The start of a strawberry bed!

Eric & Dash constructed a raised bed for strawberries.  A divider was created so I didn’t have to fill the whole bed right away … and there was just enough soil mix for the number of plants that I purchased at the annual year-end box sale.  The plants were whipped by the wind for a couple days and the heat was also hard on the transplants (they were planted in JUNE! – it’s just been hectic around here), so it looks as though I may have lost a couple.  However, the strong plants are already sending out runners.    Little by little …

The rest of the garden is okay.  The tomatoes on the right are doing well – not as good as last year, but they’ll produce enough.  The cukes are doing amazingly well.  I haven’t raised them for a few years, so it’s been fun.  The eggplants are also doing very well and already have a couple nice sized purple eggplants growing under the leaves.

 

 

This week, the kids and I laid down Roc cloth in the pathways between the SFG’s.  It’s supposed to be durable, yet let water through.  The durable part is questionable, but at least it’ll keep weeds out for the rest of the year.

 

This is a bit of what’s been harvested on the farm (I say farm because the strawberries are from Grandma & Grandpa Green Acres).  A few grape tomatoes, a cuke, a jalapeno pepper and three green peppers.

 

** Doesn’t my fake lawn look nice in pictures??  It’s actually just weeds, but you’d never know … if I hadn’t just reminded you!**