The first strawberry of the year. And I still have eleven apples left in my refrigerated hoarding chamber! Although I've decided that my collection of apples is not hoarding at all. When people of yore (and homesteading hipsters of today) preserved and canned and filled their root cellars with turnips and rutabagas, it was not called hoarding, it was called trying to survive winter. I
isn't it "hoarding"?
ReplyDeleteYou're hired, Anonymous!
ReplyDeleteThese next few days will not disappoint weather wise!
ReplyDelete"Hoarding" those apples seemed to do the trick! Summer is here and you're still around, thankfully! By the way, if eating all eleven apples becomes too much for one bl*g mistress lemme know, 'cuz I'm a guy who can eat some apples...or turn 'em into a pie!!
ReplyDeleteExplain to me, how it can be that you were still having snow about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and now you're showing off strawberries while we, who are having the earliest summer on record are still not having strawberries?
ReplyDeleteThey certainly aren't disappointing, Moj, though our power has been out, and I'm liking the heat a lot less without that central A/C I usually complain about.
ReplyDeleteMatt LaBee, if I'd known all it would took to get you to make a pie was a supply of apples, I would have shared my "hoard" with you months ago!
DED, we had both a very late winter *and* a very early summer, if that makes any sense. But I think our May berries are thanks to hoop houses -- I had strawberries at just about this time last year, too.
ah. Hoop houses. And here I was being a purist thinking of outdoor berries. :-)
ReplyDeleteThey're sort of half in-/half-outdoor berries (the hoop houses are unheated), and this purist cannot tell the difference between the hoop-house berries I'm eating now and the field berries I'll be eating soon. Or maybe it's absence that makes these early berries taste so sweet?
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of hoop houses, I've been buying mine from Adam's Berry Farm. One of his hoop houses was raised earlier this year by a "crop mob," a cool idea you can read about and see photos of here.