Hello, steemians, and welcome to my garden, eh!
Yesterday, I wrote a post about my strawberry patch, and how the strawberries were ready to pick. Today, the weather was cooperative, so I picked the first batch of strawberries this afternoon. There were a few berries that were over ripe, and a few that the bugs had eaten holes in, but there were plenty more for me to pick. I filled up my colander before I got the first side picked, and had to get a big bowl to finish picking. I think I got a pretty good haul for my first picking. I picked all the ripe ones and all of the almost ripe ones. I figured the bugs already got enough of them, they don't start eating the berries until they're almost ripe. Here's what I got.
I had to wash the dirt off a few of them because of the rain, but it's always good to wash them anyway. Then I separated the ripe and bug damaged berries from the almost ripe berries and cut all the ripe and bug damaged berries in half to prepare them for cooking down for strawberry sauce.
After I cooked them down for a while, I have a nice strawberry sauce that I can use to make jam or just use on ice cream. I still have another bowl of berries to process in a couple days when they're more ripe.
I'm pretty sure that I'll have to pick the berries again in a few days when more of them get ripe. There's a lot of green and half ripe berries on the plants. The strawberry patch is doing really well so far this year.
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Yummy! It's good to see you're not letting anything go to waste.
Thanks!
yum!
Have you been affected by those flash floods up there in Yooperland? I saw some photos/videos on Facebook and they were something else! I once was considering moving to the Keweenaw, so it was a bit of a shock. (I'd still consider the area, but my hubby doesn't like the snow as much as me.)
We got a lot of rain in the Iron Mountain area, but not nearly as much as they got up by Houghton. We didn't have any serious problems here, just the usual pond in the alley.
I'd like to spend the summer in Mohawk, north of Houghton, and the winter in Tucson, AZ :-)
I'm glad that you fared a bit better. I'm familiar Iron Mountain too - at least from a research/map point of view. So far, I've only barely made it into Yooperland when I lived in Wisconsin (Madison).
Apparently, I had a relative (wife of great-uncle or something like that) who grew up in Calumet.
Snow in Wyoming is irritating. We don't get to keep it - it all just blows away... But you still get the disruption. And get to plow as much as you do in Yooperland. On the plus side, the sculptures the wind makes are much like sand dunes and very pretty.
Those berries look super tasty, I'd love if you save some for me <3 would definitely apreciate it, I hope you have more great harvests.
noms all da berries
LOL :-)
Nice haul! I'm still waiting for my stupid raspberry bushes to do something productive. They're still trying to fill in with green leaves; the previous winter really did a number on them.
I understand that, my raspberry patch kept getting visits by the rabbits in the winter, they would eat the top of canes and I wouldn't get berries from them that year. I had to fence them in for the winter to keep the rabbits out of them.