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Old 04/25/14, 01:44 PM
 
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I have never had much luck with sb's, until now. Last year, I bought two beautiful sb plants that are a variety I hadn't seen before, that have deep rose colored blooms. I really only bought them for the flowers, and tucked them into one of the raised bed veggie beds.

Well those two just took off, started shooting out runners! The flowers on the baby plants are white though. Anyway, they pretty much took over the 5x10 foot bed, without us even trying.

The first picking:

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This is such a joy for us!!!!!!!!!

oooopss, mods could you move this to CS families? I didn't realized I was in ht questions......sorry.
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Old 04/25/14, 01:53 PM
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Yum! What will you make with those berries?
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Old 04/25/14, 01:57 PM
 
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Trailrider-lots of slurping sounds.........
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Old 04/25/14, 02:27 PM
 
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Puree' very ripe berries in blender. Dry into a leather. Roll up and store in freezer. When ready to use; unroll, spread cream cheese on leather. Roll up, cut into 1 in bites.
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Old 04/25/14, 03:17 PM
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I can't believe some of you have strawberries already! Mine are just giving thought to peeking out through the mulch.
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Old 04/25/14, 03:28 PM
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Good for you! I bet you are excited!

I planted a ton of strawberries for the first time this year and about half survived our insane winter. I've never grown strawberries (I kind of always assumed they were too hard to do and they would take up far too much space) but I'm anxiously awaiting our season. We have a gazillion flowers and teeny tiny berries, too. Yay for strawberries!
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Old 04/25/14, 05:52 PM
 
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I am so jealous right now! The last of the snow in the garden has finally melted, if I'm lucky I might be able to have fresh picked strawberries by early July. Oh, what I wouldn't do to taste a fresh picked one today!
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Old 04/25/14, 07:12 PM
 
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I'm sorry for all you winter-bound folks. We do enjoy the weather here that's for sure. My broccoli is bolting though, cuz we got some super hot days, one I remember it was 90 in the shade. That's too hot even for us. But early springs are nice, long growing season, well, til Oct. 15 th on average is the first frost.

Sandra those sound so yummy!
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Old 04/25/14, 08:17 PM
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That's a beautiful sight!! Thanks for sharing that, because it makes me just that much more excited for summer.
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Old 04/26/14, 06:44 PM
 
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Nice, large berries! I started with 25 plants a couple of years ago and they have spread and spread and spread Loaded with blooms and green berries right now.

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