Re:growing strawberries and Anne

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Hi Anne,

Wow, you have a lot of plants!

next year I will do strawberries, my daughter loves them!

Do you have any advise for me?

hugs,

Chanda

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" jandemommy " <jandemommy

 

Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:28 PM

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> Chanda,

>

> I live in dead center of rural Iowa : ). Where we live things are

> few and far between. I did have a strange encounter at our local

> library this morning though. I have been busy checking out all the

> back issues of Vegetarian Times and picked up a few issues of

> Organic Gardening and one of the patrons asked me if I was familiar

> with the Moosewood cookbooks. They are one of my favorite series of

> cookbooks and she proceeded to tell me she had eaten at the

> Moosewood restaurent in NY and one of her favorite cookbook authors

> was Mollie Katzen. I think by then my mouth might have been hanging

> open as our town is about 200 people total and nobody is familiar

> with veg cooking at all. It was kind of cool.

>

> I don't have much room for gardening but currently we have 12

> raspberry plants, 10 tomato plants (we only planted 2-rest

> volunteer), 2 green pepper plants, some butternut squash which has 2

> good-sized squash and one new baby, and a large rhubarb patch. I

> would like to do some container gardening so I can turn the back

> patch into an all-berry patch next summer. I would love to put in

> strawberries and either blackberries or blueberries. Our total back

> patch is probably 12'x12' with no room to go elsewhere. I would like

> to see about a getting a share in one of our local CSA groups for

> some more unusual vegetables I don't have access too. I would also

> like to grow my own herbs but haven't had much good luck with it--

> anyone have any tips?

>

> Thankfully I like to cook and experiment. Hubby isn't likely to

> change but it won't matter much for next few years anyway, he is

> leaving for a long deployment in about 2 weeks and I am not making

> mealtime an issue at all. Plus he needs to eat what meat is left in

> the freezer and then the rest will likely go to a family at church

> that can use it. So right now I am doing streamlined cooking--a

> veggie dish with a serving of meat on the side for him and calling

> it good. He did like the bean burgers I made out of the current

> issue of Vegetarian Times so I think when he gets back I can get

> away with some all-veg suppers and have him cook anything extra he

> wants. But the next 2 years I can get the kids and myself into good

> eating habits so it becomes second-nature. Then it won't be so

> difficult when he returns : ).

>

> Thanks for the warm welcome : ). Take care : )..........

>

>

> Anne

>