Some of the strawberries

Here are some of the strawberries I have gotten this year.  I lost at least half of my plants over the winter, but have harvested more strawberries this year than I have in the past several years.

This is the second batch picked on 6-7.  The little kids ate the first batch (half-a-bowl) before I could take a picture.

 

A week later on 6-14, I picked these.

Garden Update

I can hardly believe it is June 6th.  I thought I had posted picture earlier in the year, but I guess I haven't.  I have been a terrible blogger.  Now it is time to do better, so here is the gardening news.

These are Isis Candy cherry tomatoes that I started indoors from seed on February 3.  I kept putting them into larger pots until they were outgrowing the gallon pots.  They sprouted faster than I was expecting and got leggy, so I planted them up to the fist set of true leaves on the first transplant into a larger pot.  I took them outdoors and back in for several weeks to get them acclimated to the outdoors.  Every time they were almost ready to plant it got down to freezing.  Finally on May 29 I planted them outside.  They were starting to die in the pots and needed transplanting again. 

Here is another view of the Isis Candy tomato plants.

Planted potatoes on March 2.  Some of them froze three times.  This group was the worst.  I watered one day and they froze that night, so they looked really bad the next morning.  Potatoes are tough.  They keep coming back.

 Found a little potato in the ground a month ago, so I planted it in a pot.

These are Walla Walla onions in the front half.  They were sick little onion starts that I planted March 2.  The back half is big German Red Garlic that I planted the same day.  Garlic should be planted in the fall.  It is only available in the nurseries in the spring and onions and garlic can no longer be sent to Nevada from the seed catalog companies.  I planted most of it and used a few pieces to cook with.  I like the flavor of this one.  Hope it does good.

This is what is left of the lettuce that was planted last fall.  The ones on the left edge (side and front) are transplant form seeds I started in the house on Jan 5.

I have spent the last 3 weeks moving my raspberries.  They were behind the fruit trees and get too much shade and don't produce very well any more.  Most of them seem to have taken the transplanting well.

My poor peach tree is almost dead.  It couldn't hold all the weight last year and broke in many places.  It is a semi-dwarf and about 17 years old, so it is about done producing anyway.

Here is what is left of the garlic I planted in August last year.  A lot of it got eaten by who-knows-what.  I did cover it all Winter when I found it eaten to the ground.  Now I see something is laying in there.  A lot of smashed plants.  Probably the cat.  I have smashed clumps of daffodils on the other side of the yard too.  The back half is carrots that I started about 1 month ago.  I didn't cover them until about 2 weeks ago.  I see a few starting to germinate.  I'm thinking that most of the seeds were probably eaten by the birds.