Strawberries

Last year, strawberries were the only thing I actually got to eat that I grew... and I think the kids and I shared 2 rather small ones lol - Gardening was a bit of a fail for me last year. I've learned a ton more and am definitely hoping to be more successful this year though.

And to start off, we got 15 strawberry plants!

This one shows the most perfect flower, so I figured I'd share the picture of it. And the one behind it already lost its petals and looks to be on its way to forming into a strawberry :D YAY! :p

Being prego and all, strawberries have been one of my LARGEST craving... and if these plants make it where I can go out, pick a pound of fresh strawberries and eat them all in one sitting I shall be one very happy prego lady :p 

This is another one of the plants and the bud in the middle is taking on the starts of forming into a strawberry. Color me excited :p

I had these plants all inside because of the cold weather (though I'm using todays nicer weather to work on "hardening" all of my plants. I actually took to hand pollinating the flowers to see if we could go ahead and get a start on some actual strawberries! If you look at the bud going towards the bottom that gets cut off, it is also turning into a strawberry.

Beautiful. Just beautiful. And oh lord are they going to be tastey!