Posted by I wasn’t planning on making jam today. The strawberries at our local ‘pick your own’ are not usually ready until the last ball is struck at Wimbledon.
It was a good thing I checked.
A good two weeks earlier than usual.
It was a cool day so I had several rows to myself.
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Mind you, I didn’t need to move very far to fill two buckets.
I always pick too much and worry I have enough cash on me.
So we have a fridge full of strawberries and a shelf full of jam.
Which I had to try.
Love, Lucie x
Love, Lucie 
We have plans for it next weekend! But I had to laugh as I ALWAYS have the same worry about the cash!!! Hahaha I thought it was just me!
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Trouble is, I’ve no idea how many supermarket punnets you can fit in a bucket. Then you get them home and wonder how exactly you are going to get through them all in the next 3 days.
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Well yours look delicious!
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You truly are an all round crafter. Jam! Brilliant.
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I seem to eat the majority of it but strawberry jam in the middle of winter is a real treat for me.;)
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Where do you go to pick strawberries Lucie? My boys have never done it and would love it.
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Bentley grange farm between Wakefield and Denby Dale. If you look on their website it tells you what fruit is open that day and the times. The strawberries are under open poly tunnels so it doesn’t even matter if it’s raining. Take wellies. It’s a lovely peaceful place.
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Thankyou, I shall look it up.
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We have had strawberries here for a while now but, apart from the little Gariguette strawberries an early fruiting French variety which are nice, most of them are from Spain (we are not that far from the border here) and neither are a patch on English ones in my opinion
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Spanish ones are just not the same, are they? I wonder what the Spanish would think of the British Strawberry.
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We were amused on holiday in Corfu last year. We were sat in our local bar on the seafront having a glass of wine before dinner when a little white van came along, all the locals wandered over to the van and huddled round. We wondered what was going on in this usually quiet little village then the owner of the bar came back with his purchase to show us and said “English strawberries, they are the best”.
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English strawberries in Corfu? Well, I never knew they travelled outside the country!
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Oooh lovely jam! Yummy. I love visiting our local strawberry farm too. I’ve frozen quite a few this year for smoothies 🙂
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I do exactly the same!
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