Hello, steemians, and welcome to my garden, eh!
Yesterday, I wrote a post about my strawberry patch, and how the strawberries were ready to pick. Today, the weather was cooperative, so I picked the first batch of strawberries this afternoon. There were a few berries that were over ripe, and a few that the bugs had eaten holes in, but there were plenty more for me to pick. I filled up my colander before I got the first side picked, and had to get a big bowl to finish picking. I think I got a pretty good haul for my first picking. I picked all the ripe ones and all of the almost ripe ones. I figured the bugs already got enough of them, they don't start eating the berries until they're almost ripe. Here's what I got.
I had to wash the dirt off a few of them because of the rain, but it's always good to wash them anyway. Then I separated the ripe and bug damaged berries from the almost ripe berries and cut all the ripe and bug damaged berries in half to prepare them for cooking down for strawberry sauce.
After I cooked them down for a while, I have a nice strawberry sauce that I can use to make jam or just use on ice cream. I still have another bowl of berries to process in a couple days when they're more ripe.
I'm pretty sure that I'll have to pick the berries again in a few days when more of them get ripe. There's a lot of green and half ripe berries on the plants. The strawberry patch is doing really well so far this year.
Well, that's all I have for this post, I hope you enjoyed it!
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