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- June
- 28
Four (4) Things About . . . STRAWBERRIES!
My apologies to those of you who are not doing the fruit share, but last week we got the reddest most ripe delicious strawberries ever. They make a great healthy summer dessert by themselves. They are still in season and here are four things about them (thank you wikipedia and londonstrawberryfestival.com):
-Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds (approximately 200 per berry) on the outside.
-One cup (144 g) of strawberries contains approximately 45 calories.
-Eating strawberries, which are rich in nitrate, can increase the flow of blood & oxygen to the muscles by 7%. This prevents muscle fatigue, making exercise easier.
-Folk lore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you’ll soon fall in love.
In addition to eating strawberries, my almost three year-old son and I really like watching this video of a strawberry growing. It’s time lapse so you don’t have to wait all season.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
This is perfectly timed: my strawberries have finally stopped bearng (after producing an incredible crop for the whole month of June) and now they are throwing runners in all directions, getting ready to overrun the flowerbed in which they serve as a groundcover.
If you have a sunny place to plant them, please let me know and we’ll arrange for you to get some.
I still have lots of other plants too, in case you didn’t get in touch with me when I first offered.
And I’ll soon be getting columbine and coreopsis seeds.