Seasonal Eating

We like to try to eat with the seasons. With strawberries starting to ripen that will be no problem for a while! Despite a couple of frosts it looks like we will have a decent crop. Strawberries are a great home gardener fruit. They are relatively easy to grow and produce a nice size crop for the amount of space they use. I was hoping for a excess  of berries this year since strawberries make great wine but I don't think that is going to happen. We don't have a irrigation system and we haven't had as much rain as we could use. When you start carrying water in buckets ,only the newest transplants get as much water as they want. We are looking at several types of pumps to irrigate with but haven't found what we need yet, at least not at a price we can afford.

Peas will be ready in a day or so also. I love them fresh from the garden and eat a lot of them right on the spot. Those that do make it home get frozen. I do not care for peas that are canned. We have been having spinach salads from the garden for a couple of weeks and will have lots of lettuces soon. The radishes are very nice this year and I will put in a second planting of them and spinach today. I will put a floating row cover over those after they sprout to help keep both of these cool weather plants in the shade. Bugs of several sorts are turning into a problem early this year, especially the Colorado Potato Beetle. We are picking those by hand  now but will begin appying thuriside and diatenaceas earth this week to help control them. We would prefer that the insects do their seasonal eating elsewhere!