i was out on the north side of the yard turning over a bed for squash in an area where i had placed some of the new york imports last year...there was a bed of teosinte there last year and between those eight foot plants and the russian olive behind them i had thought the strawberries would have been shaded out..i had pulled the teosinte plants out last autumn when they died back which reopened the bed to more sunlight which may have had an impact...
because i found six of the imports alive and well...
the largest of them is blooming...
the smallest plant is clearly a daughter of the largest one and is still establishing itself...however three of the six have produced stolons this spring and i believe that i will not interfere with these...there is enough space there to allow them to expand their range and they can cohabit with the zucchini, if , indeed, the squash prospers there...so adding these plants and stolons in with...
the reproductive frenzy in the east bed, and...
the four stolons the plants on the south side have produced, Jean has eleven "tough little plants" and, for the moment, sixteen daughters on the way...
and any number of berries cooking away too...more season than we might have expected...i don't hear anyone compalining...just concerned about where we will put them all.
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