Strawberries

Strawberries are in abundance over here and they are delicious.  I have been buying a couple of punnets each week and putting them in our lunch boxes as a sweet snack.  We could eat them every day all year round if they were available.

Apart from being delicious they also have some great health benefits being low in calories and high in fibre, have lots of potassium and plenty of antioxidants.  We have put them in our morning breakfast shakes as well  as eating them straight out of the plastic container.

We thought that next year we would look at growing some for fun, it seems like they can be planted pretty much all year round here but need to take care in the hotter months to ensure the leaves don’t get burnt.