June 7, 2010

• My first strawberry harvest!!!!

  

  After getting about 3 inches of rain over the past three days I thought today would be a perfect day to do some weeding in the strawberry patch.  I have never planted strawberries before.  Picked plenty over the years.  Made more than my share of jam, shortcake, pie, etc., but I have never grown them. 

  So last year I decided to plant them for myself.  I ordered 25 plants of the June bearer variety.  I planted them and faithfully picked off the blossoms as the directions from the nursery told me to do.  They spread like the plague and I did my best to pinch off most of the shoots and train the rest to run only where I wanted them to go.  Unfortunately this spring I have been so busy with schoolwork that the weeds got a little bit away from me. 

  Today I went out to do a little weeding and discovered that the plants that were loaded with green fruit last week had a bunch of ripened fruit on them today and plenty more coming.  I picked it and brought it in and Melissa got going through her cookbooks trying to decide what she was going to make with these beauties.

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