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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 12:31 pm Post subject: Strawberries????
The missus told me yesterday that Waitrose have stock of Herefordshire strawberries

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: shropshire

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 1:09 pm Post subject:
Isn't there a huge strawberry farm which grows under polythene in Herefordshire I remember reading something about Monty Don spearheading an anti campaign as the farm owner wanted to build a huge accommodation complex for his pickers

thos

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
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Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-�a)

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 2:19 pm Post subject:

Belgian Wepion strawberries have been in for about a month, but at this time of year they are extremely expensive (�3.95 for 500g)and tasteless (or at least they were two years ago when a neighbour put some in a fruit salad).

Two weeks ago the shop opposite had some Spanish jam strawberries that were lovely and fairly cheap to eat fresh as a treat - a 2Kg box for �4. However, they have now been replaced by 'First Quality' i.e. large and expensive ones, so we'll have to wait for ours.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 2:35 pm Post subject:

Yep, much of Herefordshire is under polythene to grow these soft fruits. Don lives up the road, and hates it. He complains it brings foreign workers in and makes the place look unpleasant. The big producer has built a 'temporary' small village of mobile homes to house these workers, who are mainly from Eastern Europe.

Planning for these seems to be OK, or at least they haven't been made to take them down. However, when they erected facilities to help them, such as a pool, doctor's, shower blocks, cinema and a day room type thing, they were forced to be taken down.

Almost none of the buildings can be seen from the surrounding roads and it provides a much needed boost to the rural economy here, *and* means we don't have to fly quite so many strawbs from Israel or Chile. Still, Monty doesn't like it.

Do we have a smiley for sticking two fingers up at NIMBY prats?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:01 pm Post subject:
Don't think we do. But, now that Monty Don's been mentioned, Bugs should be along to be rude about him if that helps.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:03 pm Post subject:
I think her venom is likely to be a good stand in.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:11 pm Post subject:
Maybe we should be a bit worried then - here's some before and after shots for Almeria in Southern Spain, near Motril. Beautiul coastline, completely covered for miles and miles and miles in white plastic greenhouses. The picture only shows a tiny part of it.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 06 3:15 pm Post subject:
If they can't use the land for agricultural purposes, they can go out of work, and destroy what's left of the local economy, and they can sell the land for housing and branches of Curry's.

mrutty

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1578

Posted: Mon May 22, 06 11:12 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Maybe we should be a bit worried then - here's some before and after shots for Almeria in Southern Spain, near Motril. Beautiul coastline, completely covered for miles and miles and miles in white plastic greenhouses. The picture only shows a tiny part of it.

See that's why you should buy Spainish Strawberries, we don't want tossers over here ruining our countryside.

Keep Britain Tidy - Leave all your crap in France!

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 10:49 am Post subject:
market here has spainish strawberries - �2 a box and some others than were dearer but can't remember how much. co-op has spainish strawberries in as well, I bought some reduced ones yesterday for the cheesecake I made my strawberry plants are starting to flower now

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:01 am Post subject:
Our greengrocer had two punnets of English strawberries for �1 on Saturday. They were OK, but not quite there yet - and nothing like warm, home-grown ones straight from the garden!

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:03 am Post subject:
Got little green protofruit on our plants. The strawberries at the market aren't calling out to me yet. When they smell good enough so they call you in to the stall, thats when you buy them!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:03 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

nothing like warm, home-grown ones straight from the garden!

Why do so many people insist on eating their fruit refrigerated? Never made sense to me.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:04 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Why do so many people insist on eating their fruit refrigerated? Never made sense to me.

Ditto tomatoes. They taste of nothing if refrigerated.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue May 23, 06 11:05 am Post subject:

cab wrote:

The strawberries at the market aren't calling out to me yet. When they smell good enough so they call you in to the stall, thats when you buy them!

These passed the smell test. Just lacking a bit in flavour.

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