My urban farm

So i nipped down to my friend Nick on the corner and grabbed a mint plant and two strawberry plants A great score for $15 and he planted them in fresh soil and away i went with my new urban farm ;)

Strawberries for all my friends!

Well actually just three - thats all that grew. They weren't the biggest or best strawberries ever grown but i grew them and they tasted pretty good to this proud father. I must admit though that after this and a few other smaller strawberries that i didnt quite harvest in time the strawberries were a bit of a flop. Im not sure if its the seasonal variation in temperature (a cold snap cut through October after an unseasonally warm September) or whether i'm just a crap farmer. Also one whole strawberry plant refused to grow any at all (i think it got its back up when i didnt water it one day- sibling rivalry i guess).

So im not sure the strawberries will provide the best return on my investment (to date anyway) - i continue to water them like the ridiculous optimist i am.

I'm minted!

Between the two recalcitrant strawberry plants lives a mint plant that has been dishing me out mint leaves for my tea ever since she arrived. Those fresh mint leaves make for the tastiest (honey infused) tea and i must have saved a wad of tea bags which = less waste and less CO2 in the air. It does take a bit of water to feed but i'm sure i'm ahead on the impact scale.

Love is in the air! (and soil)

The beauty of growing your own food is that its unpredictable and you get such a buzz when your plant friends give you unexpected love. Take this love heart shaped strawberry shown here plucked and happily waiting to fulfill its destiny for instance. i found this one tucked away in the foliage just last night and i can see more coming, could be the warmer weatherweve ben enjoying the past week, or perhaps it runs deeper and my strawberry plants love me back afterall.