Fragaria x ananassa

Wow 😲 🍓😜

@gjones more on there now than all of last year 😂

@wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom hoping they don’t drown before I get to try them 😜

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@honestgreensco hardly a feast but a start anyway 😉😂

@kez001uk throw them in a salad 🥗 😉

@honestgreensco can’t say I’ve ever tried them in a salad but now I fancy adding them to a feta salad 🤤 sweet & salty 😋

@kez001uk I love them in fruit salads 😋

@honestgreensco I’d have given that a go but seems the birds wanted them more than me 😐

@kez001uk 😭 the birds are cruel i got a single pitaya fruit on my farm from all the newly planted ones and the crows ate it 😰 i was so sad lol but next year I’ll have thousands so oh well. Definitely buying a slingshot tho 🤔

@honestgreensco 😯 that’s just mean! Your single fruit and it took it ☹️ I’ve seen people on Instagram that put bags around their cherries to protect them but think maybe your pitaya are a little big for that 🤣got an image of Bart Simpson skateboarding around your cactuses with his catapult 🙈

I’m going to use clear netting when they fruit if it becomes an issue, I’ve used them successfully on date trees and they work well. Old white shirts also work pretty good lol 😂 lmao I have a friend who owns a farm not too far from me and he has a drone for the crowd, it scares them off. So slingshots and drones will be my go to 🤣🤷‍♂️

Still going 🍓

@gjones it’s a lone one but there were new flowers too so had I left it there may have been more soon 🤷🏻‍♀️

Incredible. You must have a balmy micro climate thing going on on your garden! 😀👌

@jeatacake my mum always said we are in a dip here so most of the extreme weather passes over us. How true that is I don’t know 😂

Certainly cold winds can miss you, but it could also be a frost pocket from decending cold air, although that doesn't seem to be happening much it seems so far this winter 👍