My strawbs have a couple of weeks to go before we can start eating them.
I grow 6 pots in the greenhouse for an early crop and these just keep giving through the season. We get a good BOWL every 2 - 3 days 
My mum is the same. She has 4 or 5 hanging baskets, each with 5 or 6 plants. I might try hanging baskets next year.
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We picked our first strawberries yesterday 
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Pretty certain my tomato plugs were DOA 
Those fruit trees did well then
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Yum
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Need to buy a pump to get water out of the well overnight; anyone use one / have any recommendations for makes to avoid or look at.
Don’t Festool make one? 
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Kendo ?
We use one. It’s an electric, working on suction, so it’s at ground level and can only lift one atmosphere (in practice about 9m of water). Priming is a minor pain. But because it’s at ground level everything else - electricity supply, servicing etc - is easy. The alternative would have been to put it down the well which would have allowed the water to rise mostly under pressure, not suction. We’d have had to have done this if we’d needed to lift more than 9m or so. But then mounting it and getting to it, if we’d had to, would have been very much more difficult. I was also surprised to find how quickly ordinary stuff corrodes in the permanently damp atmosphere of the well itself (the lights were useless in a year or two - should’ve used pond lights). So any pump that goes down a well needs to be designed for that job. A pump at ground level is noisy and needs ventilation to stay cool. It’s seen our garden through a few hosepipe bans though, and if I was starting again I’d put a header tank in the loft and plumb the loos to flush using well water. It’d save us a few quid on the water bill.
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Love to see healthy rose garden, it really suits your place too.
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Beautiful 
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We have never managed to get a decent rose yet. There were are a few nice ones here when we moved (going by the labels) but some seem to be slowly reverting to pink red dog roses.
We live in hope though and have recently move two roses that had been smothered for years - One had label calling it Darcy Bustle - I have high hopes that are likely to be dashed.
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