Victory over critters in my backyard! I beat them to the first strawberry of the year! This morning I spotted a red-ripe, untouched strawberry from one of the 3 little plants that are growing in a flower bed, and picked it. I was thrilled to pop it in my mouth and savor the sweetness, instead of having to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gardening'
First Strawberries
April 28th, 2011 · No Comments · California, Conejo Valley, Green, Outdoors, Ventura County
Got Your Plouts and Apriums in the Ground Yet?
January 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Well, neither do I! I just found out about them yesterday, reading a Green Thumb Nursery ad in the Ventura version of the VC Star. I read that a plout is a plum-apricot hybrid, and an aprium is an apricot-plum hybrid. Actually, this information, which was all there was in the ad, confused me even more. What [...]
