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by nets, so only use it if you can check it regularly.More on growing strawberriesDeal with grey mouldon soft fruits.Grow early strawberries.Raise new strawberry plants.Plant up strawberries in a hanging basket.

It's been a bumper year for strawberries on the Bathampton plot. Lizzy, Paul and I have been picking for all we're worth and my jam pan has scarcely left the stove.We grow two varieties of strawberry: an early called 'Honeoye' and a later one

It's always exciting when we move the stock outside from the polytunnels to 'harden off' and 'grow on', so that they're just perfect for the Chelsea Flower Show. I guess it's rather like farmers letting cows out onto the grass after a long winter