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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSB who wrote (907)	6/3/2000 2:13:00 AM
From: MSB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

About a year ago, I asked if anyone grew strawberries, and if so, had a few questions. No one did (or acknowledged doing so), but Annette was kind enough to post some info she got from another web site. I followed the recommendations as best I could, and this year, I'VE GOT STRAWBERRIES! Yahoo!!! I planted three varieties: Ozark Everbearing, Cardinal, and Honeyoye. Of the three, the Ozark Everbearing are the sweetest, but also the smallest. The Cardinal is a bit larger than the Ozark, but not as sweet. The Honeyoye is a larger fruit (most of the berries are easily as big as a man's thumb), but are the least for taste. As a matter of fact, the Honeyoyes are down right tasteless as far as I'm concerned. And no problems with the critters because they're enclosed in an 8 x 8 raised bed enclosed with chicken wire with 4 x 8 doors hinged on the sides which close in the middle. Very easy to get at the entire patch the way I constructed the bed. Annette, a hearty, albeit belated, THANK YOU!! ---------------------------------- And I completed enclosing my garden with, you guessed it, chicken wire on five sides. I'm sure it looks quite the sight and would, understandably, get quite a snicker. But it was the best solution for the "live and let live" principle. I think I might just take a couple of green tomatoes and attach them to the inside of the cage to spite the squirrels. Got cucumbers, tomatoes (Beefsteak, Rutgers, Better Boy, and Jet Star), green beans, green peppers, (damn Kandy Corn doesn't want to grow very well for some reason), and have been picking lots of sugar snap peas. By golly, I've finally got a garden again, and this year, I'll even get to eat what grows in it!! ------------------------------------- From the June/July issue of Birds & Blooms a cartoon many I'll bet can identify with. Pg. 59 shows a squirrel holding up a sign on the other side of a picture window with the words "Bird Feeders Empty". Love it!