Last Monday was the first sunshiney day we'd had in a long time. There was so much on my garden to-do list that I had to choose only the few things I knew could be finished in one day. The rain returned the next day . Sigh.
A couple of days a week Roger and I watch our 2 year old and 4 year old granddaughters, so we had extra helpers in the garden that day. Savannah helped Grandpa make frames for the strawberry boxes that will hold up the crop protection cloth now and the bird netting later in the season.
Roger pieced these together with pipe leftover from the hoop house we're making. They turned out really well. With the cloth in place the strawberries will ripen over a month early. And when the weather warms up I'll replace the cloth with some bird netting. This year the strawberries will be mine! (Last year the birds got my first crop of berries. I had noticed that the berries were getting big and juicy and figured that I should get them covered up soon. I headed to my local Lowe's to get some netting and by the time I got back home most of the berries were gone.)
Strawberry season here we come!
I want your help with my yard/garden. You have so many amazing ideas. Better for me to start learning from my mommy and doing late... rather than never. Let's just not use the word domesticated... I'm not sure I could live up to that definition.
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