This is good. In fact, this is exactly what self-sufficiency is all about. Three years ago now we bought half a dozen strawberry plants and put them in at one end of the plot.
They weren’t a great success, admittedly. From memory we only got 24 berries in total, which was disappointing at the time. Nonetheless we left them in the plot and they came back last year. The harvest was excellent, and we were eating the most juicy, tasty strawberries every, every night of the week for about a month. It was great.
Going out to check on the plants today I see that we could be in for the same this year, too. The plants are tall and strong and while half are covered in the bold white flowers that will eventually turn into fruit, the rest are already producing little green berries, complete with seeds and hairs.
A preview of what we have to look forward to in the next month or so. And the best thing about it is that this year they won’t cost us anything at all. We haven’t bought any plants, we’ll be harvesting rainwater to keep them moist, and we won’t pay a penny for our desserts for a month.
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Very exciting! Sometimes it seems costly to purchase plants and set up a garden, but if you do things right, the harvest will indeed be free in years to come.