We have been spending a lot of family time on the allotment this spring, which has been wonderful, BUT, usually as I used to go alone, I always got first dibs on the ripening fruits and maturing veg...the first pod of peas, the first peppery radish, or the first sugar sweet giant strawberry. Hmph! ( photo / image / picture from EJ's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from EJ's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from EJ's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from EJ's Garden ) Good job she is my little angel....I wouldn't have let anyone else have it before me.
I'd rather have your daughter munching my fruit than the birds around here. I have to almost sit by the bushes to fend them off when the berries ripen!! I have a feeling your young 'un enjoyed that first strawberry as much as you would have. I hope you managed to get the second one.
I agree with Deanna .... family time is a great thing! Before you know it, they'll be married with kids of their own.
That huge strawb is remarkable. I have to say though, it looks like it could have been left on the plant a little longer. I reckon that you are like me though and just can't wait for that first one. heh heh heh.--Delicious!
Can't decide which is cuter... the "greedy baby" or that 1st strawberry. I bet you're proud of both of them!
Cute pics! AAAAHHHH, strawberries. Yesterday after work, instead of weeding, enjoying my little flower garden I was picking strawberries. 3 BIG buckets. And only covered like 1/4 of the entire lot. MOM AND DAD too busy with other things. This is what I hate. They always have SOOO much work to do that they need HELP. DAD "we should do something about the strawberries. They are going bad fast. We should pick them." SO the entire spring, they looked after them, put manure by each plant, weeded... and now when it's time to harvest - I HAVE TO DO IT! Oh well... was easy work. But still sometimes I just don't get things!
I don't Calin... I think I'd rather pick them than tend to them. That way you can eat them first. Yummmm... freshly picked strawberries! All this strawberry talk is making me wish I had more than just a few little plants!
Yes Sjoerd, it could have probably gone another day or 2, but she couldn't wait. We have spent a lot of family time on the allotment this spring, the kids are in charge of lunch, so they fire up the BBQ, cook sausages and pick onion greens and salad to accompany them. It lets Mark and I get on with jobs and it keeps them entertained. Raspberry picking and pea picking are also favourites in the next few weeks, and then spud digging. Gotta love growing your own.
Man, that sounds like fun. It is always so good to hear that kids are taking gardening seriously and doing family things. I agree--nothing beats growing your own.
What a cute baby, and a cute story too. I think I'd have to frame those four pictures as a series to look at whenever I need a laugh. Love the smile on her face in the first pic.
Congrats on that lovely-looking strawberry. It couldn't have been eaten by anyone sweeter, could it. Calin, I'd help you pick that strawberry patch, but I don't need any buckets.
