensitive during the final phase of strawberry growth before harvest. Hence the plants are elevated, the water flows lower and gets the roots wet while leaving the actual plant and berries dry.
In rainy season strawberries become soft and foul easily. Hence the extra effort to keep the water away and lower than the plants.
Wet plants also attract more snails - who feed on strawberries BECAUSE all other plants have been carefully removed.
Smart farmers offer other plants such as salad, vegetable, flowers, grass to snails to safeguard the strawberries !!
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands


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We got a silver-gilt medal which we are very pleased with, we're really pleased because it's our first Tatton. The judges did say that they'd like us to do a larger stand and that our plants would really suit a larger exhibit. One of the reasons why we create a display of this size is because it fills one lorry! We never know how the plants will go down when we come to a new show and especially one in a different climatic area, but so far so good. Next week we're going to the Taunton flower show where we're exhibiting our own plants and planting a garden, then Rob and I are off for three days to an undisclosed, secret location to reflect on the last few months and plan for the year ahead.
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