Strawberries

[Katharine]

When I was a child (yes many many years ago!) I'm sure that it was easy to hull strawberries. You just twisted and pulled and the green bit and the bit inside the fruit came out. Now you can't do it like that.

Have the fruit changed or am I suffering from a memory lapse?

[lonelymom]

I don't remember being able to pull the inside of the strawberry out. But we are growing strawberries in our garden, and the green bit pulls off them much easier than the ones I've bought in the shops in the past (and they taste much nicer too!) I don't bother buying any strawberries unless they are grown in Kent - much nicer flavour than the rest (even if I do say so myself!)

[midget]

Probably a lot of the ones in the shops were picked before they were fully ripe. Lakeland sell (or sometimes give away) a little device which works better than my clumsy fingers, and which removes most of the greenery quite easily.

[englishangel]

Yes lonelymom, the last lot of strawberries I bought were Kent grown and de-hulled just as Katharine described, tjough it helps if you push, twist and pull.

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

I have found (being a miserly old S*d !)
that the strawberries I like best, come free in my Garden.
These are Wild Strawberries, courtesy of the birds which have dropped one or two, which have grown into a fair-sized clump.
Yes, they are tiny, but the taste is exquisite, and a small handful, sitting by the Pond, takes a lot to beat it !

[englishangel]

I have found (being a miserly old S*d !)
that the strawberries I like best, come free in my Garden.
These are Wild Strawberries, courtesy of the birds which have dropped one or two, which have grown into a fair-sized clump.
Yes, they are tiny, but the taste is exquisite, and a small handful, sitting by the Pond, takes a lot to beat it !

I have some of these too

[J.R.]

It can be a hull of a job at times !

[Angela Woodford]

I am growing strawberries in my new garden! It's very exciting. First thing every morning I rush out to see how they are doing.

They are a variety called "Irresistible" - which Thompson and Morgan assure me are "deliciously sweet and juicy... with a big easy to hold calyx.. often deemed too delicate for the supermarkets.... exceptional garden variety...". I am hoping that they can be easily hulled. They seem to be loving life in a raised bed; the soil enriched by the efforts of Sarah the donkey.

I can remember when strawberries weren't sold in punnets, but scooped up from a vast mountain in the Streatham Hill greengrocer's window - into a two-layered brown paper bag. Even so, the juice would drip out on the way home. Lovely.

Irresistible! Especially with Walls Vanilla Ice Cream which came in a cardboard-wrapped block.

[blondie95]

for two years i have tried strawberries, in my lovely strawberry plater-last years crop were few. The plants didnt survive the winter-bought new ones and they just shrivelled up and died, no matter how much sun, water they got?
But I do buy my strawberries from the farm shop down the road, they are literally grown out the back of my garden