An Unexpected Bounty of Strawberries

Lo’ and behold August and I were hoeing the garden to plant some watermelon seeds when we had to double take what we were scraping up. To my surprise there were Strawberry plants growing 25 feet away from my Strawberry Patch. As far as I can tell a squirrel must have sat on the fence eating some strawberries last year and seeded the area with more strawberries. Time to move the plants down to the existing patch.

An unexpected bounty of Strawberry plants.

So many plants. must be at least 2 dozen of them.

The gut wrenching moment when you dig up plants and hope they make it through the move.

13 new strawberry plants in the patch! More to be moved as well but first lets see if these take.

Now with the plethora of strawberries “planted” time to work on the Watermelons. On the scale of snacks it goes #1 Apples, #2 Watermelon and #3 Cherries. I prefer to hoe the planting area to get any existing grass and weeds removed. Followed by digging up the rows using a shovel followed by tilling the turned dirt to get a nice loose bed to plant in.

Prepping the rows takes a combination of digging and tilling.

Sugar Baby Watermelons in the ground. Now we cross our fingers, water and wait.

This garden is looking relatively orderly… from this angle

After any new work: weeding, planting, watering I have to take a minute to see if anything is pushing its way to the open air. In this walk-about the peas and melons are starting to peak through.