Strawberries, starting seeds, and other Spring updates
Spring is here! Some of the tulips we planted in January are starting to pop up! I was starting to think they were going to be a no show, so it was a very exciting find. We also planted some strawberries and found one of the biggest earthworms I’ve ever seen. Last fall I cut the runners off of my strawberries and planted those into buckets of dirt. I wasn’t too sure where they would go in the spring so we put the buckets next to the house with a bunch of leaves over them to protect them. We made sure that they stayed wet through the winter and had to water them a few times. They seemed to survive well so I went ahead and moved them to their new spot today. They are going around a couple of Plout trees and a Shipova pear tree. I'm hoping they'll fill out this year to create a nice border around this bed. The bed is also right along a main path to the veggie garden, so it will be a perfect spot to grab a snack. To plant these I dug up the grass, used a pitch fork to aerate t
