Hullo, Future Me. It’s Past Me again and wow I really messed up with seeds overall. No, seriously–I really messed up! Continue reading “Note to Future Me #16”
Tag: strawberry
Updated the Plant Progress yesterday
I updated the 2018 Plantings page.
We’ve had another casualty, but some success as well (one noted by image yesterday). We also ate our first blueberries and raspberries of the season (red and black). It was still a bit soon for the blueberries we taste tested. The strawberries keep getting raided by the critters before we get a chance. To be fair, we have a lot more raspberry canes than we do fruiting strawberry plants so far.
Speaking of strawberries…surprise!
I had noticed yesterday when looking at the patch along the fence that a leaf seemed to be crumpled a bit. I thought it was simply caught while growing under the next nearest leaf and grew oddly, so I bent down to nudge it open, and then felt uneducated. Inside was a larvae. I hadn’t even considered something would be inside. Continue reading “Speaking of strawberries…surprise!”
strawberries everywhere followup part 2
Today, as I am yanking up my latest nemesis–purple loosestrife–I see a tiny blob of red. “Huh,” I think to myself, “That’s new.”
Strawberries. Three tiny ones on a plant buried in the front yard sloped portion’s masses of wildflowers and grasses. Then I find another plant close by, also with red budding berries. Continue reading “strawberries everywhere followup part 2”
Update on growing bits and seeds — second week of June ’18
Bought two plant seeds this week, black eyed susans and bachelor buttons. I did manage to get them in a planter for the time being. I’m still wary of the squirrels, though the susan seeds are so tiny they can’t possibly want to steal those, right? I’m going to try stagger sowing them a bit, though not by much because the start is already pretty darn late this year. (Hullo, June!) So I only did some of each to start. Continue reading “Update on growing bits and seeds — second week of June ’18”
Woo! Unexpected progress…
My partner somehow didn’t get called in today, so we started building our first kitchen garden bed where there will be peas and corn and other things. It was hard to get an angle where you could see the rough width, length from the window, but it’s not finished yet anyhoo. We’re on break now, and about to head back out to finish digging a bit, then we’ll fill with wood and see how tired we are. It’s been a long day for us. Continue reading “Woo! Unexpected progress…”
strawberries everywhere followup
I did recall one thing last year, confirmed recently by the emerging yellow flowers. What I thought were strawberry runners under the clothesline are not entirely just garden strawberries. There are also what’s known as mock strawberries aka Indian strawberries or false strawberries. There are lots of medicinal uses for them, and I also read that in India, they are often considered an offering to the gods. I definitely like them as a groundcover, so that’s a gift to me! Continue reading “strawberries everywhere followup”
strawberries…strawberries everywhere
Last year we found out that along with our berry bushes, we had strawberry plants too. It wasn’t long before I realized we had very large swaths of the yard and beds that were carpeted with their runners. We haven’t ID’d what type they are yet.
