We started a few new projects today. The first was to get the strawberries in a "happy place." This means, we want to just pick and eat strawberries. We don't want to do lots of work, weed, or worry about rotten berries. We just want to eat them! Some of them, we might want to dip into chocolate (thanks for some great ideas, Pinterest!). But, we don't want them to be a lot of work. Something I've read about strawberries is that they don't like touching the dirt. They rot faster, according to the books. So, Mackenzie spent a couple of hours today mulching our berries. This year, we used shredded paper, soaked in water for a while.
We have loads of blossoms, and some little berries, too! It's going to be fun to see what we get this year. We've also been selling our berries! I'm so excited to say that we've made $110 from berry sales, and we've almost outfitted Mackenzie for the upcoming hockey season.
Out other project that we're working on is taking care of a planter around a big pine tree in our yard. This tree has a cinder block ring around it with hostas and lilies. It was very difficult to weed around, and the lilies were choking most other plants out. So, we decided to use the cinder blocks in another place, and clean up the bed. I think we're just going to mow there, now.
If you check out earlier posts in my blog, you'll see some pictures of our shade garden project. There is a picture right after we brought in the black dirt. We hadn't even planted anything yet. I thought I'd share an "after" picture that I took today. Tim even stopped and commented that he thought it looked pretty good.
I'll leave you with some pictures of our beautiful blossoms that we're enjoying. The irises are in full blossom, and we have Clematis blooms!
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