Posted by neotoma on 2013-05-07 23:26:03 UTC and edited at 2019-05-27 22:22:38 UTC
PermalinkI had the first tiny strawberry of the season today! I'm looking forward to many more.
Also, I transplanted a lot of seedlings into the community garden today: 2 cucumbers, 3 green beans, 2 tongue-of-fire beans, an ornamental sweet potato, and an artichoke.
I also scattered some lettuce seed, sowed trenches for radish, carrot, and parsnip seeds, and planted more green beans, tongue-of-fire beans, and several sunflowers.
We'll see what takes.
And I transplanted one of my alpine strawberries into a bigger pot, which means that eventually I'll have a lot of big strawberry pots.
My serviceberry bushes looked a bit yellow today. I'll drop some leaf compost on them, but if anyone knows more about what they need, I'd love to hear it.
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\o/ strawberries!
Is serviceberry in our system? Should we add it to the list?
I have so many strawberry plants now… like, nine of them? Half regular strawberries, half alpines, all delicious.
The serviceberry is edible, and I didn't see any of its relatives, so yes, I'd love to see it added. My serviceberry bushes are ostensibly the Canadian serviceberry, not the saskatoon, but the Amelanchiers hybridize worse than ducks, so who knows how accurate that description is. Also, I don't know all the common names it goes under, so it might be under a common name I'm not familiar with, but I don't think so.