The people that got us through

Literally! D's mom was over yesterday and she did a little walk around my garden and when she came back in she said she tasted one of my strawberries. I knew there were a few that were getting ripe, but I had no clue how many. I have 2 kinds of strawberries planted. An everbearing and a June bearing. Obviously the June bearings are getting ripe. My strawberry patch is like my little baby. All organic, mostly well tended (I have some leftover grass to pull) and growing like leaps and bounds. I started with 25 starts of each variety. Well in the 2 years the everbearings have grown to probably 200 plants and the Junes are producing a bumper crop! Last year I was able to eek out 9 jars of strawberry jam, hopefully this year I will be able to double that. That is if I can keep D from eating them. He was so disgusted last year when I would pick giant bowlfuls and they would go straight into the freezer.

So for you viewing pleasure here is my first harvest. The bowl on the right are the everbearings the one on the left are the june bearings. I will probably get 1 or 2 more bowls of Junes and then that size of bowl every 2 days of Evers the rest of the summer.
Oh, I apologize for the lack of blogroll on the sidebar, for any of you who may navigate through my site. Evidently it looks like Tucows (the makers of Blogrolling) have changed the format of their site and Blogrolling is no more. Of course this could be a case of "I'm Dumb," but I don't think so. Either way I am working on putting all of the links back and in a handy new Elle organized fashion!