{"id":157,"date":"2019-05-27T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danceofchaos.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2022-09-29T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:10:40","slug":"the-strawberry-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danceofchaos.com\/de\/blogpost\/157","title":{"rendered":"The strawberry story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have become a bit of a garden person since last year. I think the latent gardening talent in <\/strike>me exploded like a volcano last year. From three half dead houseplants, I ended up having an urban jungle and most of them survived and made it to this year.<\/p>\n

Gardening has been a huge source of stress release, calmness and exercise for me this past year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that the basics were done, it was time for me to expand and build me up a vegetable garden, small balcony! never mind. I got myself two balcony vegetable pits and set to work. \"\"<\/p>\n

My vegetable patches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is just a start up experiment and I decided to include some basic garden herbs I need, some salad and my first ever strawberry experience.<\/p>\n

Strawberries sound so exotic and colorful to my eyes. Like the green flower turns into this bright shade of pink and then red, among the lush green leaves, after a rainy summer evening : there is something intoxicating about them. Not to mention, strawberries are often the ingredient of a dessert in a romantic date or the perfect side dish for that glass of wine. Imagine picking them up freshly from the leaves and eating them or using them as garnish.<\/p>\n

Funnily, once I planted the strawberry plants in my vegetable pot, I covered it to protect it from the outside chill, and I barely did anything at all. They grew real sturdy real quick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"The first lush strawberry<\/p>\n

After I planted them, I covered them with a plastic lid. It was a wise decision since the weather was quite chilly and soo. Afterwords the cold weather came back and some frost set in. Imagine my surprise when I saw the first bloom a few weeks back? I was even more happy when the blooms matured to green strawberries and they started to mature slowly. Today will be the first picking of my harvest from my garden. I feel so proud. The joy of helping to create something is so exquisite.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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