Beginning of the bounty
It’s strawberry season.
We have 12 beds of strawberries: two rectangular beds of ever-bearing, and ten large tires of June-bearing.
For weeks, we’ve been eagerly waiting for these little vitamin C bombs to ripen. For the past several days, we’ve been teased with the occasional ripe one.
I thought I was going to have to net the strawberry beds, when I started seeing the occasional half-eaten berry on the ground.
This is because last year, our strawberry crop was decimated by hundreds of industrious chipmunks.
This year I literally haven’t seen any chipmunks in the strawberries. There are a few around, but not enough to worry about. Chipmunk populations, it appears, fluctuate. The culprits, as it turns out, are the chickens, who manage to slip into the garden once in awhile. So far they’re not being too greedy, so I won’t worry about netting since I can do so any time.
The weather and temperatures have been whiplashing around in typical spring fashion, but now we’re in for a hot spell…
…so last night I told Younger Daughter we should go pick strawberries very early, before it got too hot.
Like spring rubies, eh?
We ended up with 5.75 lbs.
I’ve decided to start a tally to determine how much we harvest over the season.
Lihn enjoyed her share…
…and I hulled and froze the rest. This is just the beginning of the wonderful strawberry bounty.
Source: http://www.rural-revolution.com/2016/06/beginning-of-bounty.html
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