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but are the wild strawberries eidible? My grass isn't!!!
they're edible, but not worth the bother. actually i guess they're not really wild strawberries, but mock strawberries - and although they're also called 'indian strawberries,' india in this case refers to the place where all your customer assistance calls are routed
First time I've grown cucumbers, they look like they may be 'vining' - should I set up a trellis thing or just let them run along the ground? How far do the runners stretch on these things?
I was thinking a trellis, but don't see how that would support the weight of growing fruit?
Oh, they're being grown in a long rectangular container, not in the ground
First time I've grown cucumbers, they look like they may be 'vining' - should I set up a trellis thing or just let them run along the ground? How far do the runners stretch on these things?
I was thinking a trellis, but don't see how that would support the weight of growing fruit?
Oh, they're being grown in a long rectangular container, not in the ground
They would love you if you give them a trellis to climb on, but it really doesn't make any difference. I will add, this year mine are doing better than even including my volunteers. They have attacked the tomato plants, the are growing up the fense and over the side of the raised garden and onto the grass.
they're edible, but not worth the bother. actually i guess they're not really wild strawberries, but mock strawberries - and although they're also called 'indian strawberries,' india in this case refers to the place where all your customer assistance calls are routed
Well maybe those people in India like them. We have the same here with blackberries. When we lived in no California we picked blackberries all summer. I would can them for berry pie or make jam. Here the ones we have, although we have a lot they are so small it isn't worth worrying about.
Well maybe those people in India like them. We have the same here with blackberries. When we lived in no California we picked blackberries all summer. I would can them for berry pie or make jam. Here the ones we have, although we have a lot they are so small it isn't worth worrying about.
Nita
i doubt anybody would want to eat these things. i was excited when i first saw them but after tasting... blech. totally dry and tasteless. nothing like the tiny alpine strawberries you can find sometimes in the mtns of new mexico and colorado, which actually do taste good..
Just checked on my cucumber plants and it looks like I may have the same "too many cukes" issue soon LOL - it seems like every plant has 3 or 4 teeny elongations behind the flowers (which I'm assuming crow into cukes).
Got another 2 gallons of green beans today and canned up 5 more quarts. From looking at the plants I might get another 2 pickings from these beans.
I use cattle fence bent into a circle for my tomato cages this year I put them around my pickling cucumbers as well. Had a lot of trouble last year with them rotting on the ground before they would ripen. The vines are over 5' long right now loaded down with blooms. Have a few teeny tiny cukes on them now.
Saw my first light red tomato yesterday the others are all green but there are plenty of them. Yeah! Need to can up lots of tomato products this year.
Y'all can make cucumber salad with your cukes. Other than making pickles I have never tried anything else with them sorry.
Got another 2 gallons of green beans today and canned up 5 more quarts. From looking at the plants I might get another 2 pickings from these beans.
I use cattle fence bent into a circle for my tomato cages this year I put them around my pickling cucumbers as well. Had a lot of trouble last year with them rotting on the ground before they would ripen. The vines are over 5' long right now loaded down with blooms. Have a few teeny tiny cukes on them now.
Saw my first light red tomato yesterday the others are all green but there are plenty of them. Yeah! Need to can up lots of tomato products this year.
Y'all can make cucumber salad with your cukes. Other than making pickles I have never tried anything else with them sorry.
last night we had a salad with fresh cukes, orange cherry tomatoes, fresh green beans and beets that I had canned a few weeks ago. No lettuce even, but a little of the juice from the pickled beets, some ground up ginger, a little soy sause and just a dash of olive oil. Boy was it good.
We are still picking green beans like crazy and checking the blooms we too will have them for maybe another few weeks or maybe a month (hopefull) but nothing like yours.
Nita I only planted half the amount of rows for green beans this year had canned green beans left over from last year. Hard for me to downsize when there are only 2 of us at home now. DS comes to eat but it is nothing like when he lived here. I should have a total of 30 quarts this year down from my usual 50 quarts. If I don't hit the 30 quarts that will be OK with me this year. Now my tomato products that is a different story I'm totally out of all tomato products from last year. When my maters start turning I won't have time to post on CD I'll be up to my elbows in canning maters. I cook a lot of meals to take to neighbors, shut-ins and elderly folks we know too. They all enjoy the freshness of my canned products when I make them a meal.
Here's a cucumber link I found y'all had me curious as to what I might be missing out on with cukes.
My garden is FINALLY taking off! The tomatoes are looking good and have gotten bushy. The zukes and hubbard squash are going like crazy. We picked a huge bag of peas and broccoli this week. Everything else is looking good too. FINALLY!
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