by plantgirl on July 14, 2008
The heat of the summer is fully here - and although some of my sfg squares are empty most are full. The strawberries that didn’t produce all June are finally fruiting - and the June-bearers are done. The beets seem to be doing good but I am having a hard time telling them apart from the swiss chard. Beets should be ready for eating soon and I can’t wait - it’s taken forever!! My tomato plants bottom leaves have been dying and turning yellow but the Radiator Charlie plant is starting to blossom, and the Cherokee purple [click to continue...]
by plantgirl on June 3, 2008
Yesterday I found one of my strawberry plant’s had died and my spinach has not grown - and it is now (finally) getting too hot for them to do good anyway - so I will probably just pull them up and put something else in.
My beets were doing good - until I became too focused on checking my strawberry plants and turned to see my 2 year old had pulled most of them up. She gave me her intent “I am a good helper!” look and what could I do? Seconds before she had been gently patting the dirt down around some very established strawberry plants. I have to admit I don’t appreciate this sort of help but it still was cute.
She also likes eating strawberries - including green [click to continue...]
by plantgirl on May 27, 2008
by plantgirl on May 21, 2008
Here is the picture of my recently planted strawberries. There are two different varieties here - I can’t remember what the ones on the left are but the ones on the right (with actual strawberries) are Ozark Beauty.
This just looks so [click to continue...]
