It’s been forever since I updated … grr …
I was reminiscing about strawberries a few days ago - you know, the real kind. The family went to a local chocolate shop - V Chocolates, my favorite, and got some chocolate covered strawberries. The chocolate was amazing, rich, belgian chocolate - but the strawberry was just bland. I started to think about my home grown strawberries and how I hadn’t dipped them in chocolate - or really done anything except eat them straight off the plant because I didn’t have enough ripe at the same time. That’s when I realized I wanted an entire 4×4 devoted to strawberries - maybe 2 4×4s.
The weather has turned cold, icy and blizzardy - and the snow isn’t budging. DH has been making his mom’s eggnog recipe using fresh eggs from the chickens. He also made delicious french toast with the eggs. We’ve had a couple of “twin” eggs - with two yolks. DH cooked ‘em up before I got a picture - but I think there will be more. We put a heating element in the hens cage to give them a few hot spots and keep the water from freezing. They are happy and keep producing eggs - even when it’s dark all day.
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You’re making me want chickens again. Maybe next spring when I’m feeling motherly.
I think you would enjoy a larger strawberry plot. I have one, and I still sit and eat the strawberries straight from it. Bear (my daughter) and I do it together.~~Dee
Hi Plantgirl, glad to see you back in the blogging world again. Fresh eggs must be such a treat!
Lots of beds of strawberries sounds delicious! Do different varieties fruit at different time? I would think that would be a good way to have lots of fruit over a long period of time.
Dee - the chickens are surprisingly very little work.
Racquel - Good to be back!!
Fern - Yes, different varieties fruit at different times. My sweeter varieties - ozark beauty and something else - fruited at the beginning of summer and the others fruited later on, even after it began to snow.
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