the wild strawberry plants Jean and i ordered from saratoga seed company ( first three photos ) arrived in the mail yesterday and i went out right after i got home from the garden to plant them...i prepared one bed along the north end of the yard by the mashua, onions, and some teosinte and planted four of the twelve plants there ( fourth through seventh )...the plan is to utilize the open space there as a nursery to grow daughter plants to spread around..a second bed went in along the bed of spuds ( eighth ) nest to a patch of the indigenous berries ( ninth and tenth )...i planted three more in the bed with the potted stolon from a few posts ago and another two by the chinese yam...a dozen hardey ( the planting instructions call them "tough" like the one in the last photo...the hope is to establish daughter plants and provide more genetic diversity through cross breeding...something i have never tried before...it is, it seems, time to learn.
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