New plant

This morning I walked by a store selling strawberry plants and I just couldn't resist! They were only 3 euros each, and looked much better than my plant.

I feel like I'm being somewhat unfaithful to my older plant... :P

Bye bye strawberries

Yesterday we finally got to eat the two strawberries. This is what they looked like just seconds before their end ;)


I guess we won't get any more strawberries, hopefully the plant will survive and next year give us some more. They were yummy!

Berry watch

A picture of the tiny teeny small ugly strawberry (fingers for perspective - contrary to what this picture shows, I have small proportionate fingers... it's just a really tiny berry!).


And one of the strawberry we just discovered today! Could it be that we didn't see this one? Or has it grown in 3 days? I don't know, but it's about twice the size of the other one. I can't wait for it to be ripe.

The beginning

On Saturday we bought our first herbs & edible plants.

Mint and basil for my window. I love the smell of mint, and basil supposedly keeps flies away.

We also bought a strawberry plant (that came with a wonderful strawberry - that my dog ate before I could even take a picture!). There's still a small tiny white/green strawberry that will hopefully grow so I can taste it too.
I read somewhere that strawberries can really take over the place if you let them, so we put it on a smallish pot. But I hope it grows and we can have more strawberry plants.
I love all sorts of berries, so I'd love to get some other kinds too...

Some sweet corn, that apparently we shouldn't have planted in rows and now I'll have to pollinate myself. Don't know how, though.

We also got some red lettuce and tomatoes (I don't like either, so I'm not paying much attention to those) and some lemon verbena (that apparently reminds my mom of her childhood).