the tale of the strawberries

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July 21 2010

08:50

Once upon a time a princess planted 3 tiny strawberry plants in her garden.

carefully planted in the newly created bed

They began to grow. Then, despite being guarded by a beady eyed and brave fox, they were eaten down to the quick by saucy young rabbits who were very numerous throughout that kingdom. Over the summer one of the plants recovered and produced 2 strawberries

Many years later (well, 3), many self planted runners later, this is how they looked:

a wild and mysterious forest had grown up around the fox

Rosemary and lovage were shunted to the side, still doing well at the edge of the forest (one of those stray potatoes growing among them too). And what a royal harvest there was! Big bountiful bowls for all the family several times a week

with soya cream

with a cherry on top

a strawberry from this magical garden was even purple-ised and put on a t-shirt…

purple strawberry tank top

the frog prince

Frogbert called from beside the pond, “I’ve found the golden ball that you dropped in here some time ago!”, but nobody heard as they were all too busy with their strawberry obsession