Spring!

A few new pictures around my yard. I have seeds springing! Here are my baby basil and swiss chard. I also have coleus (an ornamental plant) coming up. I just put in some tomato seeds a few days ago.

There's a story on my swiss chard. It's a green. But I've never eaten it before. I have no idea what it tastes like. When I was a kid. We would get seed catalogs in the mail. Mom and Dad never really bought any thing from them. But they were fun to look at. The "exotic" plants always got my attention. And I would tease my parents to buy them.

"Mom! Mom! Get the 3 foot beans, get the hollow tomatoes, you can stuff them!" No deal.

We would get the same boring (But yummy) vegetables every year.

When I went shopping a few weeks ago, I looked at the seed packets. And I saw the "Bright Lights, rainbow of colors" variety of swiss chard. Swiss chard has a stem, almost like rubarb. I believe it's normally white. This comes in yellow, orange and hot pink!

I smiled. It was a dollar a packet and I knew I had to buy them.

I have strawberries! Last month, my husband and I went to the Strawberry Festival at Plant City. And I bought a hanging basket. These are berries #4 and 5.

I was so excited when my first berry started to turn pink. I called it my 7 dollar strawberry. (What I paid for the plant)

It was almost ready to pick. I decided it needed another day of sunshine. I went out the next morning to take a picture of it. And it was gone!

Something stole my $7 strawberry! I think a bird got it. The stem was neatly snipped off. If any more berries come up missing, I'll get some netting to wrap around the basket.

Here is one of the flower pots given to me by a neighbor. I put it by my front porch.

I planted dianthus and dusty millers in it.

You can also see my pink azalias.