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our lanterns - photo by kind permission of Lisa Devlin - lanterns1.jpg
Crocus - the first flowers of spring 2008
I'm not sure if it's to keep 'us' in...or 'them' out but on Tuesday, the BBC local radio team were surrounded by a seven foot high fence. However, I'm relieved to report that we were left with a narrow escape route.
We started broadcasting on Wednesday with reporters and presenters from BBC Radio Stoke, Coventry and Warwickshire and Manchester. Luckily they managed to find us. You can see the aerials on the top of the 'OB' van, you can't really miss them, they're 20 foot tall - 
you just can't work out how to get in to them. We also did '2-ways' for BBC Radio Wiltshire, Oxford, Lancashire, Hereford and Worcester, Sheffield, Tees, Gloucestershire and Jersey. What's an 'OB' or a '2-way'? Like many organisations the BBC is full of jargon and acronyms...I'll share the secrets with you another time. 
Crazy looking flower
Without care plant may be overgrown by larger plants or eaten up. In this location farmers use to actually flood the fields once or several times a week as shown here in the picture. The foam on the water is from chemicals added.
Plants are water sensitive during the final phase of strawberry growth before harvest. Hence the plants are elevated, the water flows lower and gets the roots wet while leaving the actual plant and berries dry.
In rainy season strawberries become soft and foul easily. Hence the extra effort to keep the water away and lower than the plants.
Wet plants also attract more snails - who feed on strawberries BECAUSE all other plants have been carefully removed.
Smart farmers offer other plants such as salad, vegetable, flowers, grass to snails to safeguard the strawberries !!
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
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