Cool way to view my blog

Hey There! This is a beautiful way to view my blog (or any blogspot blog for that matter). Add /view/mosaic to the end of my url (http://greenthumbtroop.blogspot.com/view/mosaic) and you can see an artistic look back at my years of gardening! Enjoy!

Happy Spring--Strawberries and Kale

Sorry for the long hiatus away from my gardening blog--I kept thinking, "get those pictures online and then write a blog post," but today I decided to just go ahead and write a little note without any pictures.

I went into the yard this afternoon to see a bunch of beautiful red strawberries growing in my strawberry pot! I thought I would surely have to plant new strawberry plants to get a crop this year, but instead it's looking like I can just trim back some of the dead leaves and let it be. I ate one--delicious.

Also, we're having a Kale and Mustard Greens explosion. I will need to make a big pot of melted greens soon and make way for some new plants.

This year I'm also going to get a half barrel to plant some of the kinds of veg that I've been struggling to get growing because my garden is in part shade. I'm going to plan a tomato, cuke, zucchini and a green bean plant, and put it all in the sunniest place I can find on our property.

More on that and other adventures very soon, I promise!