Tasty Treats From The Garden

Sequoia Strawberries and

Arugula and a handful of bush beans.  It is just the start on the bush beans, I hope.

Sequoia Strawberries

  Photos of our Sequoia strawberries that we have growing in a strawberry container.  We have reflective tape to help keep the birds away.

 So far it seems this maybe the way to grow them for us.  We have a small patch and are going them directing in the ground.  Something is picking at them.  Maybe pillbug or crickets.

 They look so beautiful if in the container, little red jewels.

Sequoia Strawberries

I have a correction to make.  I think I mentioned that I was growing Alpine strawberries.  No, I am growing SEQUOIA!  I  no idea where I got that mix up.  I know there is a variety of Alpine but I'm not growing them.  Oops.

These are the first of the season for us.  I surprised how early they are producing.  But, in Southern California, we have mild winters, most of the time.

Hubby did clean up this area where we are going them.  It was pretty crowed.  They shoot of a lot of starter plants.  We started this patch in 2016, end of the season. 2017  was a pretty good year for them.

I added the to my yogurt.  They are so sweet!

 We also had some plants in a wine barrel container and they did really well in it, but the barrel was getting old and we thought it was a better to transfer them into Strawberry containers.  I hope they will do well and the birds keep away from them.

 The ones that are growing in the patch, need to be protected from the pillbug and other insects that like them also.  I try to prop them up on the leaves of the plants.  Some light gauged fencings (chicken wire) may work.  Make little props for them.

I hope they will do well again this year.  They look so beautiful.