I was just out in the garden and picked 1.658 kilos of strawberries. That’s over 3.5 pounds of strawberries! And the good news is, there’s going to be a whole lot more over the next couple of weeks.
What are we going to do with all these berries? Well, I’m planning to make pound cake on Friday and will top it with fresh strawberries and whipped cream for dessert. And I seem to recall a really good muffin/bread recipe I made a few times last year. Plus we’d love to make some strawberry wine with them…but I’m not sure if we’ll have enough. We still have about 2 kilos of strawberries in our freezer from last year and could always buy more – but we’re clearly going to need to grow more strawberries next year! The good news is that they are incredibly hardy, they need very little attention and it would seem that most of the bugs hate the neem oil treatments we’ve been giving the plants about once a week because most of the fruits hadn’t been touched by slugs or ants – which was one of our major problems last year.
What have you harvested so far this year? All of you in the South, I don’t want to hear about it. You know who you are. Picking tomatoes in February and lemons from your own trees in March…no, I really don’t want to know. 😉
See our running tally of everything harvested in 2009 on the page In the Garden.
All I have harvested (here in the South) is leaf lettuce. We didn’t go pick strawberries this year as time just got away from us. I do have lots of blooms and berries setting on my Elderberry bush and raspberry canes.
Most of the people I read are already harvesting and we just started growing!! I have strawberries and got one tiny little (penny sized) berry and that is it. We are in NH but I can’t help feeling like we are behind!!
Hi Tiffany! Its nice to “meet” you. I am trying to be patient but seriously everything is still in the seedling stage as far as the garden with the exception of the potatoes. If things dont hurry and do well, we will be revising our plan for next year.
Lisa
I’ve eaten one red strawberry, though there are more coming (we just planted the plants this spring, so I’m thrilled with the amount we are getting!), and we’ve been eating peas of the vine like crazy. I think my 5-year-old spent an hour outside yesterday just eating peas (and throwing the pods to the chickens).
Tiny blueberries are starting to form, and the fruit on the peach trees are getting bigger, I also saw the beginnings of raspberries on the raspberry canes.
Tiffany, we are in southern Virginia. The strawberries around here are about done…. though peaches and blueberries are in the near future!
Thanks Tiffany, I need all the help I can get.
Tiffany- It’s nice to be read! I’ve been keeping up with your posts through my feed reader, but haven’t clicked over to comment. With the kids finishing school for summer, life seems to have gotten extra busy.
I love all the pictures of your farm! I’m sure all the projects are a ton of work, but it’s the kind of work I love!