[tkln]

Originally Posted by quickdraw

It's the Early Girl variety

Ha ha...that could be it.

[fromPA]

Wood's Market is great. Their variety of plants is wonderful-- most of the plants that are currently in my garden came from them.

[quickdraw]

Originally Posted by Sherylcatmom

This morning as my husband and I drove by Wood's Market Garden in Brandon, we saw a big sign proclaiming "STRAWBERRIES". We decided they had to be importing them from somewhere but we stopped anyway. Turns out they've had fresh strawberries from their own vines since late last week.

We sniffed the strawberries and almost fell over in ecstasy. We bought two quarts. I just ate two strawberries and they are so sweet and tender that I am salivating just thinking about them.

What's ripe in your part of Vermont? What delicious harvest treasures are you enjoying?

I should thank you as I had my wife pick up some of those strawberries
on her way back from Rutland. I ate a lot of them and I'm not even that fond of strawberries. My wife was carrying on about them all weekend.

[GypsySoul22]

I better hit the farm stand soon!! Last time they only had flowers (pretty and expensive flower baskets).

I'm trying to grow basil, peppers and tomatoes on my patio. The basil is doing pretty well. The tomatoes and peppers want hotter weather.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by GypsySoul22

I better hit the farm stand soon!! Last time they only had flowers (pretty and expensive flower baskets).

I'm trying to grow basil, peppers and tomatoes on my patio. The basil is doing pretty well. The tomatoes and peppers want hotter weather.

Well other than my strawberries (which are doing great, though the chipmunks are enjoying them as much as I am) nothing is growing well for me. Everything is coming up very slowly and the tomatoes and peppers don't like the weather. The things doing best are in containers on the back porch where they're protected from the constant rain...

[quickdraw]

Does anyone here use beer traps for slugs? I'm catching smaller slugs, but I've watched the larger ones crawl out. I guess the idea is that they get drunk and drown. I may need to change my beer more. I'm also thinking about switching to malt liquor as my slugs seem able to hold their booze.

[tkln]

Sigh. All my strawberries have drowned. I didn't even get to eat ONE!!!!!

Luckily I do have one potted plant with the strawberries that produce all summer. Of course, no guarantees of fruit if the sun never shines.

[History Rules]

Went strawberry picking last weekend about twenty minutes south of shelbourne, right off the same road as the shelbourne museum. Best strawberrys I ever had.