Article: SHOP TALK Is it the last straw for strawberries?

Strawberries used to be a sublime summer treat but sadly nowadays, all too many have lost their allure

IT was one of the great rituals of summer. Somewhere around Midsummer's Day, my grandmother would take us down the garden, past the early potatoes, lettuces and radish, to the strawberry patch.

My cousins and I would hunt carefully through the leaves until we had enough small, sweet strawberries to fill the battered old metal colander Gran had brought out. Our reward was to eat some of the strawberries there and then in the garden. They were warm from the sun, sweet and delicious. Somewhere, there is a photo of my Singapore- born niece as a two-year-old tasting her first Welsh strawberry, ...

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