Strawberries

Five things about strawberries...

1) the name actually comes from the fact that they grow well when straw is laid down for the plants to grow amongst. The main theory is that the straw helps keep the ground moist, in that i protects the ground from the drying rays of sunlight. Of course finding straw in the city is a natural fiasco because of course city planners have been brain damaged for most of the century.

2) the plants spread like weeds sending "Runners", or roots away from the main plant to quickly dominate a region. If one was in a rock and roll band and they had ideas about "spreading the music to the world" they might want to take a look at the mighty Strawberry because things that naturally succeed do so for a reason. The difference between a gaggle of hammerheads talking big to themselves about how their next album is going to be so good it's going to go gold, is shockingly different from a plant that grabs energy and puts it into an underground network to drive solid bases in other communities and then springs out and starts kicking ass.

3) Strawberries are very nutritious but yet are also among the 12 foods on which pesticide residues are found in very high quantity. Therefore you should eat organic Strawberries... or grow your own Man Strawberries.


4) Although Man Strawberry farming is the way to go it perhaps might be a bit too much work to haul you neighbours old concrete laundry tubs out to your garden and countersink them to the ground level so that you can contain your strawberry patch withing you garden. Don't get me wrong... definitely a man thing to do, but it's a lot of work. As a thinking man, if i were to do it again i would just make a foundation and pour fresh concrete walls a few feet high. that way you don't have to loose sleep at night worrying about the drainage in your strawberry patch.

5) Strawberry Beer is made in Belgium and in fact is just flavoured with some sweet strawberry action, rather than fermented with strawberries... as we know, any man worth his guitar callouses will make alcohol with his organic strawberries and you can write that one down