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My elsanta strawberries are not very sweet

dogray

By Dogray

United Kingdom

I grow them in troughs in a greenhouse




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How much are you watering them? Like most fruit of this sort, including tomatoes, if you water them too much they lose all their sugar content and taste very bland. The trick is to keep them just moist enough not to wilt and die but not so wet as to lose the flavour.

17 May, 2009

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