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06-19-2009, 08:47 PM
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Bees? Not in Maine
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Strawberries! The first of the season
It is raining today.
While feeding our hogs, I did wander through the garden and I saw, well...
I was looking at our strawberry beds, and,
Then I looked closer
And two more:
Nice green, but wait,..
IF you look close [or zoom in] you can just barely see a splash of red in there:
And boy these plants are thriving too:
What I mean to say is that we have strawberries!
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06-19-2009, 09:10 PM
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Congratulations! Those are some good looking plants. Our strawberries are just starting to come on, too. So that's some good garden news. Bad news is that a lot of our corn didn't come up and none of the cucumbers. Oh, well. Everything else looks good, especially the tomatoes, peppers and snap peas.
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06-19-2009, 09:27 PM
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Eddie Van Halen Wanna Be
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How are the shortcake bushes doing?
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06-20-2009, 12:47 AM
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 's are definately my favorite fruit. I've been relegated to buying them in the plastic tubs too long. Yours look great.
I think FBK has a green thumb.  Amongst a few dozen other talents.  |
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06-20-2009, 08:52 AM
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Bees? Not in Maine
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Originally Posted by tankratt
How are the shortcake bushes doing?
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Not so good, the first planting was wiped out by hard frost. I posted that at the time, then re-planted.
Within our effort to shift a greater percentage of our diet over to things harvested here, B has found that dried beans make a good substitute for wheat.
So more and more of our breads and such are from beans rather than from wheat [it changes bread from being a starch/carb to being a protein].
I do not recall if I posted this other tidbit but she has also found that ground horseradish makes a good black pepper substitute. And horseradish grows great here
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06-20-2009, 01:50 PM
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A quiet, loving, Conservative
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Good for you! The pick your own places have been harvesting berries for about 2 weeks around here. There also seem to be a zillion wild strawberries in the field this year....good year!
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06-20-2009, 02:06 PM
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Botda Farm :D
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very nice! DH and a friend did a brief walk around the "yard" and the "backfield" between downpours today. There's rhubarb, blackberries, and an apple orchard that needs serious attention. The rhubarb is ready, I need to find my canning jars. Now, if the weather will just dry up a bit........ |
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06-20-2009, 03:32 PM
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Eddie Van Halen Wanna Be
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Originally Posted by msina
very nice! DH and a friend did a brief walk around the "yard" and the "backfield" between downpours today. There's rhubarb, blackberries, and an apple orchard that needs serious attention. The rhubarb is ready, I need to find my canning jars. Now, if the weather will just dry up a bit........ |
Look on the bright side the house will warm, not hot when the canning starts  |
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06-21-2009, 05:32 PM
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Thank you for the nice photos! I can almost taste them - berries, not photos.
Very neat planters, too...
Those berries deserve some sun!!!
Last edited by maureenb; 06-21-2009 at 05:33 PM..
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06-21-2009, 05:43 PM
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Bees? Not in Maine
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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... Very neat planters, too...
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Thank you.
Those are 55-gallon drums cut in half. Some with split garden hoses on the rough edges to protect gardeners from getting themselves cut.
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