It’s worth a try

Earlier this week we received an email from the county extension agent. They had been selling blueberry bushes and strawberries and had some left over, “did we want them?” As I have heard David say before, leveraged resources. One of our gardeners took the blueberry bushes and a few of the strawberries. What was left went home with me. Now what I know about strawberries can be summed up in, I like to eat them and I have heard it takes a few years for them to really start to produce. I also have heard that mold tends to be a problem. My solution was a planter my father mentioned when I was in high school. Now at that time, I was using a slide rule (for those a bit younger than me, they are a mechanical device that did not need charging and could be used to do all sorts of mathematical calculations),  and the smallest working computer weighed tons and took up a whole room or more. I had the plants, so now what to do? I had some scrap wood around and so I made this box from what I could remember of the planter he talked about. I just happened to have four, ten foot long 1″ X 8″‘s.  With the impending storm on the way, imagine that this year, I cut them in half and with a little scrap wood, made bands around to hold it together. I then drilled holes around the sides to insert the plants and filled it part way up with soil since I only had enough plants for the bottom half. In all likelihood, I cut it down a bit and make two from one, but as the rain started just after I got it into place, it is what it is. I’ll let you know later if it works.