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I really love strawberries, therefore my husband has grown them in the garden for several years. We have had some real bumper years, last year was really dreadful,as we had hardly any but this year is looking good so far.
We were given our plants by my dad from his allotment but then soon grow and spread. My husband is a keen gardener and as they started to show green strawberries on the plants, he puts nets over them to prevent the birds eating our crop. We always find that if you harvest regularly the crop seems to be bigger and a better quality strawberry, so we pick every day and if we go away during strawberry season we always tell family and friends to pop over and help themselves.
A good source of vitamin C (eight strawberries equivalent to an orange), as well as folate and potassium. Strawberries are also high in fibre and manganese. Also in the top 20 foods that are high in anti-oxidants. 236g of strawberries is 188KJ
The main reason for growing them is the cost saving, a punnet of strawberries averages around £2.50. Being a bit of a scrimper, when we aren't in season I really struggle to buy now as I begrudge paying for them!
When I hit abundance levels, as I am just starting to, they are a welcome gift when visiting friends and a treat for colleagues at work, taking a tub full whenever I can. All my children love strawberries are so eat in quite vast quantities, so I tend to leave a tub in the fridge freshly cut up and washed as then then help themselves when just home from school and in search of a snack.
My mum makes loads of jam from my dads allotment, I tend to freeze loads and then boil them with a bit of sugar to make a nice pudding later in the year when they have stopped growing. The children like to blend with milk, banana and a little ice cream to make smoothies. I take them to work and pour low fat yogurt over them as a sweet treat. When having a friends night, a fave pudding is strawberries, meringue, ice cream and a blob of cream.
I love strawberries so its a 5 Doo Yoo from me.
On my recent health kick I have been eating loads of fresh fruit and vegetables. I also watched a very interesting program about strawberries confirming why I love them so much.
The freshest way to get strawberries is to grow them yourself, its pretty simple to do. You can buy the seeds cheaply, and you then need somewhere where the plants wont be eaten by grubs, and they get enough water and sunlight. I have previously tried but dont have a garden at the moment. It has a short six week season and thats why you cant always buy them in markets all year round. On the programme I watched the supermarkets use large plastic tunnels to grow them for longer months.
I have also made my own jam from my mums supply of home grown strawberries, it is a lot nicer than shop bought!
I now buy strawberries from the market or pick your own if I see a farm offering this.
They taste great on their own as a picnic snack, or with cream for indulgence. I never need to put sugar on them though some people do. You can also combine them with meringue for eton mess, or blend them with other berries for a really tasty smoothie. When Im not on a diet they also taste really lovely with melted chocolate.
If you eat them in a pudding make sure to cut off the green stalk and slice out the white middle section as this is not as nice as the rest of the fruit.
Apparently british grown strawberries are better as our climate is perfect for soft fruit. So buy british whenever you can. From tescos a box costs around £2-3 depending on the time of year.
I absolutely love strawberries, they are my favourite fruit and I love to enjoy them in many different ways. Years ago, when I was 2 (yes, this is one of those old family stories that is told at every reunion) I went to a luncheon with my mum and about 10 other women in my family. They all gave me their strawberries because I was little and cute and they knew I liked them and it was only later than someone found out that they had actually been soaked in vodka, no wonder I was so full of energy that afternoon!!
According to an article I read, "Fragaria × ananassa, commonly known as strawberry or garden strawberry, is a hybrid species that is cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The fruit (which is not a botanical berry, but an aggregate accessory fruit) is widely appreciated for its characteristic aroma, bright red color, juicy texture, and sweetness. It is consumed in large quantities, either fresh or in prepared foods such as preserves, fruit juice, pies, ice creams, milkshakes, and chocolates. Artificial strawberry aroma is also widely used in many industrialized food products. The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s via a cross of Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America and Fragaria chiloensis, which was brought from Chile by Amédée-François Frézier in 1714."
Strawberries are actually a very easy fruit to grow and one I have grown in my garden for a few years now although I probably don't do it properly and could grow them a lot better. This year I have just one plant which is really my three year old daughter plant and we are having fun watching it grow. She is marvelling in the fact that the strawberries start out as little flowers then turn from green to red and then we can pick them when they are ready.
All you really need to do is put the strawberry plant in some soil and make sure it gets lots of water and not too much sun and it will really grow. They flower in June to July so we had to wait a few weeks as I think we bought this plant back in April/May time. I have mine in a small pot but it's really better to get a proper strawberry planter with lots of different holes in it and I would also recommend that you keep the plant up from the ground as the slugs really like this fruit. Sometimes I see a slime trail on my strawberries if it gets too near to the ground and lots of little bites which is rather annoying.
Strawberries can be enjoyed in so many different ways. They are perfect just on their own in a fruit salad or with some cream during Wimbledon. I love to put one in my glass of champagne for me and my friends when I am entertaining as not only does it look good but it also brings out the flavour of the champagne too which is lovely. They are also great for cooking with and I love to put them in a crumble with some apples and raspberries.
All in all a beautiful fruit that I love to eat.
I have 2 varieties of strawberry currently growing in my garden, a smaller but sweeter alpine variety (which I had to buy the seeds, which I got all in all in a kit for 99p from 99p store).
The other variety is the more "common" strawberry you can get in the shops. I got the seeds by picking the seeds off the side of a strawberry before eating it, and planting them. it was more of an experiment but those strawberries have taken over!
So, why are strawberries so easy to grow. Well first off, they grow quite well in the local climate (I live in UK), and they are not massive ambitious plants like tomatoes. Secondly they can live in a variety of soils from clay to compost (I live in a clay area, so this is really handy for me). Thirdly they do not require massive amounts of de-weeding, because strawberry plants can grow runners, which then develop into new strawberry plants, so they kind of end up taking over a small area of the garden.
Some tips I have learnt along the way for strawberry growing:
Step 1: Grow seeds indoors in a propogator. If you don't have one of these, just place the seeds in a pot with compost, plant, water, then cover the top with some see through cling film. Once the plants start growing, remove the cling film, and once they are getting big enough to transfer outside, do so (when the weather is good).
Step 2: Make a mesh or box or something to keep out squirrels, birds, chickens, ferrel children etc from eating all your delicious strawberries.
Step 3: (I don't personally do this step as I feel its a bit of a faff, but you are supposed to do this) place straw down once the strawberries are beginning to develop, in order to keep them off the soil, this is meant to give the best strawberries.
Step 4: Do your best to kill/stop slugs. They can just eat little bites out of one or two strawberries.
Step 5: Pick the strawberries by cutting them from the green bit of the stalk, this keeps them fresher for longer.
Step 6: Time to eat!!!
I really recommend strawberries to anyone living in the UK, they are cheap, easy, and fun, and I think the plants don't look all that bad! Seeing the little runners running up and down the garden and the white strawberry flowers grow, and redden is really quite good looking. Although they prefer direct sunlight, they do not need it to thrive.
Any questions, please ask below (bear in mind I am not an expert)
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Many years ago when I was a child, we spent a lot of time with my mam's Aunty Edna and Uncle Charlie. In the summer we would often take off to a pick your own strawberry field to fill our boots (and mouths) with delicious strawberries. Aunty Edna was a larger than life character prone to silly acts at random times. I can vividly remember her all of a sudden standing up in the middle of the strawberry field, bellowing at the top of her voice..."STRAWBERRIES................RIPE STRAWBERRIES!!" Then bending back down to carry on picking whilst strangers looked aghast at who was being so loud and me and our family creased up with laughter. Sadly, Uncle Charlie passed away many years ago and Aunty Edna, although retaining her caustic sense of humour, is crippled up with arthritis bless her.
So began my love of strawberries and little was I to know that I would eventually be growing my own on my own little plot of land!
~~Starting off~~
When I first got my allotment in 2006, my handy husband built me a bed with wood that was lying around the plot and after doing a bit of reading up, I sent for 12 strawberry plants from Thompson & Morgan and planted them out with plenty of space between them. To be honest, I cant remember what variety the plants were, but I duly left them to do their thing for the first year, picking off the flowers like it said in my book and just giving them plenty of water. They produced a few strawberries but nothing much to write home about.
The following year.......Oh my word!! From early June onwards to about late July, early August we were inundated with strawberries and the taste........so sweet and succulent. Yummy. To be honest, I try not to buy strawberries out of the shops anymore as the taste is just not comparable.
~~Care of plants~~
The books tell you about removing all dead leaves down to the crown when they have finished fruiting and how you can feed them with a high potassium feed such as tomato feed but I have to admit, I leave them to their own devices and have had brilliant results every year. The only thing I will do is cover with a fine net once fruit appears to deter birds from nibbling your fruit and sometimes I will put a layer of straw down so the fruit doesn't come into contact with the ground.
~~Future Crops~~
Now this is my favourite bit..... Plants only have a lifespan of 3/4 years and then the productivity drops so you need to think about replacing your plants. This could be costly but nooooo...Just after fruiting, each plant sends out runners (baby plants) which you can either plant into the soil in the same bed or, as I do, put a little compost in a small pot and pin the runner down with a wire or plastic pin. Keep well watered and after about four weeks you can detach from the mother plant and hey presto! You have a new plant! I do enough of these to make a new bed either every year or every other year. Sometimes I have had too many and passed them on to other plot holder's. If you are lucky you may get something edible in return!
A couple of years ago I thought I would try a little experiment to prolong the season a little. I put some of my baby plants in a big pot and kept in the greenhouse ensuring they were well watered. Again, the first year was disappointing but following years, I have had strawberries a few weeks earlier than the the ones in the open ground so I am planning to increase the greenhouse ones this year with my free plants!
~~Types of strawberries~~
There are many different types of strawberry plant and if you plan it well, you should be able to be picking your own right through the season. There are early seasons such as 'Christine' or Honeyoye' fruiting in June/ July. 'Elegance' is a mid season plant but for a good all rounder, an 'Everbearer /all season might be a good starter plant. 'Flamenco' sounds a good one according to the Thompson & Morgan site and it says it can fruit from May to November! Might have to order a few of these myself as although I get a good crop around June and July, my season then stops. Would be brilliant to be still picking in September! That's the beauty of growing your own, you are always learning and its trial and error.
You don't have to stick to the methods I have described above for growing strawberries, you can put them in a hanging basket, and suitable garden pot and you can buy special strawberry pots with little spaces for plants around the pot. We did this one year without much success so it is used now for flowers.
~~What to do with your tons of Strawberries?~~
Eat them of course! On their own, with sugar spinkled on, with icecream, on porridge, or other cereals or make a dessert with them. A lot of people make Jam but I have never attempted this. I'm also tempted to have a go at homemade strawberry wine. Quite often I will have a go at making a pavlova and then serve the meringue base with whipped cream, strawberries and almods on the top. Delish!!
Sometimes the meringue doesn't quite work for some reason and we just smash it all up, add whipped cream, strawberries and ice-cream and put it in fancy ice-cream glasses. Eton Mess!! Divine! I'm salivating now, thinking about it!
Failing all those ideas, give some away to family and friends. They won't be disappointed!
You will pay about £15.00 for 12 plants from Thompson & Morgan at the moment but look at car boots or markets. They can be picked up for a fraction of the price!
You don't need tons of space to grow strawberries and they are worth growing as its a good crop for your initial outlay and taste marvelous! I get such satisfaction from going and picking my own when you know that the public pay such extortionate prices at Wimbledon!
Go on......get some plants and have a go! Next year you could be sat in front of the telly listening to the grunts and groans of the top tennis players, stuffing your face with home-grown strawberries and cream! Yum!
I grow strawberries every year and my patch seems to better bigger and better each year too. I originally bought some cheap plants that were reduced down to 30p each from my local garden centre and I didn't really think I would get much from them. I was lucky because I had a load of compost left over from my compost bin. I planted them in a mix of soil and compost and put them into a raised bed in a sunny spot in the garden. I didn't really water them apart from on really dry spells and I soon was rewarded with new fresh green leaves appearing in the centre.
I have a good few strawberries last year and often sent my daughter with them for packed lunch as they were so much tastier and better than the horrible ones in the supermarket that have lost their flavour by being flown thousands of miles. The winter came and thought that would be that.
This year though the shoots have grounded into the nearby soil and the patch has grown by another third, the original ones I planted went very brown during the frost but I am pleased to say they are starting to get new green shoots and even more flowers than last year.
I am looking for different unusual varieties this year as I have enjoyed the rewards so much and I can't wait for harvest time again.
These are ideal for the beginner gardener as they are so easy to look after and they will keep giving year after year without the hassle of replanting. I would recommend anyone with a small space to give these a go as they can be grown in a small window box or even a hanging basket and the rewards are definitely worth the small amount of effort needed.
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Strawberries are very easy to grow, they will quite happily grow in most soils, can survive extreme wet and high temperatures and are generally happy to be left to grow producing there wonderfully attractive bright red, succulent, juicy, sweet fruits. Here is how I grow mine. I bought a few plants from the garden centre and put them in hanging baskets with a good quality soil, I water them when its dry and pinch off any bits that look a bit yellow or tired and they seem happy enough. The hanging baskets are located in full sun most of the day, with shade as the sun sets, they are also in a an area that does not get much wind, but that is more to do with the fact that I did not want the hanging baskets to be bashed around. Long tendrils of the strawberry plant are currently trying to find a place to bed, so I will be moving them shortly on to my new veg patch to allow them to keep growing and produce more plants. I have successfully moved strawberry plants before and still had a good crop. My general approach to gardening, particularly when growing vegetables and herbs is that I plant what I love to eat, make sure it has food and water and let nature take care of the rest, others plan, like some of my friends, but I find I get good results, have limited issues with plant pests or disease and generally have fun, which is what its all about really.
I also tend to move the crop around, they last around three years, and the next crop I will plant elsewhere, to give the land a bit of a rest from strawberry, allow something else to grow there and generally make the veg patch look different year on year.
The hanging baskets are currently outside my back door so when I come home with my son we can see them enticing us to eat them, which we do, simply picked and washed in a bit of water. That is how I like to eat my strawberries, sometimes with a bit of ice cream, but mainly as nature intended.
The only issue I do have with strawberry growing is that birds love them too, I do not have an issue with slugs, but the birds will have a peck and I find this frustrating but they look so nice I can see why they are tempted.
Overall, strawberries are easy to grow, look good and the fruits taste great, I would highly recommend growing your own.
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I blame the time of year for this review - there's not much growing in the garden, and most of the fresh fruit and veg in the supermarkets has been flown thousands of miles from warmer climes and doesn't taste of anything much. One of the worst things to buy out of season are strawberries - Egyptian, Tunisian and Spanish imports in the middle of an English winter are like having a Christmas dinner in July. It shouldn't be done in my opinion, English grown strawberries picked in season are unbeatable for taste and are a luxury that are worth waiting for.
Luxuries don't have to be inaccessible to the common man though; I grow my own "strawbz" (Latin = Fragaria ananassa) for next to no cost and reap the rewards every June and July by being able to step 10 feet away from my back door and pick and eat whatever delicious strawberries my daughters haven't already ravished. As spring is only weeks away, my thoughts are once more turning to filling my back yard with as much fruit and veg as possible, and strawberries are high up on my "must grow to eat" list. They are pretty easy to grow, and hopefully this review will inspire you to grow some for yourself.
It is thought that strawberries have been growing in England since the last ice age, although these were the wild woodland form, smaller than the cultivated types we know and love today. I grow two main types in my back yard, bog standard cultivated varieties like Cambridge Favourite and Honeoye and the smaller, wilder, intense alpine strawberries. The Cambridge Favourites and Honeoyes get mostly used for jams and cooking, and the alpine strawberries are used as a "pick your own" treat whenever we're outside as a family doing the gardening or the girls are playing out.
There are many farms in the UK that offer a "pick your own" service; there's one near me and I've been going for more than 25 years to the same place and now feel sentimental about the fact that every summer I can now take my own children to enjoy picking strawberries, wade through mud and avoid slugs, just as I was taken by my parents as a five year old. If you do take your children strawberry picking, top tip - take a pack of baby wipes with you to remove the guilty tell tale signs of red mouths and fingers (before you pay and leave) that betray the fact your kids have been helping themselves on the way round!
I strongly recommend to you to take the opportunity to spend an hour one sunny day this year to go and pick your own, rather than buying them from a supermarket. You'll be supporting your local farmers and also you'll benefit from discovering the difference in taste - it'll knock your socks off.
Growing your own
They can be grown from seed, but for a quicker fix, I'd suggest buying a few second year plug plants and planting them directly out in your garden - you don't need a garden the size of the Eden Project bio-domes, I grow strawberries in an old shoe basket, plastic storage boxes and hanging baskets that I found behind our garage when we bought the house.
You may be thinking "what does second year mean?". In the first year of it's growth, a strawberry plant won't produce many flowers (the flowers turn into strawberries) and any that do appear should be picked off to allow the plant to become stronger and healthier. However, in the plant's second and third years, you will have a nice healthy plant that produces a heavy crop of mother nature's sweets, the strawberry. Strawberry plants tend to reduce their crop yield after about three years, so I don't keep any plants that are more than three years old.
This may sound expensive, having to buy a new collection of strawberry plants every three years. YOU DON'T HAVE TO!! After you've initially bought your plants, they will send out "runners" during the growing season, which, if pegged on to the soil (use a twig or wooden clothes peg either side of where the small new leaves grow off the stalk of the runner) will develop their own root system after about a month and can then be cut off from the mother plant and replanted elsewhere. A continual supply of plants for free! You'll save a fortune this way rather than buying a handful of watery, tasteless strawberries in a plastic box or buying new plants every time you fancy some.
They are best kept in soil rich with compost and with good drainage in a sunny position - the more sun they get, the more fruit they will bear. It's important that the strawberry plants are well drained, the rot quite easily if in boggy conditions. Slugs and birds love strawberries too, so you can protect them with netting and the odd strategically placed beer trap. Plants in hanging baskets will confound the slugs, but not the birds so use a net or make a bird scarer out of old CDs hanging on a piece of string nearby.
If you don't know, a beer trap is the nemesis of slugs. Fill a large saucer with lager and push down into the soil so that the lip of the saucer is level with the soil, leave this over night and the next morning you will see some very happy slugs in the saucer. These can be fed to chickens and birds, or re-housed, hopefully a long way away from your precious plants. I wouldn't recommend you go all "Hugh kills-and-eats-it-all" and make slug fritters though, what's the point?
At the end of the growing season, I snip off any dead leaves to expose the crown of the plant to the last of the year's full sun - this will help the plant keep a store of energy as it lies dormant over winter. During the winter I cover the plants with crumpled newspaper, bubble wrap or an agricultural fleece if really cold conditions are forecast, but in normal winter conditions my plants survive quite well without the need for pampering.
The fun part - eating them
Best served straight after picking - straight in the mouth or with cream/sugar. If you are looking to make them last a bit longer, making them into jam is an excellent way of preserving strawberries. Here's how I do it:
Wash and hull your strawbz, weigh and place into a heavy duty pan. Use a potato masher to lightly mush them up a bit and release the juice. If you want smaller bits of the fruit in your jam, chop them in half instead of mashing as whole fruits. Add to this two-thirds of the strawberries' weight of jam sugar - it has to be jam sugar as this contains pectin which will make your strawberries set. Strawberries are low in pectin, so unless you add it you'll just have a runny mess. You can use normal sugar and instead supply the pectin from apple peels, but this is fiddly and you'll be left with a load of peeled apples. A couple of table spoons of lemon juice will provide a good preservative in the form of citric acid and help your jam last longer. Then, put onto a high heat and wait till the mixture starts to bubble. Scrape off the floating scum, then turn down and allow to bubble away slowly for a good three quarters of an hour.
Get your jars ready by washing and sterilising them (you can use a dishwasher to sterilise or put them in a low oven for ten minutes immediately prior to filling them up with the jam) and when the jam is ready, pour it in carefully - it'll be nuclear hot. When the jam is right up to the top, screw the lid on straight away and allow to cool. If you're using those lids with the poppy up and down button thing in the middle, keep pressing the button down until it no longer springs back up. That's how I do it, and my jam lasts for about a year in a dark cupboard (unopened) and about a month in the fridge (when opened), and I haven't been killed off by botulism or any other nasty diseases.
For safety's sake though, don't attempt any type of bottling / jam making without reading up on the safety aspects first, please don't just follow my advice blindly.
With my alpine strawberries, I don't have enough to make jam with, so I've put a "free for all" order on them in our garden - my daughters can help themselves to any that they see. They're a lot smaller than cultivated strawberries, about the size of a pea, but the strawberry taste is highly concentrated in these mini treats and are a delicacy. You can preserve them by drying, but unless you have a fit for purpose food dehydrator, why bother with all that fiddling around on radiators and wire racks when you can just accept them as a rare treat from Mother Nature and enjoy them straight from the bush.
Strawberries contain a decent amount of vitamin C and antioxidants, not that you'd need an excuse to eat them, just be careful how much cream or sugar you have them with!
One of nature's gifts to us, strawberries are very tasty, loved by all and easy to grow yourself. The taste of an English summer in a juicy red fruit.
Strawberries are very easy and very rewarding to grow, and with just a few plants, within a year or two you will have a whole bed of plants. You can grow strawberries from seed, but I have always found it easier to do from plug plants. For your first year just buy 6-8 plants and pop them in the ground about 15 cm apart (they can also be grown in pots, but this will limit their size, and they will need much more watering and regular feeding). Once the plants are well established they will put out runnners, which can be pegged down, and will then grow into their own plants. This process can be repeated and before you know if you will have a whole bed of productive plants. From about May onwards you will need to put straw under the plants (the leaves and the developing fruit). This should stop the fruit resting on the ground, and apparently can discourage slugs and snails.
Strawberry plants are quite fun to have as a novelty in the garden, but they take up relatively much space and grown outdoors, have a fairly short fruiting season, so although they might grow enough strawberries to have several helpings through the summer, it's unlikely that a person would end up being 'self-sufficient' in home-grown fruit.
Strawberry plants are low-growing and leafy, each plant standing less than a foot high. The foliage is quite dark green, with toothed leaves bearing deep grooves on the surface that are surprisingly rough to the touch. While strawberries aren't the type of plant that produces irritant hairs that stick to your skin, although there are people who are allergic to eating strawberries, and I suspect that if such sensitized people came into contact with the leaves they would also suffer an adverse reaction. The plants stop growing in winter, and there is some die-back of the leaves, but in general they seem to be frost-tolerant. The plants readily self-propagating by means of long, arching runners that grow out from the parent plants, which means that once established, a single strawberry will set about establishing itself at the centre of a ever-spreading-outwards strawberry bed, for at the end of each runner is a miniature strawberry plant complete with embryonic root system, just waiting to come into contact with moist soil to begin rooting as a new plant that will, eventually detach from the original and grow alongside.
Strawberries, being members of the rose family produce distinctive five-petalled 'rose-family' type flowers, white petalled with a yellow cone-shaped centre shaped like a miniature strawberry. In cultivated strawberries the flowers are fairly abundant and though attractive, especially against the green of the foliage, they are short-lived and the plant doesn't tend to be grow as an ornamental. From the centre of the flower arises the so-called berry - actually what's known as a 'drupe' in botanical terms, as the fleshy strawberry part everyone likes to eat isn't, technically a fruit. Cultivated strawberries at least are slightly unusual in that flowers continue to be produced while earlier fruits grow larger and ripen, which means that on any given plant in summer, there will flowers, green fruit and red ripe strawberries all at the same time.
The plants can be grown directly in fertile ground or, notionally, in upright ceramic 'strawberry planters' - although it has to be said that these planters tend to be more useful aesthetically than in terms of the fruit they produce. Strawberries need to be grown in moist, heavy soil for the fruit to develop well (it it's too dry, the leaves will grow happily but there will be little return of fruit) and in these terracotta 'strawberry towers' it's difficult to water the plants properly.
While the foliage part of the plant tends to be generally trouble-free, slugs, snails, garden birds and other wildlife, including hedgehogs, badgers and even foxes all like to eat the fruit. And of course, if they come into contact with bare soil, the extremely juicy, soft fruit are in danger of beginning to decay: in large strawberry-growing operations it's usually to spread dry straw round the base of the plants to prevent this (hence the plant's common name). Commercial strawberry growers are increasingly moving towards cultivating the fruit in grow-bag type arrangements, often elevated up to human waist-height and with drip-feed irrigation pipes, to make harvesting more easy; picking strawberries grown in the ground requires a lot of hunkering down to soil-level which can do peoples' backs in....
The earliest outdoor-grown strawberries in Britain tend to be ready around midsummer in a good year; if the weather's been too wet or there hasn't been enough sun, the berries often don't ripen till after the end of June. July and August are good strawberry-picking months, though by mid to the end of August the fruit supply is generally in decline. (Of course, at pick-your-own places, the management have all sorts of techniques for artificially extending the fruiting season).
Strawberries are easy to grow, individual potted plants are inexpensive (perhaps one or two quid from a garden centre) and it's fun to have some in the garden. You might even get a few ripe strawberries to eat as an added bonus, too!
Ever since I was young, I always enjoyed the strawberry season in England, and would long for the days that I could go strawberry picking with my Mum and Dad.
The strawberry season in England usually starts in early June, and it is usually about this time, I keep an eye on the local farm, who offers a pick your own service. As a family we love going to the farm and picking our own strawberries (eating lots on the way too) and then weighing them in at the end.
I'm sure the farmer must allow for pickers to eat them on their way around, as the price is slightly more than the supermarkets, and most people to pick them. The fact the youngsters walk out with strawberry juice all over their Tshirts must be a big give away too.
As a family we also grow our own strawberries but have not got enough room, to grow the amount we consume as a family of five. The family love to eat them with cream, scones and mixed with other fruit. I also encourage the children to have them with their breakfast, and on the odd occasion have also made jam.
Another favourite with the kids is making smoothies with them. They add other fruits too, and I get great satisfaction that they are getting some of their five a day.
Believe it or not, the strawberry plant has only been in the UK since the 1700's. It soon became very popular, and as it adapts very easily to our climate, and also spreads very easily, there soon became a large number of plants. This year the UK will produce approx 100,000 tonnes of the fruit.
Few may realise (or want to know) that the strawberry itself is actually part of the plants ovaries. I'd certainly not realised until I read it on the internet.
So is it good for us. Well in short yes. Unless of course you are eating them with lashings of cream or as jam, with spoonfuls of sugar. The vitamins within the fruit include A,B and C. Add to this Iron, Calcium and Proteins, and you can see how these can be beneficial to your health. In order to get the full benefits, they should be eaten without any additives.
The strawberry itself is reliant on the amount of rain and sunshine it receives. The larger and riper the strawberry the better the conditions it has been grown. In the event of little sun, the strawberry yield will be low, and the likelihood is that the strawberries will be small. They also thrive in warm air, and this is why many farmers have them in tunnels, or greenhouses.
I really do enjoy strawberries and although our season in England, is short lived, it is now common for supermarkets to fly them in from all over the world. Obviously this puts the price up, however it does mean that they have strawberries for sale most of the year round.
Thanks for reading and I hope this has given you a bit of information, that perhaps you didn't know previously.
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Gardening never used to interest me at all, but as I am getting older, I find myself with an uncontrollable urge to grow things. Few things match the pleasure of walking out into the garden and picking your own produce that you have created, and when you match this with one of the tastiest fruits around, the pleasure is immeasurable! The tale of my plants started three years ago.
We have a south facing long, narrow garden, and up until a few years ago it was mainly lawn for the sake of the children. My initial intention was to grow strawberries in hanging baskets; firstly so that we could keep as much grass as possible free for football, paddling pools etc...And secondly because we have our very own garden pest. Our pet rabbit runs freely around the whole garden as it is completely enclosed with no chance of escape, and he obviously likes to munch on anything that I attempt to grow.
I went to my local garden centre at the beginning of summer and purchased four strawberry plants, four hanging baskets, four brackets and a bag of compost- the whole lot coming to around £30. At this point I realised that these four plants were going to have to produce a lot of strawberries to make my new project economical!
I planted up my baskets and waited for the fruit to grow. A month later, there was no sign of fruit, but all of the plants had bushed out completely filling the baskets. They also all had a lot of shoots coming off them which were about to grow into new baby plants, so I decided that the time had come for me to dig a bed so that these plants could flourish. I dug out a bed along the fence, about eighteen inches wide, and around four foot long and carefully transplanted the plants into the soil. I also had to purchase some netting to protect them from the rabbit - this set me back another fiver! Luckily we had some wire hanging about so I made my own tunnel and once again waited for some fruit. Still nothing and summer was practically over, but I did have a lot of baby plants that were well established so I made the bed a bit longer and planted them out.
Over winter I replaced the netting with wadding to protect the plants from the frost, and come spring I was delighted to see that they were still thriving. The babies were having babies so I planted them out, and I had so many that I put some into pots and sold them at a boot sale recouping £15. Flowers developed and finally fruit started to grow. That second summer I had about twenty strawberries- hardly a bumper crop, but I was pleased. More babies were developing nicely, and by the end of that summer my bed along the fence was thirty foot long!
This summer we have had masses of strawberries and all of my hard work and nurturing has finally paid off! I have not had to buy fruit for lunchboxes all summer, and the feeling of satisfaction sending my sons off to school with my strawberries has been immense! I have had about fifty new babies that I planted into pots, and again I have sold them at a boot sale so I've got my initial investment back several times over. The fruit has all gone now, but babies are still growing and I'm still potting them up.
This whole process has been time consuming, but the effort has definitely been worth it, and I can't wait until next spring when it starts all over again and all the better if I can make some more money out of it. I am a complete novice gardener and I didn't have a clue what I was doing, so if I can do this, anyone can, even if you only have a small window box. Strawberry plants really are the plants that keep on giving, so I would recommend them as a starting point to any new gardener.
Strawberrys you can't beat them, they are so juicy and lovely and fresh. I love plain strawberry's and cream but you can also pop them on top of merrange nests or shortbread. They are also lovely in a flan with strawberry jelly.
Homemade strawberry milkshake or smoothies are lovely, I've also made ice lollies with strawberry milkshake.
The best way is fresh, I have a few plants they are so easy to keep, buy a summer fruiting variety - Cambridge favourite is a good one. Choose a nice sunny spot and plant them out, you'll probably need a good 10 plants to get a nice crop.
At the beginning of the season around May time, start putting straw all round and gently underneath the plants so that the strawberry's rest on the straw - it stops them getting all soggy when it rains and also I don't think as many slugs get to them. At first when the strawberry's come through they are green, at this point get some netting and cover them so that the birds can't get to them - we're not the only ones who like strawberry's!!
it's as simple as that, then go out every few days and pick your strawberry's they keep in the fridge so sometimes I pick them one day and add to them and eat them all the next day.
My mum grew strawberry's when I was little I can remember us going out together to pick strawberry's and now I do it with my girls, it really helps children know where their food comes from and they're such easy plants to look after.
They need no looking after in the winter, once you've had the last of your strawberry's remove the straw and look for any suckers coming off the plants (long stems with a little plant along it) those suckers can be planted into pots or put straight into the ground where you want them and become more strawberry plants.
The first year you won't have many strawberry's because they take a year to get established but roll on next year when you'll have a feast!
I don't use any sprays on mine, some do get eaten but one for them and one for me is my philosophy, I'd rather mine not be covered in sprays!! slug pellets round about will help with the slug problem as they are the biggest pest.
For me, Strawberries and summer go together. I think they are by far the loveliest of all the summer fruits and I know I am not alone in my appreciation of these delicious heart shaped berries! Strawberries have been around since the ice age. The Romans cultivated Strawberries, believing that they had healing properties and could help cure depression, infections and fevers. During medieval times the strawberry was used as a symbol of purity, love and passion, no doubt due to its heart shape. Stonemasons of the time often carved strawberry designs in churches and these can still be seen to-day. Strawberry soup was sometimes served to a newly married couple as part of the wedding feast and a strawberry birth mark was considered a sign of royalty.
Centuries later in the court of Napoleon it is documented that a prominent figure used to bathe in strawberry juice, believing it would protect her from disease. Although I wouldn't suggest bathing in strawberry juice, eating strawberries is proven to give many health benefits.
Strawberries are rich in vitamin C as well as magnesium. In fact eating just 8 strawberries will give you as much vitamin C as eating an orange. Strawberries are a low calorie food too, unless of course you cover them in sugar! Eating lots of different fruits has now been proven to help protect us from cancer and heart disease.
Growing strawberries.
Although strawberries are available in supermarkets all year, I would never consider buying anything other than British Strawberries. The flavour of strawberries imported is just not the same as home grown varieties. However best of all for taste has to be the strawberries you grow yourself. Strawberries are easy to grow and produce great results.
There are over 600 different varieties of strawberries, a figure I found surprising! However a trip to your local nursery will probably give you just a few varieties to chose from. I like to grow a variety called Flamenco. This variety is more disease resistant than many other varieties and has a long fruit producing season. Strawberry plants are not very expensive costing around £1-2 per plant.
Before you plant your strawberry plants you will need to decide where to put them. This may seem obvious, but it is important. Strawberries like to grow in well drained soil where they will get lots of sun. They also need to be protected from wind as they need insects to pollinate the plants and wind will keep insects away. I grow my strawberries in a slightly raised bed that gets full sun.
About a month before planting you will need to dig the soil well, removing any stones. I suggest you dig in lots of organic matter. I started of with about 12 strawberry plants. Each plant should produce around 10 oz of fruit and will spread to approximately 9 inches and grow to about 8 inches in height. I should also mention that you should avoid planting strawberries in the same bed as potatoes. peppers or tomatoes. This is because these plants can have a disease that is deadly to strawberry plants.
Strawberry plants can be planted in either late September of early April depending on the variety you have chosen. I planted in late April to avoid any danger of frost. Strawberries will need protecting from frost when they are newly planted. Once established they are pretty hardy and frost will do no harm unless they have fruit!
Strawberry plants need to be kept well watered but don't overdo it! White flowers appear in early spring and the plants should then be protected from any late frosts. As soon as the fruit starts to appear you will need to protect it from birds. I use a simple net with pegs. I also use straw from my local pet shop to lay around by plants to help stop the fruit from rotting. Any runners you see should be removed as leaving them will take strength from the parent plant. The fruit producing season will vary but I usually get fruit for around 6 weeks.
Strawberries can also be grown in containers. They will need to be kept well watered and grown in a sheltered spot in the same way as I have described above. Home grown strawberries really do taste and smell a million times better than any you will buy from a supermarket!
If you can't grow your own then I suggest you buy from a local farm or better still pick your own! Be aware that these strawberries may have been sprayed with a variety of chemicals so don't munch then until they have been well washed!
Using strawberries.
I love to eat strawberries just as they are-no sugar or cream. Strawberries should be washed before the stalk is removed and they will need to be handled carefully to prevent bruising. Strawberries should be bought to room temperature before eating to give the best flavour. Strawberries can be added to cereal or yogurts at breakfast or made into a delicious smoothie. I like to make smoothies for my children. For a strawberry smoothie I use about 2 cups full of orange juice and a few god handfuls of strawberries. Then simply blitz the liquid in a blender. You can add a spoonful of yogurt if you want a thicker smoothie.
I often make a small plastic tub of fruit as part of my children's packed lunch. Sliced strawberries give colour and there sweet taste is a real hit! I sometimes ad sliced strawberries to a green salad and then dress with a little balsamic vinegar-try it really is delicious! One of my favourite puddings has to be Eton mess. It is easy to make and tastes wonderful. I like to make individual portions in a wine glass, to make enough for 4 people you will need-
4 meringues nests.
4 good handfuls of strawberries.
½ tub of either double cream or low fat fromage frais.
Crush up the meringues in a bowl .Blitz a handful of strawberries in a blender until you have a puree. Slice up the whole strawberries. Now layer the meringue, strawberry puree and cream or fromage frais into the glasses. I don't add any sugar but if you like your puddings sweet then you can do so! This is a great pudding to serve at barbeques.
I don't think strawberries freeze well as they tend to go mushy when they are defrosted. However you can make a puree and freeze that instead. Strawberries don't keep for long and really are best eaten fresh. If you are lucky enough to have a glut then you could always make jam. Remember that strawberries don't have a lot of pectin so you will need to ad lemon juice to ensure your jam sets.
I really recommend you have a go at growing your own strawberries, they are easy to grow and will more reward you well for your efforts! Failing that then try to buy from local farms where you know the strawberries will be local and fresh!
We first bought the basics range from Sainsburys a couple of months ago, and one of the first things we bought was their strawberries at £1 per punnet - what a bargain we thought.
For about 4 weeks we bought them everytime we went shopping there, as they were ok and did have some taste. Recently, as the price of british ones went down, so did our interest in this particular product. There is absolutely no comparison with the british ones that are currently selling at around £2, and the size of the punnet is pretty small.
If you haven't had a strawberry for quite a while I guess they do make you miss the proper ones. Most strawberries these days come from Spain, but you have to admit british ones look and taste better. The one thing we did notice is that the basics ones tend to be quite hard, tastless and as an added problem it takes a long time to find a punnet thats in good enough condition to buy - often there are mouldy ones or they look like they've been sweating on the shelves for days.
Of the basics range this is one item that I would not recommend. They certainly aren't very good with cream, but I guess if they were put in a pie or something they'll probably be okay. Anyway for the time being we're going one better by growing our own.


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Army Private First Class Zachary Dodson gets emotional when talking about meeting his daughter, Isabel for the first time.
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Dodson missed seeing his daughter's birth in person four months ago because it happened during his nine month deployment to Kuwait.
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Now, Dodson is making up for that lost time with Isabel, her big brother, Owen, and his wife.
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While he is overseas, Dodson says he definitely misses the comforts of home.
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You may recognize Jesse Eisenberg as an Academy Award-nominated actor from films such as The Social Network, but he is also an established playwright and author who has been featured in publications including the New Yorker and McSweeney's. In his first collection of short stories, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, Eisenberg's sharp comic timing lends plenty of laugh-out-loud moments to stories that span a wide variety of subjects from arguments between college roommates to reimagined historical scenes, but there are also an astonishing amount of introspective moments and tender displays of human vulnerability. The first grouping of stories, which lend the book its title, are told from a 9-year-old restaurant critic's point of view and are simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. This collection is a wonderful fall read for those looking for some brainy humor, emotional depth and a few lovely lines of prose that are sure to get under your skin.
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The first thing they brought us was a rolled up wet washcloth, which I unrolled and put on my lap because Mom always said that the first thing I have to do in a nice restaurant is put the napkin in my lap. But this napkin was hot and wet and made me feel like I peed my pants. Mom got angry and asked me if I was stupid.
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By now, you've most likely heard something about 2000's cult-favorite horror novel House of Leaves. Author Mark Z. Danielewski's highly experimental writing style is often compared to that of James Joyce, but his inclusion of graphic elements—sections of text printed in shapes, multiple typefaces and font sizes, certain words printed in color—have set his novels apart in today's literary landscape. His new novel, The Familiar, is the first in a series with 27 planned volumes (yes, 27!), and it follows a 12-year-old girl named Xanther who finds an abandoned kitten on the side of the road one rainy day. Well, the story isn't quite that straightforward. Danielewski also explores Mexico, Singapore, a brutal gang in East L.A., two computer scientists in Marfa, Texas, and many more settings and characters—each with their own color-coded sections. Fans of more traditional linear narratives may want to take caution, but if you're feeling adventurous and are interested in a different kind of reading experience, then The Familiar is for you.
Xanther cracks the window, gulping air, and wow!, the spray actually warms her!
"Remember: they are only questions," Anwar has told her many times. Like he's also told her: "Remember, they are only answers."
Xanther starts breathing regular-like again.
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Dancing in the air.
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"Is everything okay?" Anwar asks.
"Huh?" Xanther responds, profoundly, rolling the window back up, too aware of what she must look like bu the look already cornering her dad's eyes. "Head in the clouds?" she tries.
"Those are some clouds."
"You know, just daydreaming," Xanther tries again.
"Tell me then," Anwar sighs. "Tell me your daydreams, daughter."
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She can't stand lying either. She really can't.
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Sydney Padua's impeccably researched, yet playfully imagined graphic biography is a treat for history buffs and graphic novel lovers alike. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage brings us into the heart of London's intellectual society in 1842. There, Ada Lovelace—young mathematician and the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron—meets Charles Babbage at a party. Here is where historical accuracy takes a backseat, and Padua presents a rip-roaring adventure story in which the pair build the famed Difference Engine, known as the world's first computer, and take the Victorian era by storm. With fantastically detailed art, footnotes and diagrams of Babbage's steam-powered computer, this is a whimsical graphic account like no other.
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Fanny Says by Nickole Brown
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There are few forces in this world like a true Southern grandmother. Nickole Brown has written a lyric biography of her own in her second collection, Fanny Says. Brown blends descriptions of the immensely wise, brazen and sailor-mouthed Fanny with ruminations on both the power of memory and the Kentucky culture that influenced them both. The editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson, the fabric of Brown's poems share threads of his deeply honest and personal reporting, but Fanny Says proves that she's a literary heavyweight in a class of her own.
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The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac by Sharma Shields
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The plot of Sharma Shields' The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac sounds pretty bizarre, but it's worth the suspension of disbelief. Eli Roebuck is certain that when he was 9 years old, his mother carried on an affair with a sasquatch and ran away with him into the woods. He vividly remembers meeting the sasquatch, or Mr. Krantz as he is introduced, and his giant furry feet. Eli, who grows up to be a podiatrist, becomes deeply obsessed with hunting down the Big Foot who carried off his mother. Unfortunately, Eli's onerous quest to find the monster of his childhood is a heavy toll on his family. And he's not the only one in his family dealing with very real demons. And unicorns. And lake monsters.
Finally the visitor arrived. Agnes raised to the door and stood very still before it, her hands on the belly of her apron, taking a deep breath, as though to calm herself. She swept the door open.
There stood her guest, "the most interesting man."
Eli tried not to stare. He did not see a man at all. What he saw was an enormous ape crushed into a filthy pin-striped suit. He remembered a book from school about exotic beasts, the giant apes who lived in the savage countries of the world, and the guest resembled those creatures: deep hooded brow, small blank eyes, thin-lipped mouth like a long pink gash. And the hair! The guest was so hairy that Eli was unsure of the color of his skin: Beneath the thick brown fur, his flesh—tough and charred, like strips of dried deer meat—appeared red in some places, purple in others. The guest even smelled of hair, badly, like a musty bearskin rug singed with a lit match.
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Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger
by Beth Harbison
St. Martin's • $25.99 • ISBN 9780312599133
On sale July 2013
Ashley Barton was ready to walk down the aisle when the best man broke the news that her fiance had been cheating. Unsure of her next step, she chose escape with the best man—also the groom's brother. Ten years later, Ashley is working in her family's bridal shop after neither relationship worked out. Recent gossip says both brothers will be back in town for a wedding, and emotions collide when they are reunited. What is that little spark she still feels? Is that love, anger—or heartburn from lunch?
Here is a brief excerpt depicting the moments just after Ashley has been told—minutes before her wedding—that her fiance has been cheating on her.
It can't be true, it can't be true, it can't be truuuue, it can't be true.
That beat carried her all the way up to the altar. She was aware of the eyes on her, but she met no one's gaze. Not even Burke's, though she knew—she could just feel—it was questioning.
What's wrong? What's going on?
No clear answer formed in her head. She didn't know what was going on, exactly. She was dazed, being carried on a rickety raft by an ocean of adrenaline.
She didn't know what she was going to do until she was right there by his side.
That's when it all came clear.
She drew her hand back and slapped him with all the power of every unacknowledged hurt he'd ever inflicted on her.
The she turned and ran back down the aisle, out of the church, followed, not by the undoubtedly stunned Burke, but by his best man. His brother.
Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph by Jennifer Pharr Davis
Beaufort Books • $24.95 • ISBN 9780825306938
published June 10, 2013
As a fan of Becoming Odyssa, her memoir of first hiking the AT after college, I was thrilled when I learned that Davis had written a new book, Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph, about her recent record-breaking experience. Certain to entertain readers—fellow hikers or not—this is a story of perseverance and grit, love, dedication and sacrifice. It's not so much about being the fastest AT hiker ever, as about taking on a challenge, consistently doing your best and allowing yourself to rely on other people to help you along the way.
Readers feeling unsure of themselves or frustrated by societal pressures regarding what they should look like, act like and/or focus on would benefit from reading Davis' story, which offers plenty of inspiration for becoming a better "me."
Here are Davis' thoughts after Anne Riddle Lundblad, an accomplished ultra-runner, tells Jen she's a role model:
"I mean, how does hiking the Appalachian Trail in a short amount of time positively impact anyone? But Anne made me realize that being a role model isn't about inspiring other people to be like you; it is about helping them to be the fullest version of themselves. The main legacy of this endeavor would not be to encourage others to set a record on the Appalachian Trail, but to encourage them to be the best form of their truest selves. And it just so happened that my best form was a hiker."
"No one seemed interested in what I'd learned or what the most valuable part of the experience had been. Instead, everyone wanted to talk about how I averaged 46.93 miles per day. . . . Why didn't anyone ask about the notions of living in the present or choosing something purposeful and fulfilling over something fun and easy? Or the idea that persistence and consistency can be more valuable than speed or strength? . . . Why did no one realize that the most miraculous part of the summer was not the record, but how well my husband had loved me?!"
If you've read Wild, the best-selling memoir by Cheryl Strayed, you know it is about much more than just hiking. Such is Davis' story, too. The white blaze and rolling mountains on the cover will pull you in, and by the time you reach the end of the trail atop Springer Mountain, you'll be wondering how you, too, can find your best self.
Next week, I'll be hiking in the Tetons with my husband, and, having read Called Again, I know that I'll be a "better me" while I'm there. What book(s) have inspired you to become a better version of yourself?
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
Thomas & Mercer • $14.95 • ISBN 9781611099690
published July 16, 2013
Marcus Sakey's new supernatural thriller, Brilliance, lives up to its name. From the very start, this first novel in a projected series is full of action and intrigue. Since the 198os, about 1% of American children are born "brilliant" with a special gift—they're also known as abnorms. Some of these aborms can be a problem, and it is Nick Cooper's job as a government agent to catch the bad ones—as his own abnormal gift is to hunt his own kind. Can Cooper stop all of the bad abnorms from hurting people, and how does he tell the good guys from the bad?
In the opening chapter, Cooper has spent the day tracking an abnorm and finally catches up with her in a hotel bar in San Antonio, Texas:
Cooper took a sip of coffee. It was burned and watery. "You hear there was another bombing? Philadelphia this time. I was listening to the radio on the way in. Talk radio, some redneck. He said a war was coming. Told us to open our eyes."
"Who's us?" The woman spoke to her hands.
"Around here, I'm pretty sure 'us' means Texans, and 'them' means the other seven billion on the planet."
"Sure. Because there aren't any brilliants in Texas."
Cooper shrugged, took another sip of his coffee. "Fewer than some other places. The same percentage are born here, but they tend to move to more liberal areas with larger population density. Greater tolerance, and more chance to be with their own kind. There are gifted in Texas, but you'll find more per capita in Los Angeles or New York." He paused. "Or Boston."
Alex Vasquez's fingers went white around her bottle of Bud. She'd been slouching before, the lousy posture of a programmer who spent whole days plugged in, but now she straightened. For a long moment she stared straight ahead. "You're not a cop."
Through some twisted ups and downs, the fast-paced Brilliance has all of the best with manipulation, revolution and social commentary in a world disturbingly close to our own. In an interview, author Marcus Sakey said that he hates for his plots to be revealed, so I will stop there and simply say be ready to stay up all night with this one.
Will you be reading Brilliance? What are you reading during Private Eye July?
Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
Algonquin • $23.95 • ISBN 9781616202637
published May 28, 2013
Stories told from alternating perspectives catch me every time, and Good Kings Bad Kings is no exception. Susan Nussbaum has created a powerful debut novel, the winner of this year's Barbara Kingsolver's PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Nussbaum's story gives readers a look into the lives of institutionalized juveniles with disabilities, including Yessenia Lopez, who just wants to be living free again, and Teddy, who dresses in a suit and tie every day. The voices of these children and others are joined by those of caring employees working at the Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center, like Joanne, the data-entry clerk. Throughout the pages, friendship, love and trust are explored as these characters forge relationships that will give them the strength they need to fight back against their mistreatment.
Nussbaum's novel is a challenging look at institutions and what being disabled really means. Humor and authentic voices pair together to make this novel one that will leave you thinking about the choices you make every day. Here's an excerpt from Joanne's point-of-view:
My duties are mostly typing. There must have been dozens of far more appropriate applicants. People who type with all ten fingers, for example. But for the first—and I feel pretty certain only—time I think I got a job because of my disability. It's well known in crip circles that the best place for a crip to get a job is a place that's swarming with other crips. So I applied, emphasizing my computer skills, which are pretty good, and how important it is for disabled youth to see disabled adults in the workplace. Places like this love the idea of role models. There was no haggling over the miserable pay either, as money is no object for me. No salary could possibly be too low. The place could pay me in rat turds and I'd happily put them in my wallet. What I needed more than money was human interaction.
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Beach House No. 9 by Christie Ridgway
Published January 29, 2013
I interviewed Christie for the February issue of BookPage, and you can read that conversation here. It was fascinating to hear how the veteran romance author creates chemistry between her characters, and her description of the real-life Crystal Cove (which inspired her trilogy's setting) made me want to book a flight to California.
Beach House No. 9 is about book doctor Jane, a woman who is hired to work with war journalist Griffin on his memoir. Naturally, things don't go exactly as planned. Griffin can't seem to buckle down and write, and then there's the matter of the two of them falling in love . . .
Here's an early scene, after Jane moves into the guest room at Beach House No. 9 to keep a close eye on Griffin's work. This is early in the novel, but you can already see that she's having an affect on him:
Griffin propped his feet on the rail at Captain Crow's and sipped from the cardboard cup in his hand. The restaurant didn't serve breakfast, but the prep cook made a pot of coffee in the mornings, and this morning Griffin had made friends with the prep book. The guy had left for an emergency onion run, giving Griffin privacy and a place to start the day away from the eagle eye of the little dictator.
He still clung to his one and only plan in regards to Jane: avoid her as much as possible—and completely avoid what she wanted him to do.
After moving in two days before, she'd kept mostly to the guest room she'd selected. Though he'd continued blasting music through his earbuds, her close proximity seemed to punch through the wall of sound. He'd felt her presence, the capable and unwavering energy she exuded, despite the beams and plaster between them. She'd brought into his house a new scent too, a light and feminine fragrance that somehow pierced the Pacific's own salty-green perfume.
At dinner that first night, while he'd manned the barbecue and stayed out of range of the conversation between her, his family and Old Man Monroe as much as possible, he'd still been able to chronicle the effect she had on them. She'd managed to surprise a laugh out of his sister, unearth a set of jacks to amuse his nephews, put a book in the hands of his sulking niece and send their elderly neighbor home with a smile after a short stint holding the sleeping baby.
If he didn't keep up his guard, damn it, he had good reason to fear she'd manage to make him start the memoir.
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By TERRY WILLISSun Advocate sports reporter
The Golden Eagles traveled to Idaho for a two-game road trip and were never able to take flight as they dropped both games to North Idaho College and College of Southern Idaho.
The Eagles went down in defeat 85-52 to NIC on Thursday night. The EU men were ice cold on offense as they were only able to score 23 in the first half. NIC outscored them by 13 and then piled it on with 50 points in the second half. The Eagles struggled to get over 50 for the game. It was the worst offensive output from the team this year.
Cameron Evans lead with 13 followed by Bryant Crowder with 12. They were the only Eagles to hit double figures. Jonathan Mills had 12 rebounds.
On Saturday the Eagles played a much better game but were unable to walk away with the win against CSI losing 89-80.
The EU men found the first half of play more to their liking. They kept things close and headed to the break ahead 38-35. CSI found a way to take the lead back in the second period and walked away with the win.
The EU Men are now sporting a three game losing streak.
Brady Hurst ended up with a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Evans was the EU top scorer with 15. James Kinney added 14 followed by Crowder with 13. Aaron Hawk-Harris ended with 11.
The Eagles are looking forward in returning to the friendly confines of the BDAC on Friday night as they host Colorado Northwestern Community College at 7:30 p.m.


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Marvel's The Avengers
Action/Adventure, SciFi/Fantasy
"Marvel's The Avengers"-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth
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Running time: 2hr 22min
Opens: May 04, 2012 Nationwide
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If you can accurately predict the weather, you may be able to predict how much energy can be generated from wind turbines. That was one objective of the "Great Plains Wind Energy Transmission Development Project," completed in 2011, to "develop a wind energy forecast system, and demonstrate its efficacy in scheduling power output from wind farms in the Great Plains." The forecasting system described in the report was comprised of three elements, a software component using various weather prediction models, a wind energy output model, and a graphical user interface.
DOE's RTG is doing it again. The Department's Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) is providing continuous power to the Mars rover Curiosity. This radioactive power source is "essentially a nuclear battery that will operate the rover's instruments, robotic arm, wheels, computers and radio. It is fueled with plutonium-238 that gives off heat as it naturally decays. No moving parts are required to convert this heat into electricity."1
New simulation tools and data collection capabilities now available for wind power research are creating a lot of excitement and significant advances in the wind energy industry. For example, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) tripled previous estimates of U.S. wind power potential by using advanced wind mapping and validation techniques. New wind development areas were also identified where the wind resource was previously considered unsuitable.
On August 13, 1942, the Manhattan Engineer District, whose name was based upon the geographical location of its headquarters, was established. In September, the Army appointed Colonel Leslie R. Groves to head the effort. Groves held that the exigencies of war required scientists to move from laboratory research to development and production in record time. Though traditional scientific caution might be short-circuited in the process, there was no alternative if a bomb was to be built in time to be used in the current conflict (World War II).
Various isotope separation methods (uranium enrichment) to produce uranium-235 were being researched at this time. One was gaseous diffusion being done at Columbia and another was the electromagnetic method being done at Berkeley under Ernest O. Lawrence. Based upon the success of the electromagnetic method, the S-1 (The Office of Scientific Research and Development Section On Uranium) Executive Committee recommended building plants in Tennessee at Site X (now Oak Ridge).
The newly redesigned OpenNet contains spotlights on declassified collections. This quarter the spotlight is on the Human Radiation Experiments collection. OpenNet provides easy, timely access to the Department of Energy's declassified documents, including information declassified in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. In addition to these documents, OpenNet references older document collections from several DOE sources


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Shroud Of Purrin Jacket (Men's) (out-of-stock)
Out of Stock Product Number: 28136
The men's Nau Shroud Of Purrin Jacket is a soft shell, redefined. Made from a smooth, two-way stretch fabric, this wind-and water-resistant recycled poly soft shell opens to reveal a soft, faux-fur lining that's ideal for cold weather days.
- Soft shell fabric is wind and water resistant and highly breathable.
- Two-way stretch fabric for movement.
- Offset DWR front zip with wind flap keeps the weather out.
- Bulk-free trims and zips keep design clean and compact.
- Two front zip pockets, one left chest pocket.
- Internal zippered security pocket.
- Drawcord hem closure.
- Tailored details: Bartack details reinforce back seam and add visual texture
Gender: Men's
Weight: 20 oz.
Material: Fabric: Face: 100% recycled polyester, BACK: 100% recycled polyester.
Fit: Tailored
Season: F12
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Sunday, October 11, 2009The Lipscomb Bisons appeared to be on their way to their first Atlantic Sun win of the season Sunday afternoon, but a surge in the final 2:24 of the second half gave Florida Gulf Coast a 2-1 victory in Fort Myers, Fla.
Miguel DaSilva struck first for the Bisons at 37:39 of the first half. Andrew Chamberlain passed the ball to DaSilva from the right side. DaSilva hit the shot, his third goal of the season, from approximately five yards out.
The Bisons defense held tight until Florida Gulf Coast capitalized on a header directly off of a corner kick at 87:34 to tie the game. They added another header, directly off a free kick, for the game winner from 35 yards out with 27 seconds left to play.
The Bisons were out-shot 10-5 with both teams credited with four shots on goal.
DaSilva led the team with three shots, all shots on goal.
Brent McGee went the distance in goal for the Bisons, making two saves.
The teams were even in corner kicks with five each.
The Bisons are 3-8-2 overall, 0-3-1 in the A-Sun. Florida Gulf Coast is 5-5-1, 3-1-0 in the conference.
The Bisons return home this weekend to play a pair of Atlantic Sun games. They will face North Florida Friday night at 7:30 and Jacksonville Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
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By CHRISTINE YOUNGIntermountain Catholic
Local residents accessing the Mountain View Cemetery in Helper on Cemetery Road are noticing a cross erected just off the road in recent days," said Lois Giordano, a member of Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Helper.
She said they ask if there has been an accidental fatality in past years or if is it the burial site of a prominent citizen from years gone by.
Giordano tells them, "Actually the cross denotes the site of the first Catholic Church in Helper - St Anthony of Padua. The original church was constructed there in 1914. The pastor of the parish at that time was Msgr. Alfredo F. Giovannoni.
Giordano said the church burned down in 1934 and the new Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church was erected in Helper on Main Street in 1939. It was believed that the fire was an arson, but nothing was proven. The only evidence of its once existence is the concrete and rock foundation at the site.
"It is upon the concrete foundation that the present cross was erected," said Giordano. "The project for the cross was presented by Msgr. Francis Pellegrino to the Helper Beautification Committee. The committee solicited funds and made arrangements for the cross to be constructed and erected.
Msgr. Pellegrino, now retired and a resident of Carmichael, California, is a native of Helper. He served as pastor of St. Anthony of Padua from 1978 to 1985, for seven years .
"In June of this year on one of his annual visits to Helper, he and Father Edward Metzger, who has been pastor of Saint Anthony of Padua since 2003, were happy to accept the request to bless the cross," said Giordano.
Giordano said the cross was designed and constructed by Jeramiah Garcia and painted by Kirk Mascaro.
Saint Anthony of Padua in Helper, Carbon County was a mission of Price from 1917 to 1944.
Coal was discovered in the Scofield Winter Quarters area in 1877, according to "Salt of the Earth" by Bernice Maher Mooney, author. The narrow gauge railroad of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company was completed through Castle Gate in Price Canyon in 1883. During the decade of the 1880s, Catholic families moved into the area and Bishop Lawrence J. Scanlan sent priests to celebrate Mass in their homes.
In 1908 in Helper, Father James Collins, not to be confused with the priest of the same name who served at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Salt Lake City from 1930 to 1957, served Carbon County and organized catechism classes. The first class to make its First Holy Communion in Helper did so on May 30, 1909.
In 1910, Father Anthony Petillo was appointed to serve Helper and the surrounding areas. Saint Anthony Altar Society was organized with Mrs. Phillip McGuire as the first president.
In 1914, Joseph Barboglio headed a drive to raise funds for a church. On ground donated by Helper Real Estate and Investment Company, a rustic brick church of English gothic architecture was completed and named Saint Anthony of Padua. Stations served by Helper were Gold Mountain, Price, Scofield, and Sunnyside in Carbon County, and Thistle and Provo in Utah County.
In 1917, Helper was declared a mission of Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish in Price and remained so until 1944. Msgr. Alfred F. Giovannoni became the first pastor in 1917 until 1930, and remains legendary.


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Retroviral Vector Mediated Globin Gene Transfer to Correct Sickle Cell Anemia or Thalassemia
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Using sickle cell and thalassemia mouse models, researchers will evaluate the possibility of correcting these disorders by inserting healthy genetic material into the diseased blood cells. Human participants affected with sickle cell disease or thalassemia will donate bone marrow for use in the mouse models.
Sickle Cell Anemia
Genetic: Gene Therapy
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|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Experimental Evaluation of the Potential to Correct the Pathophysiology of Sickle Cell Anemia or Thalassemia by Retroviral Vector Mediated Globin Gene Transfer
- To develop retroviral vector mediated gene transfer as a potentially curative therapy for sickle cell anemia and β-thalassemia. [ Time Frame: 4 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]The specific hypothesis to be tested is that a vector can be designed that achieves a therapeutic level of globin production in transduced cells.
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|Study Start Date:
|July 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|July 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|July 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Genetic: Gene Therapy
Human participants affected with sickle cell disease or thalassemia will donate bone marrow for use in the mouse models
Detailed Description:
These studies are designed to evaluate the potential of retroviral vector mediated gene transfer to correct the pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia and β-thalassemia. CD34+ cells purified from bone marrow of research participants with a sickle cell syndrome or a thalassemia syndrome will be transduced with retroviral vectors containing γ-globin coding sequences under the control of the β-globin gene promoter and including various regulatory elements chosen to enhance gene expression and to insulate regulatory elements from cellular genes at or near the integration sites. The efficiency of gene transfer and the function of the globin transgene will be evaluated in erythroid cells derived from transduced progenitors and from the progenitors in the bone marrow of immunodeficient mice engrafted with transduced, primitive hematopoietic cells. This study will evaluate whether a vector can be designed to achieve both a potentially therapeutic efficiency of gene transfer into repopulating cells and a potentially therapeutic level of globin gene expression in maturing erythroid cells.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with homozygous S/S disease or doubly heterozygous for S and β thalassemia who are 5 years or older are eligible. Patients with HbE- β- thalassemia or homozygous (severe) β-thalassemia are also eligible. Patients with thalassemia include those who are transfusion dependent (major) or severely anemic but relatively transfusion independent (intermedia). Diagnostic criteria include standard hematological parameters, red cell indices, hemoglobin electrophoresis and quantitative determination of HbF and HbA2.
- Patients are eligible for participation in the protocol only if they are currently clinically stable and have been free of all acute disease manifestations for a minimum of 14 days.
- Patients may participate while continuing their current therapeutic regimen including regular transfusion therapy or hydroxyurea administration.
In general, two categories of patients will be considered as research participants in this protocol.
- Patients who are 18 years or older and therefore able to provide informed consent will be eligible. Such individuals will be recruited from among patients followed at SJCRH. In addition, individuals followed in an outside clinic who are recruited will be asked to come to the Hematology Clinic at SJCRH to enroll and have the procedure performed. Alternatively, if a patient who is 18 or older is to undergo a diagnostic or surgical procedure under general anesthesia, and they agree to participate in the study, the bone marrow aspirate will be obtained at that time.
- Patients between the ages of 5 and 17 years who are scheduled for a diagnostic or surgical procedure at SJCRH or LeBonheur Children's Medical Center for which sedation or general anesthesia is indicated will be eligible for protocol enrollment. A bone marrow aspiration will be performed during the sedation or general anesthesia for the diagnostic or surgical procedure.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active, acute manifestations of sickle cell disease including painful crisis, acute chest syndrome, cerebrovascular events or active infection.
- Pregnant women will not be eligible for study enrollment.
- Inability or unwillingness of the research participant or legal guardian/representative to give written informed consent will preclude enrollment on this research protocol.
- Platelet count < 150,000/mm^3
- Neutrophil count < 2000/mm^3 (unless on hydroxyurea therapy)
- Neutrophil count < 1000/mm^3 for patients on hydroxyurea therapy
- Prothrombin Time > 17 seconds
- Partial thromboplastin Time > 43 seconds
- History of excessive bleeding in the context of previous procedures including surgery and dental extractions
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00669305
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|Contact: Arthur W Nienhuis, MD 866-278-5833 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Arthur W Nienhuis, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Arthur W Nienhuis, MD
|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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|NCT00669305 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 28, 2008
|Last Updated:
|June 22, 2015
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|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital:
Blood cells
Vector-mediated gene transfer
Bone marrow
CD34 cells
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Anemia, Sickle Cell
Anemia, Hemolytic
Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Hematologic Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 13, 2015