TopVeg - growing veg,fruit&herbs » stawberry http://topveg.com growing veg, fruit and herbs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Elsanta Table Top Strawberries http://topveg.com/2009/06/elsanta-table-top-strawberries/ http://topveg.com/2009/06/elsanta-table-top-strawberries/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:37:45 +0000 TopVeg http://topveg.com/?p=2743 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> These Elsanta strawberries were planted on table tops last month just outside York.

table-top-Elsanta

table-top-Elsanta

The Elsanta strawberry plants are growing in special strawberry bags imported from Ireland.

A water pipe runs alongside the bags.  Water drips into the bags to keep them moist, but liquid fertiliser is added to the water to provide nutrients.

ELSANTA-TABLE-TOP

ELSANTA-TABLE-TOP

One of the advantages of table top strawberries is that the slugs cannot get to them to cause trouble.  But the deer have realised that another advantage of table top strawberries is that you do not have to bend down to pick them, and the deer like the variety Elsanta!

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