Spring Planting Update

Here are a few pictures from our backyard urban gardening efforts:

We planted garlic in a bed around the perimeter of our deck in late-October 2012.
At this point we ahve 29 shoots of garlic well established and a few more developing.

The bulbs were covered with 4 inches of mulch.
We had lots of snow, but the garlic is doing well.

Strawberries in containers.
The stawberries were mulched for over-wintering.

Strawberries

We're are not currently growing strawberries in our personal garden, but we definitely enjoy eating them!  We plan to add them to our growing plan for next year, but in the meantime we buy them from local growers. The CSA Farm we're members of also has a U-Pick option for hydroponic strawberries.

Here's a picture of a flat of locally grown Florida strawberries that Linda recently purchased.  For those who might know how many strawberries it takes to make a "flat"...it's 6 pints.

It's a lot for two people to eat in one or two days, but a few years ago we purchased a vacuum sealer which comes in handy for freezing strawberries. 

I sense an evening treat of vanilla ice cream topped with strawberries in the near future.