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Gardening

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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4. Ours are just starting to come on, so I've only got a half pint or so so far.

Reply to DirtyHippyBastard (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2015, 12:11 PM

May 2015

But I also just ate the first cherry off the tree and picked a few cherries off the bush cherry. The bush ones are tart, so they'll be used with sugar in one way or another. Not a lot of slug damage so far this year, and the birds have only gotten a couple, but the beagles have taken to treating the strawberry beds as a self-serve bar.

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First picking of "Mara Des Bois" strawberries [View all] DirtyHippyBastard May 2015 OP

They look GREAT, DHB! elleng May 2015 #1

Nice. I have been experimenting with pulling various weeds, brewing a tea jtuck004 May 2015 #2

Is that a rolled out groundcover under the beds? DirtyHippyBastard May 2015 #3

The crabgrass here is amazing - I can't keep it out, just have to empty and refill a bed. jtuck004 May 2015 #5

Ours are just starting to come on, so I've only got a half pint or so so far. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #4

They look delicious GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #6

The third and forth quarts DirtyHippyBastard Jun 2015 #7