Strawberry foliage with leafspot disease . . . In mid-summer, the strawberry patch can look pretty bad. Leaf spot diseases take hold, especially in a year with alternating flooded and dry periods – like this year. In the past, when my strawberry plant foliage looked really bad, I just lopped it off and new leaves [...]

Strawberry shortcake – the dessert I dream about nine months of the year, and consume as often as possible the other three! This is a photo of the shortcake I enjoyed last night, using berries from our new strawberry patch. We started the rather large strawberry garden last summer. It is an oval shape, about [...]

Last year at this time, my daughter decided that she had outgrown her swing set. We listed the swing set on Craig’s list, and a young family came out, dismantled the set and took it away. I was ecstatic – a new place to plant stuff! I decided to use the space to grow things [...]